PharmaCann Expands Medical Marijuana Facility in Orange
Wagner believes that relationship has made all the difference in terms of managing timelines, delivering on expectations and delivering on the quality of work, especially through COVID. Holt officially broke ground in June. Expectations are to
a result of the pandemic and the regulations tied to the
have the construction project completed by the fall
medical marijuana industry.
of 2022.
“Everything from foam insulation to metal steel studs,
The project, just under a total of 50,000 square feet, calls
you name it, electrical equipment, everything has been
for a complete renovation of PharmaCann’s existing
delayed and the dates keep changing so it’s like trying to hit
facility as well as tripling the greenhouse capacity for
a moving target. It’s why we try to do as much as we can,
growing. It will finish construction on a greenhouse that
when we can, and look forward to precuring more of the
was partially erected in the first round of construction on
materials that we need. Luckily in this job there are multiple
the site about six years ago and add a third indoor grow
phases and some of them will overlap,” said Chippa.
to the rear of the facility, bringing it to about three acres total for cultivation capacity and a complete renovation to bring the headhouse processing areas to good manufac-
Chippa said there are about 130 trade members working on the project running multiple shifts.
turing practices (GMP) food processing pharmaceutical
He added, “We had to early on identify things that could
processing standards.
have been 30 weeks out and we only had 15 weeks. OK,
Christopher Chippa, Project Manager on the site and a Senior Project Manager at Holt said that extensive lead times had to be made in both manpower and materials as
we’ve got to get that transformer ordered now, we’ve got to communicate with Central Hudson now, deal with all those things so lead times get absorbed. You have to get ahead of it before the project starts.”
Phillip Wagner, Operations Manager for PharmaCann
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