Designing a compliant extraction facility is no small feat. Regardless of the scale or scope of your planned facility, designing and building an extraction facility can be very complicated. From extraction equipment selection to process flow planning to submitting permits for approval… it is essential for cannabis extraction business owners and their architects to be as familiar as possible with the planning and production processing standard operating procedures (SOP’s).
Extraction Lab Site Planning
The extraction lab site planning process is complicated and hazmat code regulations causes confusion for even the most experienced design and build teams. This can be especially difficult for business owners without an engineering or planning experiences in previous businesses. C1D1 Labs offers various services to aid extraction professionals in the facility planning and approval process.
Our Easy Approval Package (EAP) is designed to streamline planning and permitting and ensure the smooth and successful development of an extraction facility. In addition to our EAP, our clients also rely on us for mechanical, electrical, plumbing (MEP) engineering services. While both of these services are essential for achieving compliance, efficiency, safety and most importantly building permits. Before getting into the development of an extraction laboratory, it is important to understand the differences between the EAP and MEP services offered by C1D1 Labs and why we offer these services in phases.
Easy Approval Package
Our Easy Approval Package includes a hazmat design and PE fire protection report for your facility. An architect, a process engineer and a PE fire protection engineer work together to develop a floor plan, provide a list of recommended equipment, create a process flow diagram and a PE fire protection technical report. In addition to explaining your process with fire codes and calculating solvent limits, this report takes liability away from local Fire Departments and places it onto our Professional Engineer’s stamp.
The Easy Approval Package allows extraction professionals and engineers to streamline the planning, design and approval process and minimize comments from the Fire Department. This process locks in all the floating variables to a project and can save our clients hundreds of thousands of dollars by checking equipment certifications.
MEP Engineering
Mechanical, electrical, and plumbing (MEP) engineering is an essential part of planning an extraction facility. This engineering step shows the building department the engineering behind a construction. MEP engineering is tailor-made to fit the precise design, layout and physical characteristics of an extraction facility to ensure safety, compliance and maximum efficiency in your lab. Our team of MEP engineers work together to develop an engineering plan for your facility that meets the approval standards set by relevant jurisdictions and departments.
These mechanical, electrical, and plumbing plans will sometimes see comments from your plan checker. Comments are many times needed for clarification and/or revisions requested by certain departments. Our licensed architects field comments and revisions to ensure the approval of the project plan.
What’s the difference?
Our EAP and MEP services are separate and distinct in several ways. Our Easy Approval Package is a comprehensive design package that is covered by a $10,000 fee that applies to any manufacturing facility. This fee covers a facility floor plan, equipment consultation, process flow diagram and a PE fire protection technical report for a planned facility. The Easy Approval Package is designed to make sure the MEP process goes smoothly. By eliminating the hazmat concerns while designing the floor plan with extraction experts and a PE fire protection engineer, we are able to protect your plans from major design changes. Every time there is a major design change, the engineering behind the construction (MEP) will also require changes. This costs business owners time and money and can create a hamster wheel of submitting with municipalities. The Easy Approval Package is the secret sauce to making you have a smooth approval process.
The Easy Approval Package does not include the cost of MEP engineering services. The complexity of MEP engineering in an extraction lab because of Hazmat codes, and the fact that MEP must be tailor-made for individual facilities, create a very wide spectrum of engineering scope. This is why it is best to estimate project to project. If a client comes to C1D1 Labs with proper “as built designs” (these are accurate designs of the current floor plan) and proposed plan that isn’t too far off from compliance, our engineers are able to estimate a cost. It is because of the fact that MEP engineering and the scope of construction (as again, this is the engineering of that construction) varies so widely from facility to facility, it is impossible to offer this service at a flat rate. The best way to get a cost estimate is by requesting a free consultation with our team.
C1D1 MEP and EAP services
For professional C1D1 MEP engineering and Easy Approval Package services, reach out to our team. We are here to walk through every aspect of the planning and design process with you to ensure that you know exactly what to expect. Contact us to get started with a consultation and to find out more about the services we offer.