Make a detailed greenhouse layout drawing

Scope

A well-established grower in Westland, the Netherlands has an existing greenhouse where they rent out smaller greenhouse sections to other growers who want to do crop trials.

I find this a clever idea because, as an entrepreneurial grower, you want to innovate. But if you try something and it does not work, you don’t want it to affect your whole money-making greenhouse.

Over the years, this grower made several modifications to its greenhouse after client requests.

A glass wall added there.

An office space added there.

A storage area removed.

3 greenhouse section merged into 1 big space.

But when changes were completed in the greenhouse, the layout drawing that workers were using to explain the facility to potential trial clients stayed unchanged.

Square meters to rent were hard to calculate and there was a lot of confusion.

Also, when greenhouse builders were asked to make a modification, they had to come on-site every time to take measurements of the existing greenhouse, which slowed down the whole process.

So they asked me to design a detailed new up-to-date greenhouse layout drawing.

I did and I went to site to measure up the whole greenhouse including departments and steel structure. I straight away put it into AutoCAD 2D so no note block used.

The grower received a detailed and professional PDF and DWG file of their current greenhouse after. They were super pleased with the result, which was super rewarding!

Project information

Head contractor: Madeway

Location: Westland, Netherlands

System type: Greenhouse Structure

Area: 2 Hectares

My role: CAD Designer

Digital tools used: AutoCAD 2D for Layout drawings

Photos

Me measuring up the sliding door in the greenhouse.

Example layout drawing how it approximately looked like (not actual drawing).