"The Vertical Farm: Towards a new building typology"

​The Advanced Plant Growth Centre (APGC) has announced the next in a series of seminars running the length of 2025 - "The Vertical Farm: Towards a new building typology". The seminar will be presented by Dr. Daniel Podmirseg (CEO, Vertical Farm Institute), hosted online and in-person at the Crop Innovation Centre, Invergowrie.

Summary
Today's food supply chain is a complex global network, interconnected by energy-intensive transportation, storage, refrigeration, and processing systems. These elements account for 30% of total primary energy supply (TPES) and a similar percentage of CO₂eq greenhouse gas emissions.

The significant resource consumption of conventional agriculture and the complexity of the global food supply chain underpin the concept of the vertical farm, if defined as the building typology of the 21st century. As a structural component of urban systems, vertical farms offer the potential to close material and energy loops, becoming exemplars of the circular economy. This approach preserves natural resources and strengthens urban sub-economic networks. Why do we struggle to accept that hyper-local food production contributes to disburden an impressive list of exacerbating problems?

The seminar will take place on Tuesday, March 18, from 13:00 - 14:30 pm GMT, at The Auditorium within the Crop Innovation Centre, The James Hutton Institute.

For more information and to register for the seminar, you can click here.