I live in the SF Bay Area and am planning to build a luxury greenhouse in my backyard. I've checked with a local architect as well as with the city planning department, and have determined that I can build a greenhouse that is up to 40x25 feet (footprint) large with walls that range from 12 feet on the sides up to 17 feet tall at the top of the roof (an A-frame roof).
This will be a significant and commercial-grade project. I plan to grow tropical plants, making it into a botanical conservatory with rare palms, plumeria, guava, mango, etc. Because of the size of this project, I'm planning to have it professionally manufactured and assembled. The greenhouse will be fully automated, with fans, automatic vents, automatic shades, heaters, irrigation misters, nighttime lighting.
I Initially looked into Hartley Botanic, but after some research realized that they only make greenhouses that look nice but don't function well. I eventually came across Florian Greenhouse
http://www.floriangreenhouse.c... which seems to be a high quality manufacturer. I've read The Year-Round Solar Greenhouse book, but I'm going to rely on the company Florian Greenhouse to help me avoid major pitfalls of building a greenhouse, as they do this commercially.
In your opinion, what is something I should look out for when building this project? Do other commercial grade greenhouse manufacturers and builders come to mind?
