Controlled Environments & Greenhouses

At Agro Resilience Kit (ARK), we empower entrepreneurs, organizations, and communities with cutting-edge solutions for sustainable food and energy production. By integrating airtight controlled environment buildings, renewable energy systems, and modular components, we design resilient, self-sufficient operations to meet the challenges of modern agriculture.

Key performance highlights:

• Sprung Structures + ARK: superior airtightness and translucence (better than glass for passive solar gain) deliver cost-effective construction and ongoing operations.
• Cogeneration: third-party assessed savings of $189,645 in one year at Sprung's 150,000+ sq ft headquarters. Typical paybacks under 5 years and ~20% returns. ARK personnel have led more sub-1 MW cogeneration installations in Western Canada than any other team.
• Proprietary cooling (patent shared with McGill University): cools a 4,200 sq ft greenhouse 20°C below ambient using less than 2 kW.
• Aquaponics: converts feed to protein at ~1.5:1 while virtually eliminating fertilizer cost and adding a second revenue stream from fish.
• Vertical growing: moves from ~4,500 plants per 1/10 acre (field) to more than 15,000 plants in the same footprint — without competing with traditional vine-crop greenhouse operators. An example of how it all comes together: