Farnek in deal to set up rooftop vertical garden
01 December 2020
UAE-based smart and green facilities management company Farnek said it has signed a contract with Dutch green-tech projects specialist developer Urban Ponics to design and help create a 240-sq-m rooftop vertical garden at Farnek Village, its brand new staff accommodation centre in Dubai South.
Dominating the rooftop garden will be a 200-sq-m ‘shade house’, a structure which provides a mix of shade and light to create suitable conditions for shade-loving plants, said Farnek.
Urban Ponics will transport this in parts from Holland to Dubai and, together with Farnek’s in-house engineering team, will assemble the metal tube framework for the 3-m-high structure onsite. It will come complete with shade netting, grow pods, lava buckets, misters, pumps, water tanks, irrigation and drainage pipes, it stated.
The garden, which will be complete in mid-January 2021, will be used to produce leafy greens such as lettuce, kale, and spinach, as well as tomatoes, cucumbers, eggplants, capsicums and chillis.
The first harvest should be ready in around six weeks from seeding and will be used in Farnek’s own kitchens and promises to be cleaner, tastier and more nutritious, than ordinary salad plants.
Farnek decided to embrace this novel concept, not only to repurpose the bare concreted space on the Village roof, but to grow fresh vegetables and other produce for its 5,000 staff, living at the Dh200-million ($54.4 million) complex, said its top official.
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