Before you build, the most useful question is whether to build what you think you're building

A new facility is usually delivered as a turnkey package — one supplier pulling the whole thing together, structure, heating, controls, screens and irrigation, and handing it over complete. Done well, that integration is a real strength. But it means the entire shape of the project — including whether a glasshouse is even the right structure for what you're trying to grow, or whether a polytunnel or polystructure would suit the requirement and the budget better — gets decided inside the package, by the company that profits from the answer.

That question rarely gets asked openly, because the person best placed to answer it is rarely independent of the product or structure type being proposed.

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Independent advice is worth most before anything is specified

The most expensive, least reversible decisions on a new facility get made before a single panel goes up — and they're usually made on the advice of whoever's hoping to supply the build. That's the costliest moment to take advice from someone with a stake in the answer.

We come at that moment independent of any manufacturer, product range or preferred structure type. We'll tell you straight which structure actually suits what you're trying to grow — a glasshouse, a polytunnel, or a polystructure — driven by your requirement and your budget rather than by what we'd most like to build. If glass isn't the right answer, we'll say so. If the right answer is something we don't build, we'll tell you that too.

That the works can then be delivered through us is a convenience, not the reason for the advice — and if we later quote to build it, that's a separate decision for you. The advice comes first, and it stands on its own.

 

 

 

 

From decision to delivery

Wherever the right answer lands — glasshouse, polytunnel or polystructure — we can take it from there. Once the structure and the approach are settled, we can move into specification and coordinated delivery: the whole project run through us as a single point of contact, drawing on trusted specialist contractors, with what gets installed driven by the facility rather than a product range we're tied to.

 Or, if you'd rather take it to tender, we can give you an independent brief that defines what you actually need — so you're comparing suppliers against your requirement, not against whichever one wrote the specification. And if the works go to another supplier, we can stay on as your project adviser to make sure what's delivered holds to what was agreed.

Advice first. Delivery where it suits you. Independence the whole way through.

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Who this is for 

Organisations planning a new glasshouse, growing facility or expansion, who want independent input before a supplier shapes the brief.

Anyone weighing structure types — glasshouse, polytunnel or polystructure — who wants an honest read on what actually suits the requirement.

 

Projects where the new facility has to integrate with existing structures, services or site constraints.

Capital projects where getting the early decisions right matters more than getting to tender quickly.

Byron has been involved in glasshouse facilities from design through to handover, and has then maintained facilities of this kind for years afterwards — among them the RHS Wisley canopy structure, the NIAB Research Glasshouse, and the hydroponic glasshouse at The Newt in Somerset. BM Greenhouses is the new company that judgement now runs through. That combination — Byron's years across design and long-term upkeep, applied independently — is what informs the advice at the planning stage.