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The Evenstad Horticulture Campus at Naples Botanical Garden is a new growing facility that promotes the Garden’s development of nature-based environmental solutions, expands its collections of tropical and subtropical plants, and enhances its 170 acres of cultivated gardens and native habitat. This new greenhouse complex consists of a 10,000-square-foot shade house, a 4,300-square-foot propagation house, a greenhouse spread out over two buildings totaling 6,400 square feet, and a 1,000-square-foot potting house. The state-of-the-art growing facility will grow tropical and subtropical plants to enhance the 170-acre main garden campus and serve as a regional resource for plant science and conservation. It also will house the Garden’s seed bank, which currently stores more than 200,000 seeds from Southwest Florida and the Caribbean for restoration projects and long-term genetic preservation. Included in the project are a pre-engineered metal building office and maintenance shop, a pole barn, a sun nursery, two emergency generators, new electrical service, and a new reverse osmosis system. Several of the buildings have water collection tanks that feed into the reverse osmosis system to recycle rainwater for irrigation.
The Naples Botanical Garden staff procured and installed all the landscaping associated with the Evenstad Campus project.
The target market is unique as there is only one Botanical Garden in Naples. Our firm has extensive project experience with the Naples Botanical Garden and other botanical gardens across the country.
The unusual constraints for the Evenstad Horticultural Campus was two-fold –
• The project site was full of vegetation waste, not suitable for buildings in its current state, which meant that each building pad location had to be stabilized by excavating ten feet deep, removing unstable material, and filling the excavated area with stone.
• Each of the buildings was built with different types of structures. The Orchid Houses, Propagation House, and Open-Air Structure were designed and constructed of concrete, aluminum, and glass. The Maintenance Building, Shop, Pole Barn, and Potting Shed were designed and constructed with concrete, CMU, and pre-engineered metal. The Reverse Osmosis / Generator Structure and Open-Air Structure were designed and constructed with concrete and structural steel. The Irrigation Structure and Bedding Area was designed and constructed with concrete and wood.
The project’s objectives and mission were to build a world-class facility. The entire Naples community is excited about this addition to the garden. This was demonstrated at the standing-room-only dedication for this project.
