Facilities

NIAB’s Innovation Farm visitor facilities currently include:

• Field and glasshouse exhibits
  • Field plots with a huge range of crops and features
  • Glasshouse facility featuring additional inside crop/plant growth areas
• A dedicated Visitor Centre based in NIAB’s main building
  • Conference and meeting facilities for up to 60 people
  • Additional rooms for permanent and temporary exhibits and themed events

Visitor facilities from 2012

Plans are in progress for the development of a new visitor centre for NIAB Innovation Farm at NIAB’s MacLeod Complex. The modern, exciting and progressive design will be the perfect venue for exhibitions, lectures, seminars and workshop for up to 100 people and a base for field and glasshouse demonstrations.

The building will be sustainable using carbon neutral construction material including timber, straw, and wool. The Centre will generate as much energy as it uses – targeting a BREEAM rating of ‘outstanding’ and an ‘A’ rated energy performance certificate.