Middle East
Food security budgets, the hottest design days and the largest cooling loads we engineer for.
Gulf and Levant projects are funded by policy as much as by markets, and they run on the hardest climate conditions in the portfolio: high radiation, scarce water and coastal humidity that defeats evaporative cooling.
Saudi Arabia
Cooling is the project here. Evaporative works inland where the air is dry; coastal sites need mechanical dehumidification or a hybrid.
United Arab Emirates
Coastal humidity is the constraint: evaporative cooling adds moisture to air that is already saturated. Mechanical cooling with dehumidification is the default on the coast.
Qatar
Short winter season: design for October to April production and accept a summer maintenance window, or invest in full closed cooling.
Oman
The Batinah coast behaves like a humid site; the interior behaves like a dry one. Do not copy a design across the two.
Kuwait
Evaporative cooling has strong potential in dry inland air, but the design day is brutal: shade first, then cooling capacity.
Jordan
Water, not heat, is the constraint: closed substrate systems with drainage recovery carry the business case.
Market data used on these pages
Commercial greenhouse spend of about USD 43.0 billion in 2025, forecast to USD 89.6 billion by 2034 at roughly 8.5 % a year; Middle East and Africa the fastest-growing region at about 11.5 %. About 4.09 million hectares of greenhouses worldwide, of which only about 65,000 ha are high-tech.
Sources: Dataintelo, Commercial Greenhouse Market 2025-2034 · RaboResearch, world greenhouse area update 2025 (via Dataintelo). Figures are third-party market data, quoted for context, not forecasts for your project.
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