The Potential for Commercial Implementation and Operation of Aquaponic Urban Farms

该项目将建立英国第一个水培城市农场，以量化可持续城市农业的经济和环境潜力。由GrowUp（一家专门从事鱼菜共生农业的初创公司）领导，它将以创新的配置使用鱼菜共生技术，以利用水产养殖废物流与水培植物生长所需营养之间的共生关系。该财团在鱼菜共生、商业水培和循环水产养殖方面的专业知识将使他们能够在伦敦的城市地区大规模管理和调查这种关系。该项目将建立一个原型，以展示规模化的城市生产，重点是对生长系统的优化控制，为英国在当地城市可持续集约农业中的全球商业产品特许经营创造机会。联盟的合作伙伴是GrowUp Urban Farms; I+S Associates; Sterner AquaTech和Arup，包括GLA、伦敦纽汉自治市、西门子和普利茅斯大学的支持。

This project will build the UK's first aquaponic urban farm to quantify the economic and environmental potential of sustainable urban farming. Led by GrowUp - a start-up specialising in aquaponic farming - it will use aquaponics in an innovative configuration to exploit a symbiosis between wastestreams of aquaculture and nutrients required for hydroponic plant growth. The consortium's expertise in aquaponics, commercial hydroponics & recirculating aquaculture will allow them to manage and investigate this relationship at scale in an urban location in London. The project will build a prototype to demonstrate scaled urban production, focused on optimised control of growing systems, creating an opportunity for the franchise of a UK global commercial offering in local, urban sustainable intensified agriculture. Consortium partners are GrowUp Urban Farms; I+S Associates; Sterner AquaTech and Arup, including support from the GLA, the London Borough of Newham, Siemens and Plymouth University.