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Virginia Cannabis Facility Design

Cannabis facility design, cultivation facility design, and cannabis construction oversight for Virginia’s licensed cultivators, processors, and dispensaries — 500+ cannabis facilities delivered since 2013.

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706-573-5520  ·  Licensed to Practice in Virginia

Service Area

Virginia — Richmond · Virginia Beach · Fairfax

Design-Build Process

Grow rooms, lighting layouts, and airflow engineered before ground breaks — every CCA compliance layer built in from day one.

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VA Licensed|Richmond · Virginia Beach · Fairfax|500+ Cannabis Facilities|cGMP · CCA Compliant

Cannabis facility design, built by people who've done it 500+ times

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Licensed in Virginia

AIA, NCARB — active architecture licensure to practice in Virginia.

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500+ Facilities Since 2013

Sam Andras and Jeff Lair have led 500+ cannabis and vertically integrated cultivation projects.

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cGMP-Fluent

Cultivation, extraction/processing, and dispensary design built around cGMP and CCA compliance.

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Bridging Consultant Model

One firm from Basis of Design through cannabis construction and occupancy.

Design matched to your CCA license type

DESIGN SCOPE

Cultivation Facility Design

Canopy-compliant grow rooms, environmental controls, and security infrastructure built to pass CCA inspection.

Also called: Grow Facility Design
DESIGN SCOPE

Processing & Extraction Design

cGMP-documented extraction and manufacturing space, from solvent handling to finished-product packaging.

DESIGN SCOPE

Dispensary Design

Retail layouts that satisfy state security requirements while staying built for everyday patient access.

SEPARATE LICENSE

Testing Laboratory Design

Lab space designed around sample handling, chain-of-custody, and instrumentation requirements.

Cannabis Architect in Virginia

Cannabis architect Virginia is the search a newly licensed cultivator, processor, or dispensary operator runs the moment their Virginia Cannabis Control Authority license comes through and construction planning has to start — and 3rd Act Architecture and Consulting is a licensed Virginia architecture firm built specifically around cannabis facility design. Led by Sam Andras, AIA, NCARB, and Jeff Lair, 3rd Act has completed 500+ cannabis and vertically integrated cultivation projects since 2013, covering cultivation facility design, grow facility design, extraction and processing labs, and retail dispensary buildouts.

As cannabis architects who also manage cannabis construction through owner’s-representative and bridging-consultant delivery, 3rd Act can carry a project from the Basis of Design document through construction documents, contractor selection, and CCA compliance walkthroughs — one firm, from license to occupancy, in Richmond, Virginia Beach, Fairfax, or anywhere the CCA has approved a site.

Virginia cannabis facility design licensed architects CCA compliant

Questions Virginia operators ask first

Yes. 3rd Act is a licensed Virginia architecture firm with 500+ cannabis and cultivation facility designs completed since 2013, covering cultivation facility design, grow facility design, processing/extraction, and dispensary projects.
Today, Virginia’s only cannabis license is the vertically integrated Pharmaceutical Processor license — just 5 exist statewide, one per health service area, each covering cultivation, manufacturing, and dispensing together. 3rd Act designs that full scope for existing operators, plus any additional dispensing-only facility permits within their area. Separately, Virginia has a confirmed (though not yet certain) adult-use retail market planned to launch July 1, 2027 under a genuinely different, split license structure — 3rd Act is tracking that timeline closely and can advise on how to prepare, without overstating certainty on a date that has already shifted once.
Yes, Sam Andras holds active architecture licensure in Virginia in addition to other states where 3rd Act has completed projects.
Both. 3rd Act can serve as a bridging consultant or owner’s representative through cannabis construction, starting with a Basis of Design document and carrying the project through construction documents, contractor selection, and CCA compliance walkthroughs.

Start your Virginia cannabis facility

From cultivation facility design to dispensary buildout, one firm carries the project from license to occupancy.

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