In 2026 UK greenhouse specialist CambridgeHOK will celebrate 70 years in business.
In a post on social media the company said, ‘We’re thrilled to say we have an exciting programme of works, for a wide variety of customers, emerging for the next two years. In 2025 we were delighted to further enhance our reputation as hi-tech horticultural innovators and leading indoor growing specialists, whilst also laying the foundations for more success.’
“CambridgeHOK will this year mark 70 years in business having further enhanced its reputation as hi-tech horticultural innovators and leading indoor growing specialists in 2025 – whilst also laying the foundations for more success in the years to come,” commented joint Managing Director Patrick Harte, who says the firm has been ‘privileged to be involved in many flagship projects’ over the past 12 months, in its long-established areas of expertise of commercial glasshouses and vertical farms.
The past year has seen growth across the company’s specialist refrigeration, service and maintenance divisions, and ‘an exciting programme of works, for a wide variety of customers, is emerging for the next two years.’
One highlight of 2025 was the design and build of the UK’s first solely renewable glasshouse at the University of Lincoln, which powered entirely by geothermal energy through ground source and air heat pumps. The £2.2m Venlo facility has been divided into independently controlled compartments to allow multiple projects to run at the same time and will provide stable heat all-year round to allow crops such as strawberries and tomatoes, which are typically imported from abroad during the UK’s colder months, to be grown locally.
CambridgeHOK is also active in the vertical farming sector and has led the technical side of projects which have seen sustainable food growth brought into the heart of work and leisure spaces in the capital.
Working with Harvest London, the CambridgeHOK team built a 400 sq. m. facility which has become a focal point of the new Corner Corner development in Canada Water, in London’s Docklands, bringing food, culture, live music and sustainable farming together. It also completed a 135 sq. m. facility in London for Square Mile Farms in the centre of a large business commercial complex, where fresh, leafy greens and herbs are sustainably grown for the building occupiers, visitors to the onsite restaurant and local community groups.
CambridgeHOK also demonstrated its ability to overcome the logistical challenges of building a four-storey glasshouse at the top of new ‘first-of-its-kind’ urban living development in Swansea. The 300 sq. m. glasshouse was installed on floors 8 to 11 of the new 12-storey ‘Biophilic Living’ complex for Hacer Developments.
