diff --git a/.github/workflows/actions.yml b/.github/workflows/actions.yml
index 850821aa..2ec8436d 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/actions.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/actions.yml
@@ -29,6 +29,33 @@ jobs:
     - name: Upload coverage reports to Codecov
       uses: codecov/codecov-action@v3
 
+  conda-build:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    defaults:
+      run:
+        shell: bash -l {0}
+    steps:
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+    - uses: conda-incubator/setup-miniconda@v2
+      with:
+        auto-update-conda: true
+        mamba-version: "*"
+        environment-file: environment.yml
+    - name: Build python wheel
+      run: |
+        conda activate shiver
+        python -m build --wheel --no-isolation
+        check-wheel-contents dist/shiver-*.whl
+    - name: Build conda library
+      shell: bash -l {0}
+      run: |
+        # set up environment
+        cd conda.recipe
+        echo "versioningit $(versioningit ../)"
+        # build the package
+        VERSION=$(versioningit ../) conda mambabuild --output-folder . .
+        conda verify noarch/shiver*.tar.bz2
+
   trigger-deploy:
     runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
     needs: [tests]
diff --git a/.pre-commit-config.yaml b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
index 90dc8484..8d213471 100644
--- a/.pre-commit-config.yaml
+++ b/.pre-commit-config.yaml
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-exclude: "DGS_SC_scripts/.*|.*\\.mat$"
+exclude: "setup.*|DGS_SC_scripts/.*|.*\\.mat$"
 
 ci:
     skip: [pylint]
diff --git a/conda.recipe/meta.yaml b/conda.recipe/meta.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e46ebf8b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/conda.recipe/meta.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+# load information from setup.cfg/setup.py
+{% set data = load_setup_py_data() %}
+{% set license = data.get('license') %}
+{% set description = data.get('description') %}
+{% set url = data.get('url') %}
+# this will get the version set by environment variable
+{% set version = environ.get('VERSION') %}
+{% set version_number = environ.get('GIT_DESCRIBE_NUMBER', '0') | string %}
+
+
+package:
+  name: shiver
+  version: {{ version_number }}
+
+source:
+  path: ..
+
+build:
+  noarch: python
+  linux-64: python
+  number: {{ version_number }}
+  string: py{{py}}
+  script: {{ PYTHON }} -m pip install . --no-deps --ignore-installed -vvv
+
+requirements:
+  host:
+    - python
+    - versioningit
+
+  build:
+    - setuptools
+    - versioningit
+    - mantidworkbench
+    - qtpy
+    - pytest
+
+  run:
+    - mantidworkbench
+
+about:
+  home: {{ url }}
+  license: {{ license }}
+  license_family: GPL
+  license_file: ../LICENSE
+  summary: {{ description }}
diff --git a/environment.yml b/environment.yml
index 80a479a6..65f40d6f 100644
--- a/environment.yml
+++ b/environment.yml
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ channels:
  - conda-forge
  - mantid/label/nightly
 dependencies:
+ - boa
+ - conda-build
  - mantidworkbench
  - pre-commit
  - versioningit
@@ -10,6 +12,9 @@ dependencies:
  - pytest=7.2.1
  - pytest-qt=4.2.0
  - pytest-cov=4.0.0
+ - python-build
  - pip
  - pip:
+   - check-wheel-contents
+   - setuptools==47.0.0
    - https://oncat.ornl.gov/packages/pyoncat-1.4.1-py3-none-any.whl
diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..4875c611
--- /dev/null
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -0,0 +1,75 @@
+[metadata]
+name = shiver
+version = 0.0.1
+distance = 0
+description = Spectroscopy Histogram Visualizer for Event Reduction
+long_description = file: README.md, LICENSE
+long_description_content_type = text/markdown
+url = https://github.com/neutrons/Shiver/
+license = GPL3.0
+
+[options]
+package_dir =
+    =src
+include_package_data = True
+packages = find:
+python_requires >= 3.8
+install_requires =
+    mantidworkbench
+    pyoncat == 1.4.1
+    qtpy
+tests_require =
+    pylint
+    flake8
+    black
+    mypy
+    pytest
+    mock
+
+[options.entry_points]
+console_scripts =
+    shiver = shiver.__init__:main
+
+[options.packages.find]
+where =
+    src
+exclude =
+    tests*
+    DGS_SC_scripts*
+
+[options.package_data]
+* =
+   *.txt
+   *.yml
+   *.yaml
+   *.ini
+
+[options.extras_require]
+dev =
+    versioningit
+tests = pytest
+
+[flake8]
+max-line-length = 120
+ignore = E203, W503
+exclude = conda.recipe/meta.yml
+
+[versioning]
+source-version-file = shiver/_version.py
+version-pattern = {tag}
+commit-message-pattern = {raw}
+tag-message-pattern = {raw}
+
+[coverage:run]
+source = src/shiver
+omit =
+    */tests/*
+    conda.recipe/*
+    docs/*
+    DGS_SC_scripts/*
+
+[coverage:report]
+ # temp set low until project is more developed, default 60
+fail_under = 1
+exclude_lines =
+  if __name__ == "__main__":
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..789e35d1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+# this file is necessary so conda can read the contents of setup.cfg using
+# its load_setup_py_data function
+from setuptools import setup
+from versioningit import get_cmdclasses
+
+setup(cmdclass=get_cmdclasses())