New Belgium Brewing has earned a trifecta of LEED® certifications on all three of their Asheville facilities: Liquid Center tasting room (Platinum), Brewery (Gold), and Distribution Center (Silver).
A number of innovative features are incorporated into the design of each facility, including: an urban brownfield reclamation, repurposed materials from deconstructed buildings, LED lighting, high efficiency cooling and distributed heating and cooling, solar hot water and photovoltaics (PV), natural ventilation, storm water Best Management Practices and brewing process recovery, and HVAC and process heat recovery.
“Healthy buildings are becoming the norm, good for the people who use them, the environment, and our business’ triple bottom line,” says Bethany Beers, New Belgium Building and Energy Engineer. “Our Asheville campus showcases thoughtful and efficient design, and honors the natural resources that we depend upon to make our product.”
LEED®, or Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design™, is a third-party certification program from the U.S. Green Building Council® that recognizes best-in-class building design, construction and operation strategies. A project receives a certification level depending upon the number of points achieved: certified, silver, gold or platinum.
Perkins+Will (North Carolina), Adolfson & Peterson Construction (Colorado), Equinox (Asheville), and Russell + Mills Studios (Colorado) were New Belgium’s design and construction partners for the Liquid Center and the Brewery. Finkle Williams Architecture (Kansas), ARCO National Construction – Beverage Group (Missouri), and Equinox (North Carolina) were their Distribution Center partners.