Premier SIPS is thrilled to have been part of the energy-efficient, award-winning Aspen Distillery project in Colorado. Featured on Forbes.com, this distillery is now the world’s largest carbon-negative distillery, achieving green certification goals with the help of Structural Insulated Panels, SIPS. Premier's offsite panelized construction enabled long-term energy efficiency, total net positive energy operations, and full electrification, playing a crucial role in the project’s design, construction, and carbon-negative operation. Here are the primary benefits of choosing SIPs for this remarkable project:
1. The Embodied Carbon Footprint Imperative strives to minimize a project’s carbon footprint – the carbon that is associated with the materials used to construct the building. To meet this Imperative, the design-build team incorporated carbon reduction strategies early in the project’s design phase. Choosing SIPS in the wood framing and as the primary structural element was critical because it has one-sixth of the embodied carbon of steel or concrete.
2. In addition, the Imperative aims to offset the environmental impact of the project’s construction process. Reducing jobsite waste is a well known benefit of SIPS offsite construction methods.
Learn more about sustainable design aspects of this project here.
Location: Aspen Distillers, CO
SIPS Used: 10” Roof
Architect: Anderson Mason Dale Architects
Builder: RWI Construction
Originally written by Brad Japhe and posted on Forbes.com
Aspen Vodka was founded in 2021 and has been a hit with craft-loving locals in its eponymous hometown ever since. But now it's ready to bring its award-winning product to a larger market across the United States. And it’s doing so with an unprecedented degree of sustainability. Today, the distillery announces that it’s the first in the world to be awarded a LEEDv4 BD+C Platinum certification—the highest standard for building energy efficiency by the U.S. Green Building Council.
In order to affect all that in wholly environmentally-friendly fashion, the 18,000-square-foot operation relies on offsite renewable solar and battery storage to create more energy than it consumes. Specifically, 105% of necessary electricity is supplied by this combination of infrastructure. Furthermore, over half of the campus’s eight acre footprint is reserved for regenerative agriculture, providing local sourcing for both culinary partners in Aspen and guests at the tasting room.
Aspen Vodka also partners with a cutting edge industrial wastewater company called Aquacycl to implement its “BioClectrochemical Treatment Technology.” It allows run-off from distillation to be treated onsite without carbon emissions, before being returned to the neighboring Roaring Fork River.
"We are incredibly proud to lead the industry with our ambitious and innovative environmental practices,” said Aspen Vodka founder Matthew Patel of the new certification. “Producing a luxury vodka with unrivaled quality, at the world's cleanest distillery sets a new benchmark for sustainability.”