Why Pre-Engineered Steel Buildings Are a Popular Choice for Wineries, Breweries, and Distilleries

1. Climate Control

Any experienced wine or beer maker will tell you that climate control is pivotal to the quality of the wine. PEMBs are an excellent way to meet the precise temperature and humidity requirements needed to properly produce and age quality wine, beer, and liquor.

Our buildings can be customized with insulated metal roof and wall panels that significantly improve climate control and decrease energy costs. Our engineers account for critical harvest-processing details and can design refrigeration buildings that meet individual crop requirements.

We also consider ventilation, weight and volume pressures, and building capacity during the design process.

2. Open spans

Wineries, breweries, and distilleries have precise space requirements to accommodate production, tasting rooms, storage, etc. Pre-engineered buildings offered by PBS can clear span as much as 300’, maximizing the usable space with prefab construction.

We often recommend Clear Span buildings to our clients because they maximize usable space by as much as 300’, are self-supporting, and require no load-bearing walls or support columns – giving you access to plenty of unobstructed floor space for retail and tasting rooms, production areas, and barrel storage. 

3. Customizable, Aesthetically Pleasing Designs

Pacific Building Systems is renowned for its ability to design and engineer pre-engineered metal buildings that are highly customizable and aesthetically pleasing.

PBS’s in-house team of experts create custom designs tailored to fit even the most demanding specifications and requests, including placement and size of doors and windows, bracing systems, roof loads, mezzanines, equipment-storage needs, and column placement requirements specific to building use.

We also incorporate various finishing architectural interior and exterior metal wall panels and roofing systems that can be mixed with other construction elements for a functional and beautiful building that will last for generations.

4. Cost-effectiveness

There’s a reason why PBS is a preferred steel building manufacturer with many erectors and contractors in the Pacific Northwest.

We reduce construction time and save our clients’ money by implementing numerous field cost-reducing steps into each PBS pre-engineered building. We design structural connections to assemble with minimal field labor, and siding and roofing panels are pre-cut to length.

We can identify solar-efficient updates that will help you better control your energy costs. These updates will optimize your energy use, eliminate electrical waste and loss, and can even power your metal building with renewable solar energy, saving your business thousands of dollars annually on energy.

With computerized design, our clients benefit from the most cost-efficient and latest technological engineering available today, saving both time and money and ensuring the longevity and value of their investment. 

5. Durability

Though our cool climate is ideal for production, winemakers and brewmasters in the Pacific Northwest often face unpredictable weather events like summer droughts, heatwaves, wildfires, and occasional flooding.

Pre-engineered steel buildings are some of the sturdiest structures available and are designed to stand up to floods, earthquakes, blizzards, hurricanes, extreme heat, bitter cold, and other weather conditions.

On top of that, prefabricated steel buildings are resistant to corrosion and weathering and are less susceptible to damage and costly repairs resulting from maintenance nightmares that commonly plague property owners, like bore-bees, termite infestation, wood rot, mold, mildew, or other fungi growth.