American Indian Hall Project Featured in Architectural West Magazine With an eye on sustainability that, at the same time, honors Native American ancestral lands, Architectural West Magazine recently featured Montana State University’s American Indian Hall. The article focuses on the creative use of structural insulated panels (SIPs). Our team—Nate Menuez, Rebecca Sheetz, Austin Batson, and MaKayla Beckman—helped their client, ThinkOne Architecture, to design this new hallmark project on MSU’s campus. According to the article, SIPs are “flexible in design and used in walls, roofs, and floors to create a nearly air-impermeable building envelope.” Using this material allows the design team to optimize energy consumption andRead More →

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Redmond Airport Project Featured in Magazine Morrison-Maierle’s work for the Redmond Airport was recently featured in Airport Improvement Magazine’s September 2021 edition. Serving as the engineer of record for the Redmond Municipal Airport (RDM) in central Oregon, Morrison-Maierle’s team, led by Cory Kesler, helped create a new $14 million storage and operations building for snow removal equipment. According to the magazine article, the new building consolidates snow removal equipment from three different storage buildings and hangars as well as outdoor locations into one indoor facility with 30,000 square feet for storage alone. “The existing site ended up being constrained on too many sides,” explains CoryRead More →

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Missoula Public Library project saving energy with eco-friendly, efficient design By Renata Birkenbuel, Missoula Current – November 13, 2019 The design team behind the new Missoula Public Library looked to The 2030 Challenge when considering the new facility, and now that the building has risen on its downtown footings, its energy savings will start when the lights come on. Jon Sears, construction manager with A&E in Missoula, said the library will be “70% more efficient in energy consumption” than a comparable project. That’s “70% less energy consumed from fossil fuels when compared to the average median energy consumption of a new building in the region,”Read More →

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Broadway Island Park Project Opens to the Public By Martin Kidston, Missoula Current An effort to transform a Clark Fork River island into a natural oasis in the heart of Missoula has played out quietly over the past year. Old snags now stand above the river plain, beckoning bugs and birds. Invasive trees like elm and maple have been removed, and saplings from native species have replaced them. This is the evolving face of Missoula’s newest city park on Broadway Island. “At the time we bought it, 75% of this island was covered with nonnative species,” said Chris Behan, assistant director of the Missoula RedevelopmentRead More →

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Morrison-Maierle announces 2019-20 Board of Directors Morrison-Maierle is pleased to announce its Board of Directors for the 2019-20 term. The board includes: Debbie Johnston Debbie will serve as the Board chair for a one-year term. Debbie has been with Morrison-Maierle for 17 years and is the Industrial Market Group Leader based in the Missoula, MT office. Randy Bomar Randy is the newest addition to the Board and is Morrison-Maierle’s Wyoming Operations Manager based out of Sheridan, WY. Randy is the former President of Vista West Engineering and is a 3-year employee-owner elected to a three-year term. Kurt Keith Kurt is the Chief Client Services OfficerRead More →

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Surveyors Provide View of Solar Eclipse Morrison-Maierle’s land surveyors treated their fellow employees to an old-fashioned, land-surveyor style show of the solar eclipse. Gunnar Getchell and his crew pulled an old survey instrument (theodolite) off the shelves that they used before GPS and more modern instruments were available. Surveyors used to attach a filter to the eyepiece and take “sun shots” or “solar observations” to get accurate direction (or bearing), which were highly accurate. “If we didn’t have a filter we’d use the field book or a white piece of paper as a backdrop and record the exact time that the left, (trailing) edge ofRead More →

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MSU engineering alumni apply skills to make new engineering building a reality By Marshall Swearingen, MSU News Service BOZEMAN – As a backhoe filled around the foundation of the future Norm Asbjornson Hall at Montana State University recently, and construction workers prepped the ground floor for concrete, it was an ideal day for MSU civil engineering alumni to survey their handiwork in the building’s exposed, three-story steel structure. “A lot of innovation went into this building,” said Jay Fischer, the project manager at Morrison-Maierle, the Montana-based firm that engineered the beams, joints and other features to ensure that the structure stands up to its ownRead More →

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ASCE gives U.S. infrastructure a D+ in annual report card Every four years, the American Society of Civil Engineers’ Report Card for America’s Infrastructure depicts the condition and performance of American infrastructure in the familiar form of a school report card—assigning letter grades based on the physical condition and needed investments for improvement. This year’s report card gives our country’s infrastructure a D+. For more information, please watch the video below.Read More →

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There’s More to Infrastructure Than Meets the Eye By Rika Lashley, PE What do you think of when you hear “infrastructure?” Streets, bridges, railroads, electricity? All things we see every day – on the way to work, to school, when waiting at a railroad crossing. It is quite obvious when asphalt cracks and potholes develop and we want to call the city or county and ask them to fix it. However, there is more to infrastructure than what quite literally meets the eye. We tend to be rather oblivious to the infrastructure a few feet below the wheels of our cars: the water distribution andRead More →

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Morrison-Maierle is pleased to announce that it has acquired Billings firm Murtagh Municipal Engineering (MME). Firm principal, Pat Murtagh worked for Morrison-Maierle from 1996-1998 in the company’s Billings office. “It’s great to be back,” he said. MME started in 1999 as Montana Engineering and Administration (ME&A) and worked on water, wastewater, planning, and funding projects primarily in eastern Montana. ME&A joined with Great West in 2007 and then became MME in 2010. Their focus has been on smaller communities and initially helping them with funding sources and grant writing in order to improve their infrastructure systems. This is one of the many things that’s setRead More →

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Engineering News Record’s Mountain States (ENR) recently announced the winners of its 2015 Best Projects competition, and two Morrison-Maierle projects came out on top. The City of Great Falls Wastewater Treatment Plant won in the Water/Environment category and Jabs Hall, College of Business, Montana State University won the Higher Education/Research category. ENR Mountain States measures engineering projects in Utah, Idaho, Montana, Colorado, Wyoming, Kansas, Nebraska, North Dakota and South Dakota. A panel of eight judges from all areas of the industry—architects, GCs, consultants, academics and engineers—select winners in each of categories. 
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Morrison-Maierle was recently ranked #3 by Engineering News Record (ENR) in their Intermountain Top Design Firms list. This list covers firms in Montana, Utah, and Idaho. The firm was ranked #1 in Montana against Electrical Consultants, Inc.; Anvil Corp.; CTA Architects Engineers; and Dowl. In addition to the Montana and Intermountain categories, Morrison-Maierle’s Wyoming offices ranked #53 in the Colorado-Wyoming category and #10 in the state of Wyoming. Morrison-Maierle’s Cody office opened in 2014 and its Gillette office has been in business since 2008. In the June 2015 article, “Design Markets Show Improvement ‘Across the Board’” it states that the firms located in the mountainRead More →

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Deep Creek Weekend Bridges project featured in ASPIRE magazine One of Morrison-Maierle’s recent transportation projects was recently featured in ASPIRE, The Concrete Bridge Magazine. Co-authored by Jim Scoles of Morrison-Maierle and Kent Barnes of the Montana Department of Transportation, the article profiles the design of U.S. Highway 12 bridges at mileposts 17.3, 19.6 and 19.8. Read the article here. The Lewis & Clark Highway – also known as U.S. Highway 12 – runs along the narrow floor of Deep Creek Canyon. The 24-ft-wide, two-lane highway between Townsend and White Sulphur Springs, Montana, was constructed in the 1930s with timber bridges at eight locations where theRead More →

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