american indian hall montana state university

American Indian Hall Morrison-Maierle worked with ThinkOne, a local Bozeman architect, to perform the structural design and site civil design for this unique building located on the Malone Centennial Mall at MSU. This $20M, 31,000 sq. ft. building was funded through donor gifts. It is the first in Montana to obtain LEED Platinum v4 status (video below), earning all three points in the structural materials category plus one additional point for exemplary structural performance. The building system is a combination of wood and steel, and there were several unique architectural features including a curved monumental staircase, curved canopies, a drum room, and a 140 ft.Read 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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Bozeman Safeway As an example of their commitment to sustainability, Safeway has built a new store in Bozeman, Montana, to US Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design LEED specifications.  Safeway incorporated sustainability measures into the Bozeman store, focusing on stormwater management, refrigeration techniques, using appropriate and sustainable landscaping, limiting water consumption in its store design standards and re-using and recycling building materials. Morrison-Maierle was part of the design team on the new $12 million, 59,870-square-foot Safeway grocery store and 2,933-square-foot retail shell. We were involved in the site entitlement process, site civil design, environmental permitting, site electrical design, and traffic engineering.  Site design includedRead More →

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