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YEAR IN REVIEW 2019 Connections 2 MORRISON-MAIERLE | 2019 YEAR IN REVIEW 3 PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE CONTENTS Last year Morrison-Maierle’s employee-owners worked together to strengthen their 4 Close Connections AIRPORTS MARKET GROUP connections with their clients, communities and each other. This report highlights many of those About Us connections and offers a glimpse of our plans for 2020 as we celebrate our 75th anniversary. Founded in 1945, 6 Building Better Communities BUILDINGS MARKET GROUP Connections with our clients Morrison-Maierle is an employee-owned In service to, and in partnership with our clients, we delivered many exceptional and award- company with 12 offices winning projects. We focused on delivering results that met our client’s needs while making our 8 2019 Charitable Giving throughout Montana, communities better places to be. Many times, these projects used capabilities and expertise from Wyoming, Oregon employee-owners throughout our offices and market groups. We have seen time and again how our and Washington. As a commitment to partnering delivers excellent results and strengthens client relationships. 9 Employee Ownership multi-disciplinary firm, In 2019 we also launched our client trends initiative. As part of this effort, we interviewed nearly 60 we provide services in Scott Murphy is the President and CEO of Morrison-Maierle. clients and partners about their organization’s future opportunities and challenges. Their input will engineering, surveying, 10 All Hands on Deck DEVELOPMENT MARKET GROUP help us plan and anticipate future demands. I am grateful for their willingness to participate. planning and natural sciences. We are ranked We also solicited input from more than 70 clients who gave us feedback about our performance among the Engineering INDUSTRIAL MARKET GROUP as a company. These two critical sources of input, combined with industry trends, will deepen our 12 Golden Opportunity News Record’s (ENR) “Top connections with clients going forward. 500 Design Firms” in the United States and Canada. Connections with our communities 14 Connecting with our Communities Morrison-Maierle Systems I am proud to work with a company that also invests in its communities. More importantly, I appreciate was founded in 1982 and the countless hours our employee-owners contribute to making communities safer, healthier and provides IT solutions NATURAL RESOURCES MARKET GROUP more vibrant. These connections are not always as easy to see but speak to a broader significance 16 Powered by Nature for municipalities and of what it means to build better communities. businesses throughout Montana. Connections with each other 18 Better Together SURVEY MARKET GROUP We are bound by our common Core Purpose: We create solutions that build better communities. At the center of our Core Purpose lies our Core Values: Integrity, Respect, Commitment and 20 Hall of Famer Excellence. Every week I see examples and hear stories about my fellow employee-owners living our Core Values. Thank you all for continuing to work and live by our Core Purpose and Core Values. Connections in 2020 and beyond 21 Expansions Six years ago, our Vision 2020 plan set sights on our future. Looking back, I am amazed at our accomplishments including our transition to 100% ESOP ownership in 2016. At the heart of Vision 22 It Still Has the Thrill TRANSPORTATION MARKET GROUP 2020 we described “an unwavering commitment to our employee-ownership structure and culture.” With this declaration comes continuous re-tooling. Therefore, in 2020—our 75th anniversary—we will introduce, evaluate and finalize our vision for beyond 2020. 24 First in Class WATER/WASTEWATER MARKET GROUP I am humbled and thankful to work with, and for, my Morrison-Maierle employee-owner colleagues. 26 Top-Notch Service MORRISON-MAIERLE SYSTEMS 4 MORRISON-MAIERLE | 2019 YEAR IN REVIEW 5 CLOSE CONNECTIONS AIRPORTS MARKET GROUP | Terminal rehab projects involve expertise from both the Airports and Buildings Market Groups Airports are natural connectors between communities. In 2019, Morrison-Maierle's Airports Market Group continued their work to enhance these connections through a wide range of projects. In addition to master planning, taxiway realignments, Missoula runway reconstructions, parking lot designs, hangar and Missoula International Airport’s new $72M terminal apron designs, Morrison-Maierle's Airports group had a project includes a baggage claim, jet bridges, security number of terminal projects on its slate in 2019. screening, and a larger restaurant, bar and concession area beyond the security checkpoint as well as space for Billings future tenants. Billings Logan International Airport began a four-year, $55M remodeling project that started with the expansion Sheridan of its two concourses from five gates to eight. A café, gift Sheridan County Airport’s expansion and remodel project shop, bar and a “great room” were also added. adds nearly 4,000 square feet to the existing terminal. New features include a larger waiting area past security, Bozeman additional restrooms and an expanded TSA area. Bozeman-Yellowstone International Airport’s terminal Top: Work continues on Missoula International Airport's expansion project added approximately 70,000 square West Yellowstone terminal expansion project. Above: An architectural feet to the concourse and will provide four additional rendering shows the design for a four-year terminal A project in its early stages, the Airports team conducted expansion project at Billings Logan International Airport. gates, a third food and beverage location inside the area and environmental studies for an upcoming terminal Left: Helena's new terminal expansion includes Cross security area, additional retail options and space for Laminated Timber (CLT) that serves as both an architectural project. asset and a structural system. an expanded baggage handling area. Additionally, an 1,100-stall covered parking garage opened in July. Helena Our Work Heads West The Making of Champions Helena Regional Airport’s three-phase terminal Morrison-Maierle's Airports Market Group has worked Garrett Schultz, far left in the second row, likes expansion includes a larger space for passenger boarding in the Bend-Redmond, Oregon area for a number to stay busy. In addition to working as a full-time operations, a second-floor passenger waiting area with of years. This work continued in 2019 with a runway airport engineer, Schultz is the Director of Baseball full amenities and airline gates, an improved passenger reconstruction project. In addition to our work in and Head Coach of Bozeman’s AA Baseball team, the ramp, and a remodelled TSA screening area. Oregon, we expanded into the Washington market with Bozeman Bucks. 2019 was an especially rewarding a taxiway project for the general aviation runway and year, with Garrett and the Bucks winning the Montana parking lot design at Spokane International Airport. championship—the Bucks' first since 2007—and a berth in the American Legion Northwest Region tournament. 6 MORRISON-MAIERLE | 2019 YEAR IN REVIEW 7 BUILDING BETTER COMMUNITIES BUILDINGS MARKET GROUP | Connecting with our partners to meet community infrastructure needs results in excellence awards New Faces Bring New Expertise to Buildings Group We are thrilled to offer two new services to our Buildings Market Group clients. CLIENT Central Valley Fire Station Pete Weber, left, joined our team ThinkOne in April 2019 and has more than two Architecture Sixty-three years ago, a group of citizens volunteered their time to erect a decades of experience in Information and building that would eventually house the Central Valley Fire District, Station 1, in Communications Technology (ICT) design. OWNER Belgrade. Facing the need to upgrade the facility, Central Valley’s leadership turned Pete is a Registered Communications Central Valley to Morrison-Maierle. We created a seismically-sound facility and sourced construction Distribution Designer (RCDD) who helps Fire District materials from local suppliers and tradespeople. The station also features a first- integrate ICT into the design of buildings. in-the-country decontamination station that protects our first-responders from the When clients want their wireless internet, COMMUNITY cancer-causing toxins found in many fires. This project received top honors in the electronic safety and security, and voice Belgrade, Mont. Structural Systems category at the ACEC Montana Engineering Excellence Awards. data systems—to name a few— seamlessly integrated with the design and function of a new building, Pete and his team can get it done. His top advice for those planning CLIENT Flathead High School Expansion a new building in 2020? Plan ahead! He Kalispell says design teams should incorporate the Public Schools Flathead County and its communities are some of Montana’s fastest growing design of ICT systems into the earliest plan by population. As the number of full-time residents increases, so does the need to sets to avoid later complications. OWNER accommodate a growing student-body. In response to this growth, Flathead High We’re also excited about the addition of Kalispell School needed to build a new gym and expand its learning spaces. Morrison-Maierle Top: Central Valley Fire Station has gained national Public Schools served as the prime design consultant and engineering team. TJ Jones, right, to our team. TJ is a fire attention as it is home to the first decontamination Buildings in Billings protection designer who incorporates fire The design
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