Year in Review 2019

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.

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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 called for the demolition of the old gym, the “half-floor” classrooms and station in the U.S. Above: COMMUNITY Jill Cook, Operations Manager, center, protection systems into the construction Our clients, partners, school the lecture hall to create a new gym, locker rooms, eight new classrooms, classroom of new facilities. Just like ICT, planning for Kalispell, Mont. staff and students gathered welcomed Jeff Kraft, PE, Ryan Thomson, PE, breakout spaces and restrooms. The new and existing buildings are isolated from to celebrate the opening Terry Jiracek and Chris Lord to our Buildings fire protection systems is a job better done one another with a 10-inch gap to allow for seismic shift and fire protection. of the new Flathead High School project. team in 2019 (pictured from left to right). The early in the design process.

Our design and project management resulted in a nearly $900,000 cost savings four are in our Billings office and have formed the for the client. This project earned the top honor in the ACEC Montana Engineering office’s Buildings Market Group. They spent the Excellence Award in the Building/Technology Systems category. later part of 2019 connecting with communities and clients in both Montana and Wyoming. 8 MORRISON-MAIERLE | 2019 YEAR IN REVIEW

WE'VE GOT YOUR BACK Community support is something Morrison-Maierle is passionate about

WE'RE INVESTED IN US TOO As an employee-owned company, Morrison-Maierle employees become APPROX. fully vested after six years of service. Here's our list of employee-owners $245,900 who moved into a new level of ownership in 2019: 7.2% of INCOME 6-11 YEARS 12-17 YEARS 18-23 YEARS

Bryan Brown Arian Bloomfield Molly Davidson

Luke Carlson Mike Brennan Marty Gagnon

Cody Farley Jill Cook Heather Mosser

Matt Hein Dave Dewitt Matt Pool

Cooper Krause Sue Dugan Jeff Roe

Mike Newman Thomas Eastwood Jim Scoles

Chip Nielsen Sheila Fauth

MATCHING COMPANY IN-KIND/ COMPANY LABOR Dean Squires Lacey Forrey CONTRIBUTIONS CONTRIBUTIONS PRO-BONO SPONSORSHIPS CONTRIBUTIONS Tim White Gloria George 24+ YEARS $6,000 $66,900 $13,700 $118,600 $40,700 Rona Keech 890 HOURS Dave Keeney JD Ingraham

Neal Levang Kent Kuehn

Jona Parriman Duane Schmitz

Brian Wainright Rich Welch Jon Wilkinson

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ALL HANDS ON DECK DEVELOPMENT MARKET GROUP | Projects connect engineers, surveyors and a small army of interns to complete jobs in a wide variety of locations

CLIENT Fishing Bridge RV Park Redevelopment

Xanterra Parks The Fishing Bridge RV Park Redevelopment is an example of our ability to spread and Resorts projects across our offices to provide the best solutions for our clients. On this project, we tapped into the capabilities from five offices and our Development, Water-Wastewater, OWNER Survey and Buildings market groups. When completed in 2020, this $18M campground Xanterra and project will make vast improvements to the original 1960’s era site in Yellowstone National During my internship with Yellowstone Park. Morrison-Maierle, I found National Park Connecting with Our Future Workforce Located on 40 acres, the RV park consists of a registration building (or Camper Services), experiencing the means COMMUNITY two lower loops—Areas A and B—and an upper loop, Area C. Areas A and B will replace “It’s a long interview process,” says Dave Keeney, construction manager, when asked and methods necessary existing gravel RV pads with concrete and Area C will be redesigned so all spots are pull- about Morrison-Maierle's growing internship program where several employee-owners Yellowstone throughs rather than making campers back into their spots. Camper Services will also be to construct development National Park got started in their careers. “When we hire them in the spring, we have several months to expanded to meet the demands of increased traffic and users. Because Fishing Bridge is projects exciting and decide if they’re a good fit. We have hired some great employees as a result.” the only campground in Yellowstone that has full RV hookups, it is one of the busiest in the beneficial to becoming park and it needs the amenities to accommodate visitors. Several market groups hire interns, but in 2019, the Development Market Group and a better designer in the our Bozeman office hired the lion’s share. Dave says it’s a natural connection due to the Our “all-hands-on-deck” approach and wide range of services contributed to the success six-block proximity to Montana State University’s top-notch engineering program and the future. The enjoyment of this project located deep in grizzly bear and buffalo country. From surveying, planning Bozeman area’s booming growth and development. These factors, combined with the and designing to meeting the requirements of Architectural Barriers Act (ABA), and I experienced working company’s dedication to students in STEM, are helping Morrison-Maierle connect with and recycling standards, this project is an example of our ability to deliver a project using in the field during my shape its future workforce. nearly all in-house survey and design services. internship reassured me Dave, who’s been working with his fellow Bozeman office employee-owner, Eli Shuford and that I had made the right Morrison-Maierle's human resources staff, says Development Market Group interns are exposed to a wide variety of duties such as soil and asphalt compaction testing, concrete decision to major in civil testing, project inspections, lab work and sometimes introductory design/CAD work. After engineering. Moving Materials returning to class in the fall, many Morrison-Maierle interns have said that compared to their 6,000 1,700 classmates, they were exposed to more projects and had better hands-on experiences. A massive amount of materials tons of concrete 10,000 truck loads Haaken Syvrud cubic yards of crushed based needed to be moved in and out placed taken in and About 90 percent of the 2019 Development interns were civil engineering majors and the imported into the site out of the site 2019 Development of the park to accomplish this rest focusing on construction engineering. Many have additional training in biological and Market Group Intern geological sciences as well. From May to September in 2019, our Development interns project. Here are a few figures 8,000 miles of water and and now full-time to help illustrate the enormity cubic yards of sewer pipe installed 8,800 billed more than 7,000 regular hours, and 1,300 overtime hours to roughly 50 projects. Morrison-Maierle of this project: materials removed tons of employee-owner from the site 3 pavement laid 12 MORRISON-MAIERLE | 2019 YEAR IN REVIEW 13

GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY INDUSTRIAL MARKET GROUP | Firm-wide support of a project with a quick turnaround fortifies a rural community's economy

CLIENT Round Mountain Phase W

Kinross Gold The community of Round Mountain, Nevada, is home to over 1,500 people. The Corporation Round Mountain Mine employs approximately 800 full-time employees and more than 900 work at the site, creating a significant economic contribution to the county’s tax base. OWNER Kinross Gold Corporation, who manages mine operations, proposed a significant mine pit Kinross Gold Corporation expansion, that requiring pushing back the mine wall 1,200 feet.

Between 2017 and 2019, Morrison-Maierle helped Round Mountain Gold Corporation COMMUNITY expand and relocate infrastructure that was impacted from the mine’s expansion. The Round Mountain, work included detailed design of a new truck shop, warehouse, lube room, wash bays,

Nev. mine operations building, fuel islands, and a solution processing facility. Additionally, Above: The new Truck Shop. Right: Some of the we designed a new Vertical Carbon-in-Column (VCIC) plant to help separate gold from Morrison-Maierle team members pose in front of one of the mine's massive trucks in the new solution. The expansion also included site grading and drainage to support the new shop. Bottom: Tim White, one of our structural facilities. engineers poses with a highly valued prize—that he wasn't able to keep.

With over 4,000 pages of technical specifications, 602 drawings, and the involvement of 62 professionals putting in 31,242 hours, this project involved significant effort from many of Morrison-Maierle’s offices and markets. This project received an ACEC award in 2019 in the Industrial and Manufacturing Processes and Facilities category.

Fields in the Field

Ken Fields was committed to the success of the Phase W project from the start. He spent 21 months at the site supporting the detailed design and construction phases of the project. Ken was instrumental in coordinating with staff at Round Mountain Gold Corporation to gain insight into the functionality of the relocated and rebuilt infrastructure. He supported the construction phase activities by acting as the Resident Project Representative and coordinated all third-party testing for the delivery of the project. 14 MORRISON-MAIERLE | 2019 YEAR IN REVIEW 15

STEM for Our Students CONNECTING WITH Kristyn Mayernik, from our Great Falls office, spent some time to help show middle and high school girls the value of natural OUR COMMUNITIES resources engineering. After shopping for a water table that shows erosion, sediment deposition and how rivers and lakes Show of Support | In 2019, Morrison-Maierle's 11 offices behave, she decided they were too expensive.

gave back to their communities in a variety of ways As a water resources engineer with experience in GIS modeling, analysis and mapping, Kristyn and her husband headed to the hardware store and purchased the supplies needed to construct Community involvement comes in all shapes and sizes. From organizing events, their own table to use at the Girls STEM event at CMR High School. She was on hand to demonstrate, answer questions and to committee work, to digging and building, Morrison-Maierle employee-owners encourage young women to enter a STEM field. XXXTop: The team created a 1:5 scale model of the hydroelectric facility to help under- know that giving back is something that unifies us as a firm. Here are a few examples: stand the problems at the existing power station.

Left: The Billings office frequently participates in events like Habitat for Gillette Office “Flies In” to Help a Client Humanity.

Right: With its top-notch Our Gillette office employee-owners have worked for the engineering program, many Mondell Field Airport in Newcastle, WY for several years. In June Morrison-Maierle employee-owners are also 2019, they rolled up their sleeves to help host the airport’s “Fly Montana State University In and Air Show” which is an annual summertime attraction. alums who support the university in many different ways. Our team, led by Laura Bourne, left, showed up early to flip pancakes at the free breakfast and assist during the afternoon air shows. The event drew a large crowd with plane tours, remote control airplane demonstrations and a show by Dick Fennell, an aerobatic pilot who lives in Powell.

Buildings Group Volunteers on Park Upgrade

In 2019, several of our Market Groups organized and orchestrated community service events. A good example of these efforts was executed by members of our Missoula Left: Eric Webber, participated in Leadership Buildings Market Group. They led the charge to help rehab Missoula in 2019. Several Missoula’s beloved Dragon’s Hollow playground in Caras Park. employee-owners have participated (and are currently participating) in Located downtown, the play area is an all-abilities playground community and state-wide that was in need of some upgrades. Our team, who are familiar leadership programs like this one. Right: Jona with building upgrades of all kinds, showed up on a rainy Parriman, far left, and Saturday to help with the effort. Charlie Brisko, second from left, presented a check to the Helena Education Foundation to support new programs at C.R. Anderson Middle School in Helena. 16 MORRISON-MAIERLE | 2019 YEAR IN REVIEW 17

POWERED BY NATURE NATURAL RESOURCES MARKET GROUP | Engineers team up to design a solution that protects a waterway and creates a new power source

CLIENT Spotted Bear Hydroelectric Renovation U.S. Forest Service The U.S. Forest Service owns and operates an aging 50-kW hydroelectric facility that supplies electricity to the off-grid Spotted Bear Ranger Station. The OWNER station, located in remote Northwestern Montana, needed a significant and reliable

U.S. Department power source to support mission critical forest management duties. of Agriculture The Spotted Bear Ranger Station system generates electricity using micro- hydropower. When the water level of nearby Addition Creek is adequate, the micro- COMMUNITY hydropower system produces enough electricity to supply the 31-building complex. Flathead However, water levels in Addition Creek are rarely adequate. National Forest, Top: The team created Top: The new hydroelectric facility was Mont. a 1:5 scale model of the ready for service in the fall of 2019. Far Left: The facility also had an increasing number of mechanical problems. Adding to this hydroelectric facility to help The journey into the hydroelectric facility is expense, the Spotted Bear system was also using diesel-powered generators to understand the problems at a 25-minute walk. Forest Service personnel the existing power station. visit the site twice a day. Left: The team at ensure constant power production. After several costly repairs, the Forest Service Morrison-Maierle injected dye into their decided it was time to update the 40-year-old hydroelectric facility in order to keep 1:5 model to understand the issues at the existing facility and design a new solution providing a reliable primary electric supply. that helped reduce the sediment build-up.

Morrison-Maierle engineers conducted a site evaluation where they identified several major issues including sediment build up. Sediment causes accelerated wear and premature failure of powerhouse equipment.

To get a clear picture of the existing facility and its sedimentation problems, our engineers built a 1:5 scale model at the Carroll College Engineering laboratory. This model allowed them to conduct real-world simulations. The team also used Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) software. Together these methods provided Best Presentation Award Goes To ... the information needed to design a solution for the Forest Service. Congratulations to team members (pictured from left to right) Krystin Mayernik, and for receiving the Outstanding Presentation Award The result was a project that significantly improved sediment capture and provided the Jeff Roe Luke Carlson from the Montana Department of Natural Resources (DNRC) Floodplain Mapping Forest Service with an automated system to maintain the Spotted Bear Hydroelectric Contractor's Workshop. Morrison-Maierle's surveyors and natural resources system. Going forward, this project may help rural communities interested in using engineers have recently collaborated on several projects that will help state micro-hydropower as an easy-to-maintain and long-term solution for their energy and local entities and private landowners on issues pertaining to floodplain needs. delineations. Krystin, Jeff and Luke created a presentation that will help contractors on future projects. 18 MORRISON-MAIERLE | 2019 YEAR IN REVIEW 19

BETTER TOGETHER SURVEY MARKET GROUP | Connecting a time-honored survey method with state-of-the-art technology helped set the stage for a successful project

CLIENT Hauser Dam

NorthWestern At roughly 100 years old, many of the Hauser Dam’s vertical turbines were not Energy working at optimal efficiency. The dam’s operators at NorthWestern Energy called on our team to develop a solution to replace and modernize the aging equipment. The project OWNER replaced the decades-old horizontal turbine with a more efficient vertically-designed NorthWestern version that increases the efficiency of electrical generation from 30 to 60 percent. Energy Because the new turbine needed to use both the existing turbine’s centerline and match COMMUNITY the building’s gridlines, our survey team created a 3D point-cloud model of the turbine’s housing to deliver a precise installation of the new equipment. Above: Morrison-Maierle used a Near Helena, 3D scanner to help complete part Mont. The model, created with information provided by the scan, included a multitude of angles of the survey. that allowed for critical measurements that were accurate within a millimeter. That level Right: Morrison-Maierle had to create a model to replace the old Top: The project required Morrison-Maierle to replace the old horizontally- of precision helped with the manufacturing of the specialty connection pieces needed for horizontal turbine with a new designed version in the powerhouse that was built in the early 1900s. vertical one. The design team this project and is one of the reasons this project received the Montana ACEC 2020 Grand Above: Ty Walker, left, and Mike Brennan, right, accept the Montana ACEC relied on the survey techniques Engineering Excellence Grand Project Award for this project. Project Award. for space measurements that were accurate down to a millimeter.

Drone Pilots and Surveys Continue to Expand

Advances in the technology of Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (sUAS aka “drones”) presents the engineering industry with new opportunities to better serve clients. Our Survey Market Group knows this and is on the forefront of adopting and applying new sUAS technologies—and training a team of competent pilots to deliver. In 2019, three employee-owners obtained their FAA Part 107 certification to operate sUAS in the National Airspace System. Left: Morrison-Maierle's engineers and surveyors worked closely with their clients from NorthWestern Energy and Anaconda Foundry Fabrication Company (AFFCO) Right: The 1900s-era Hauser Dam. Morrison-Maierle now has six FAA-certified sUAS pilots in its Cody, Billings, Bozeman, Helena and Missoula offices. Top: From left, Angie Benedetti, Jenna Comstock, Dee Holland, Lindy Peterson and Lori Hultin.

Corporate Service Changes

Several changes in our Human Resources Top: From left, Sheila Habeck, Denny Lester, John Lavey and Kaity Clements. and Accounting departments led to shifts in personnel and promotions. EXPANSIONS After seven years as the benefits manager, Angie Benedetti was promoted to the Marketing Expertise | Morrison-Maierle changes its human resources manager position. In this role, she assists our offices with focus with a new director and additional staff members recruiting new employees. She is now also HALL OF FAMER a resource for all HR-related questions. Jenna Comstock moved into the New Direction for Marketing Services John H. Morrison, Jr. | After years of service to clients and his community, role of human resources specialist. former president and CEO is named to the Montana Engineer's Hall of Fame Morrison-Maierle expanded its approach to business development in 2019 with the hiring of She is responsible for new employee a new director, content specialist and graphic designer. onboarding, open enrollment, benefit administration, wellness program John Lavey joined the firm in late spring as the Director of Strategic Marketing that administration and education and training Thoughout his 60-year career, John H. Morrison, Mauritania, Tanzania, Lesotho, Egypt and the set a new path for the firm’s Lead Generation Marketing efforts. This new approach on benefits. Jr., PE, has left a strong engineering and service Philippines. He designed roads, highways and other will help position our technical staff as visible professionals in the engineering, survey, legacy to the state of Montana. He was first introduced transportation infrastructure projects. environmental science and planning fields. Lori Hultin joined Morrison-Maierle in the to the profession by his father, John H. Morrison, Sr. at early fall as an administrative assistant. John succeeds Jason Mercer who served dual roles for Morrison-Maierle from 2014 to 2019 the age of 13. As one of the two founders of Morrison- After working overseas, John returned to Helena and She is part of the corporate team in as both the Chief Marketing Officer and the leader of the Water/Wastewater Market Group. Maierle, John Sr. called upon his son to assist him with eventually moved into management. He assumed Helena and assists with human resources Jason is now focusing full-time on his market group’s projects, personnel development and a survey. From then on, John Jr. continued learning the helm of Morrison-Maierle in 1973. Under his and other administrative functions. lead generation marketing and business development. engineering and land surveying practices from his leadership, Morrison-Maierle continued to grow in After three years as a Morrison-Maierle father and helped him on projects when he could. size and reputation. One of John’s first tasks was to hire a Strategic Marketing Coordinator. Kaity Clements accounting technician, Dee Holland joined the marketing services team in late summer. As the strategic marketing coordinator, moved into a new role with Morrison- Early in John’s career he became involved with a wide While working to help grow Morrison-Maierle into the she manages the distribution of company-branded promotional items, coordinates and Maierle Systems. She works on all project variety of Montana-based civil engineering projects firm it is today, John also devoted countless hours to executes “The Roundup”—Morrison-Maierle’s internal newsletter, helps streamline the invoicing and billing. from structural to transportation to airport work. As civic organizations throughout Montana. His work for proposal creation process and assists with other writing, editorial and advertising aspects a project design engineer, field engineer, project the Montana State University Foundation, Montana within marketing services. With Dee’s promotion, the accounting manager and discipline lead, he became known for World Trade Center, Helena Chamber of Commerce, department promoted Lindy Peterson developing and applying practical and appropriate Helena YMCA, Helena Optimist Club, and the Masonic Rounding out the team is Denny Lester who joined the marketing services team in late into the accounts payable position. Lindy solutions to complex engineering problems. He Orders has helped make these organizations what fall. As the senior graphic arts specialist, he is responsible for strategizing and producing previously served as the accounting developed these skills by working on numerous they are today. In 2019, John's lifelong committment a wide range of visual arts products to support the company’s inbound and outbound department administrative assistant. Montana projects, which led to engineering project to Montana and the engineering industry earned him marketing efforts and senior management and client service managers with their business management work for USAID in Vietnam, Zaire, a spot in the Montana Engineers Fall of Fame. development objectives. 22 MORRISON-MAIERLE | 2019 YEAR IN REVIEW 23

IT STILL HAS THE THRILL

TRANSPORTATION MARKET GROUP | New bridge provides a new, safer experience that helps inject tourism dollars into a rural community

Tim Brugger Steps in to CLIENT Kootenai Falls Swinging Bridge Serve ASCE Wyoming US Forest Service Hovering 35 feet above the raging rapids of Kootenai River in northwestern In addition to engineering, science, survey Montana, Kootenai Falls Swinging Bridge presents an incredible tourism destination and planning project work, many of our OWNER and a major attraction to the Libby and Troy communities. After parking directly off Top: The Swinging Bridge is employee-owners share their expertise a lot safer, able to hold more U.S. Department Highway 2, a short trail provides passage to the Swinging Bridge and breathtaking than five people at a time with statewide professional organizations. of Agriculture Kootenai Falls. and still gives visitors the Helena Office Names New Transportation Leadership Tim Brugger, a member of our same thrill of walking over a raging river on a swinging Transportation Market Group in Sheridan, Managed by the U.S. Forest Service, the bridge was originally built in 1937 by the Civilian Charlie Brisko stepped into the role as Helena COMMUNITY bridge. Bottom, left: Since WY, has stepped into the role of secretary Bridge Market Group Office Leader and Scott Conservation Corps to provide access for firefighters to the north side of the river. In the location was hard to Libby, Mont. reach, helicopters were for the Wyoming Section of the American order to provide a safe and enjoyable experience for the growing number of tourists Fanning joined our firm as the Helena Roadway used during construction to Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). Market Group Office Leader. and reduce routine maintenance costs, the Forest Service decided to construct a new bring in supplies. Bottom, right: All of the materials Swinging Bridge. Morrison-Maierle's bridge engineers created a new, safe, robust Tim was elected to the position at the used in the design had to A longtime employee-owner, Charlie has been bridge that would provide the same thrilling experience and similar look as the old be lightweight, yet strong annual Wyoming Engineering Society enough to support the new with Morrison-Maierle since 2003. In his new bridge. They used lightweight materials that could be helicoptered into this hard-to- conference in February 2019 and will structure. role, he is responsible for management of the access site. This project received an ACEC Montana Engineering Excellence Award. eventually move through the ranks to Helena Bridge Group and its projects. Top: Charlie Brisko, right, is the bridge supervisor and Scott treasurer, vice president, president and Fanning, left, is the roadway design supervisor. Scott Fanning is one of Morrison-Maierle's past president. His commitments to the newer employee-owners who has more than 18 years of transportation experience. In his new organization have included helping with position, he spends time supervising and mentoring our roadway design staff, serving as a client the student ASCE chapter mentoring manager for Montana Department of Transportation and other roadway clients, managing roadway University of Wyoming engineering projects, and providing design guidance when necessary. students in events and design contests.

Bringing in New Expertise from Afar

Before Dan Lambson decided to join us as a fellow employee-owner at Morrison-Maierle, he spent some time building a bridge far away from the U.S. While working as a Forest Service bridge designer, Dan applied for a sabbatical that allowed him to design and construct a trail bridge project at Chile’s Torres del Paine National Park. He connected with Conservation Volunteers International Program to do this project before moving to Helena to join our Transportation Market Group. 24 MORRISON-MAIERLE | 2019 YEAR IN REVIEW 25

FIRST IN CLASS WATER/WASTEWATER MARKET GROUP | As the first of its kind in Montana, project team creates a solution with sights on sustainability

CLIENT Moonlight Basin Wastewater Treatment Plant #2

MB MT New Leadership Roles for Moonlight Basin has an established water and sewer utility, but as a growing area, Acquisition, LLC Billings Employee-Owners they needed additional wastewater treatment infrastructure. They used information and recommendations from a Morrison-Maierle Preliminary Engineering Report (PER) Morrison-Maierle promoted two of its OWNER completed in 2015 to select a three-wastewater-treatment-plant concept in their three senior water-wastewater engineers Moonlight Basin service areas. In 2019, they began implementing the WWTP #2 project. into new leadership roles in 2019. Water and Sewer Historically, wastewater effluent at Moonlight Basin was disposed of by subsurface Casey Hanson, left, who was the COMMUNITY infiltration chambers and seasonal irrigation on forest land. However, as the resort Billings office’s Market Group Office continues to grow, the forest irrigation disposal method is less desirable due to land-use Leader, now serves as the Director Moonlight Basin, conflicts. Morrison-Maierle, following Montana Department of Environmental Quality’s of Technical Services. He focuses on Mont. standards, designed a strategy to treat effluent to Class A-1 reuse standards. risk management and project quality assurance and problem solving. As the first wastewater treatment plant in Montana to gain Class A-1 standards, discharge from Moonlight Basin WWTP #2 can now be applied to the adjacent golf course. This Casey joined Morrison-Maierle in will likely open up more discharge options such as groundwater injection or surface 2004 as a Water/Wastewater project water as Montana’s regulatory agencies approve them. Additional methods could include engineer. He has also been a member the possibility of using treated discharge to make snow. This innovative design sets an of the ESOP Administration Committee Top: Craig Nowak, third from left, joins his fellow Morrison-Maierle Fuller Award recipients (From left: Scott Murphy, example for water reuse in Montana. Jeff Ashley and Nancy Cormier) at the Montana AWWA conference. for eight years, and chaired the committee during the 100% ESOP/ Craig Nowak Receives 2019 George Warren Fuller Award S-Corp conversion.

Craig Nowak, our Great Falls Operations Manager, was the American Water Works With Casey's promotion, Kurtis Association (AWWA) Montana Section’s recipient of the George Warren Fuller Award. His DeShaw, right, was promoted to 36-year career has helped provide communities throughout the West with clean water. As a serve as the Billings office’s Water- lifetime member of AWWA and ASCE—organizations that have benefitted from his longtime Wastewater Market Group Office involvement—Craig and his contributions were honored at the annual conference in Spring Leader (MGOL). 2019. Kurtis has more than 13 years of Craig was honored for his years of work in Montana and in the western United States. A experience in Water-Wastewater South Dakota native, Craig likely had no idea that he would become a civil engineer who design and has been with Morrison- would design and oversee a 23-year potable water supply project in his home state. The Maierle since 2006. In his new Left: The design team chose an ultrafiltration membrane bioreactor (MBR) facility with UV disinfection as the most approporiate solution and to meet DEQ's Class Mni Wiconi Rural Water Supply System, covering almost the entire southwest quarter position, Kurtis will lead Billings' staff A-1 effluent resue standards.Right: Moonlight Basin's golf course can now be irrigated with the treated effluent from this project because it meets the state's Class A-1 standards. Top, right: The building's first-floor walls were buried to conserve energy and reduce heating bills. of South Dakota, is an $86 million project that now supplies 52,000 rural residents and of engineers, drafters and RPRs. livestock with clean water for the first time in history. 26 MORRISON-MAIERLE | 2019 YEAR IN REVIEW 27

Back in the U.S.A.

One of Morrison-Maierle System’s computer technicians returned to his home office in Missoula after an 18-month deployment to Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. David Foss, a Systems computer technician also TOP-NOTCH SERVICE serves his country with the U.S. Air Force. SYSTEMS | Technology firm is now one of 27 firms in the West Based at the Al Dhafra Air Base, David’s position with the Montana Air to hold prestigious Managed Services credential National Guard is very similar to the work he does for Systems; he’s a network management specialist for the United State Air Force’s 380th Air Expeditionary Wing.

David earned his associate’s degree while serving full-time with the Guard. Now that he’s back in Montana, he spends one weekend a month in Great Falls for drill and a month away in the summer to learn new techniques and sharpen his technical skills. He has two-and-a-half years left on his six-year contract with the Air Force.

Welcome home, David. We’re happy to have you back helping our Systems clients with all of their networking needs.

Left: David Foss was deployed to Abu Dhabi and returned to Missoula in 2019.

Looking Good in Cyberspace In 2019, Morrison-Maierle Systems was placed on the prestigious Channel Futures MSP 501 list. After receiving this certification, Systems The operations and sales team at is now among only 27 Managed Service Providers (MSP) across the Morrison-Maierle Systems spent western states in the Mountain Region and they are the sole provider the first half of 2019 planning in Montana. and then executing a new look for the website, getsystems.net. The MSP Alliance is an international association established to After several good years with the verify that MSPs in its membership base are reputable, qualified old site, the team decided that a and trustworthy. Since the MSP industry is largely unregulated, new look and new approach was this certification is heightened and therefore instrumental to many needed to match their efforts as Systems customers. a top-notch Managed Services Provider (MSP) throughout “Having gone through this arduous certification process, Systems Montana. clients and customers know now that their computer infrastructure lies with a competent and tested company," said Shaun Brown, Systems President and CEO.

Top, Above & Below: Our Billings staff, left, the Missoula staff, top right and the Helena office, below right, all had a hand in obtaining Morrison-Maierle Systems' new MSP501 certification in 2019. PRSRT STD U.S. Postage PAID Great Falls, MT Permit No. 151 1 Engineering Place Helena, MT 59602

Morrison-Maierle Celebrates its 75th Anniversary

Morrison-Maierle employee-owners will spend 2020 celebrating its 75th anniversary. Founded in 1945 by John Morrison, Sr. and Joe Maierle, we have grown into a multi-disciplinary engineering firm focused on providing practical solutions and exceptional client service. We are a Top 500 Design Firm with more than 300 employees in 11 offices in Montana, Wyoming and Washington.

While much has changed over the past 75 years, our core values of Integrity, Respect, Commitment, and Excellence remain resolute. We are delighted to celebrate this anniversary with our clients, communities and employee-owners—and look forward to the next 75.

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