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This project was the complete remodeling of the two-story, 100-year old Butte “Fire Station No. 1” into the new home of the Butte-Silver Bow Public Archives, which houses historic documents, photos, records, artifacts, and ephemera that chronicle the history of Butte, America, “The Richest Hill on Earth”.  The project included the interior demolition and renovation of the 12,000 SF fire station into offices, storage rooms, processing and decontamination rooms, mechanical and electrical rooms (including a server/IT room) and public reading, library, and map areas.  The project also included a 10,000 SF addition: precast concrete vaults and an auditorium.  Between the buildings is “The Wedge” (so called because it had to be built out of square to accommodate the existing building) that houses a new traction elevator, the “grand staircase”, lobbies, security vestibules, laundry room, coat closets, bathrooms, storage rooms, janitor rooms, and mechanical rooms.

This project was the complete renovation of the sixth floor of Leon Johnson Hall at Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana.  Leon Johnson Hall contains biology and chemistry laboratories, classrooms, and office space. The project was conducted while the building was in use, during the school year.  Leon Johnson Hall Sixth Floor Renovation started as a partial remodel of the floor including rearranging the “core” of the floor, a new fire sprinkler system, new finishes, and new laboratory casework and equipment (boilers, autoclaves, fume hoods, and a cold room), but was expanded to a complete remodel of Sixth Floor as the project was awarded far under the established budget.  As part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, all the allocated funding had to be used, as economic stimulus.  The project had separate sources of funding, which required detailed tracking.

This project is the new home for the occupational trades program at Flathead Valley Community College in Kalispell, Montana.  It was a government project awarded through a competitive, low-bid process.  The facility is a two-story, 24,300 square feet steel, concrete, and masonry structure and includes classrooms, offices, conference rooms, restrooms, the campus shop, a storage bay, and four large teaching bays for instruction in welding, carpentry, machining, electrical, and plumbing.  The building was constructed of concrete footings, foundation walls, slabs-on-grade, and slabs-on-precast deck; structural hollowcore precast; structural steel including large span steel trusses; steel joists; and acoustical metal decking; CMU with split-faced veneer; and metal stud framing.  Despite the complexity and size of this project, it was completed in ten months through the winter to meet the client’s deadline for starting classes in the spring.

This project consists of constructing six two-story duplexes (twelve living units total) in “Jupiter Village” at Malmstrom Air Force Base, Montana.  The project was administrated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and was awarded through a competitive “Request for Proposal” process that evaluates contractor past performance and price.  Each duplex is 6,000 square feet (project is 36,000 square feet total).  The project was completed on time with minimal cost growth—2.6% (the largest two change orders being additional retaining walls and sump pumps in the crawlspaces added as part of a Malmstrom-wide mandate).  A notable achievement was that all the foundation work was done during the winter.  Novel approaches used by OCC on this project include gang-forming the foundations and prebuilt wall panels that minimized onsite carpentry work.  All units were Energy Star certified.  Oswood Construction Company is an Energy Star Partner and all the homes we have constructed have been Energy Star certified.