This building is new construction of a five-story office building with a foundation footprint of 80 feet x 130 feet. It provides over 62,000 square feet of office space (including the basement). The main level is 15 feet tall and the remaining floors are 13.5 feet tall each. The floor framing is steel and concrete composite beams and girders. The roof framing is steel joists with a steel roof deck. The lateral load resisting system is concrete shear walls. The exterior walls are light gage steel stud framing. Brick veneer clads the main level, dryvit is used on the next three floors, and curtain walls are used on the fifth floor. The main level is a commercial bank, so assembly load is used in design.

The Glacier Bank headquarters, in Kalispell, expanded by purchasing the building across the street. Both two-story buildings were first remodeled and then connected by a 66-foot precast concrete skybridge. Both the north building and the south building remodels included in-fill floor areas on the second floor. Both buildings include new pop-up areas on the roof to provide space for elevators and stairs leading to the skybridge. During construction, a massive fire burned much of the roof framing on the north building. An assessment of the damage was made by Eclipse as well as direction given as to which structural elements were salvageable and which were damaged beyond repair.

This new building is two-stories above ground with a total floor space of approximately 9120 square feet. A basement story has an additional 4560 square feet that will be used for storage. The upper story is column free and will be used as office space. The main floor has only three interior columns and will be used for light manufacturing. Both floors and the roof are framed with steel bar joists and steel beams. There are four primary steel braced frames on the exterior to resist wind and UBC seismic zone 3 loading. There is a 12-foot x 46-foot arched skylight located right in the middle of the roof. The exterior of the building is dressed-up with steel canopies and reinforced brick pilasters and arches.

A 10,000 square foot addition to an existing warehouse building, The Community Food Co-Op in Bozeman, Montana combines numerous steel and wood features with existing masonry. Due to the openness of the building, the lateral force resisting system consists of a series of large steel moment frames with wood shearwalls. The roof system is a combination of timberframe wood trusses and sandwich panels. The upper floor is concrete on steel bar joists supported with open span steel beams. The exterior porch roof and floor are supported with thirty foot tall steel “mast” columns and steel rods forming a unique support system.

Overlooking the Clark Fork River, the Missoula Athletic Club’s climbing gym is a 5,180 square foot main level with another 2,180 square foot mezzanine level for office space. The 29-foot walls are made with structural steel columns and stress-skin wall panels, which simulate a rock-climbing environment. A cupola rises 16 feet above the main roof (total building height is 55′-6″) and the bottom chords of the trusses support an additional load for climbing surfaces on the ceiling of the building. Rock Pinnacle, which simulates a rock climbing “mountain,” stands 51 feet. The pinnacle was a design/build project with a structural wood skeleton and lightwood framed struts, braces and ribs to form its shape. Plywood panels were attached to the wood framing and the artificial rock texture was spread onto the panels. Lead wall supports and top rope supports for the climbers are supported internally by cables, rods and additional wood struts.