IN REVIEW...Top: Central Valley Fire Station has gained national attention as it is home to the first decontamination station in the U.S. Above: Our clients, partners, school staff

YEAR INREVIEW

2019

Connections

Last year Morrison-Maierle’s employee-owners worked together to strengthen their connections with their clients, communities and each other. This report highlights many of those connections and offers a glimpse of our plans for 2020 as we celebrate our 75th anniversary.

Connections with our clients

In service to, and in partnership with our clients, we delivered many exceptional and award-winning projects. We focused on delivering results that met our client’s needs while making our communities better places to be. Many times, these projects used capabilities and expertise from employee-owners throughout our offices and market groups. We have seen time and again how our commitment to partnering delivers excellent results and strengthens client relationships.

In 2019 we also launched our client trends initiative. As part of this effort, we interviewed nearly 60 clients and partners about their organization’s future opportunities and challenges. Their input will help us plan and anticipate future demands. I am grateful for their willingness to participate.

We also solicited input from more than 70 clients who gave us feedback about our performance as a company. These two critical sources of input, combined with industry trends, will deepen our connections with clients going forward.

Connections with our communities

I am proud to work with a company that also invests in its communities. More importantly, I appreciate the countless hours our employee-owners contribute to making communities safer, healthier and more vibrant. These connections are not always as easy to see but speak to a broader significance of what it means to build better communities.

Connections with each other

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 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

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 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.

I am humbled and thankful to work with, and for, my Morrison-Maierle employee-owner colleagues.

Founded in 1945,

Morrison-Maierle is

an employee-owned

company with 12 offices

throughout Montana,

Wyoming, Oregon

and Washington. As a

multi-disciplinary firm,

we provide services in

engineering, surveying,

planning and natural

sciences. We are ranked

among the Engineering

News Record’s (ENR) “Top

500 Design Firms” in the

United States and Canada.

Morrison-Maierle Systems

was founded in 1982 and

provides IT solutions

for municipalities and

businesses throughout

Montana.

About Us

Scott Murphy is the President and CEO of Morrison-Maierle.

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AIRPORTS MARKET GROUP

BUILDINGS MARKET GROUP

DEVELOPMENT MARKET GROUP

INDUSTRIAL MARKET GROUP

NATURAL RESOURCES MARKET GROUP

SURVEY MARKET GROUP

TRANSPORTATION MARKET GROUP

WATER/ WASTEWATER MARKET GROUP

MORRISON-MAIERLE SYSTEMS

Close Connections

Building Better Communities

2019 Charitable Giving

Employee Ownership

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Golden Opportunity

Connecting with our Communities

Powered by Nature

Better Together

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It Still Has the Thrill

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PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE CONTENTS

32 MORRISON-MAIERLE | 2019 YEAR IN REVIEW

Top: Work continues on Missoula International Airport's terminal expansion project. Above: An architectural rendering shows the design for a four-year terminal expansion project at Billings Logan International Airport. Left: Helena's new terminal expansion includes Cross Laminated Timber (CLT) that serves as both an architectural asset and a structural system.

Garrett Schultz, far left in the second row, likes

to stay busy. In addition to working as a full-time

airport engineer, Schultz is the Director of Baseball

and Head Coach of Bozeman’s AA Baseball team, the

Bozeman Bucks. 2019 was an especially rewarding

year, with Garrett and the Bucks winning the Montana

championship—the Bucks' first since 2007—and a berth

in the American Legion Northwest Region tournament.

The Making of Champions

CLOSE CONNECTIONSAIRPORTS MARKET GROUP | Terminal rehab projects involve expertise from both the Airports and Buildings Market Groups

In addition to master planning, taxiway realignments, runway reconstructions, parking lot designs, hangar and apron designs, Morrison-Maierle's Airports group had a number of terminal projects on its slate in 2019.

Billings

Billings Logan International Airport began a four-year, $55M remodeling project that started with the expansion of its two concourses from five gates to eight. A café, gift shop, bar and a “great room” were also added.

Bozeman

Bozeman-Yellowstone International Airport’s terminal expansion project added approximately 70,000 square feet to the concourse and will provide four additional gates, a third food and beverage location inside the security area, additional retail options and space for an expanded baggage handling area. Additionally, an 1,100-stall covered parking garage opened in July.

Helena

Helena Regional Airport’s three-phase terminal expansion includes a larger space for passenger boarding operations, a second-floor passenger waiting area with full amenities and airline gates, an improved passenger ramp, and a remodelled TSA screening area.

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.

Missoula

Missoula International Airport’s new $72M terminal project includes a baggage claim, jet bridges, security screening, and a larger restaurant, bar and concession area beyond the security checkpoint as well as space for future tenants.

Sheridan

Sheridan County Airport’s expansion and remodel project adds nearly 4,000 square feet to the existing terminal. New features include a larger waiting area past security, additional restrooms and an expanded TSA area.

West Yellowstone

A project in its early stages, the Airports team conducted area and environmental studies for an upcoming terminal project.

Morrison-Maierle's Airports Market Group has worked

in the Bend-Redmond, Oregon area for a number

of years. This work continued in 2019 with a runway

reconstruction project. In addition to our work in

Oregon, we expanded into the Washington market with

a taxiway project for the general aviation runway and

parking lot design at Spokane International Airport.

Our Work Heads West


Jill Cook, Operations Manager, center,

welcomed Jeff Kraft, PE, Ryan Thomson, PE,

Terry Jiracek and Chris Lord to our Buildings

team in 2019 (pictured from left to right). The

four are in our Billings office and have formed the

office’s Buildings Market Group. They spent the

later part of 2019 connecting with communities

and clients in both Montana and Wyoming.

We are thrilled to offer two new services

to our Buildings Market Group clients.

Pete Weber, left, joined our team

in April 2019 and has more than two

decades of experience in Information and

Communications Technology (ICT) design.

Pete is a Registered Communications

Distribution Designer (RCDD) who helps

integrate ICT into the design of buildings.

When clients want their wireless internet,

electronic safety and security, and voice

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

a new building in 2020? Plan ahead! He

says design teams should incorporate the

design of ICT systems into the earliest plan

sets to avoid later complications.

We’re also excited about the addition of

TJ Jones, right, to our team. TJ is a fire

protection designer who incorporates fire

protection systems into the construction

of new facilities. Just like ICT, planning for

fire protection systems is a job better done

early in the design process.

Top: Central Valley Fire Station has gained national attention as it is home to the first decontamination station in the U.S. Above: Our clients, partners, school staff and students gathered to celebrate the opening of the new Flathead High School project.

Sixty-three years ago, a group of citizens volunteered their time to erect a building that would eventually house the Central Valley Fire District, Station 1, in Belgrade. Facing the need to upgrade the facility, Central Valley’s leadership turned to Morrison-Maierle. We created a seismically-sound facility and sourced construction materials from local suppliers and tradespeople. The station also features a first-in-the-country decontamination station that protects our first-responders from the cancer-causing toxins found in many fires. This project received top honors in the Structural Systems category at the ACEC Montana Engineering Excellence Awards.

Flathead County and its communities are some of Montana’s fastest growing by population. As the number of full-time residents increases, so does the need to accommodate a growing student-body. In response to this growth, Flathead High School needed to build a new gym and expand its learning spaces. Morrison-Maierle served as the prime design consultant and engineering team.

The design called for the demolition of the old gym, the “half-floor” classrooms and the lecture hall to create a new gym, locker rooms, eight new classrooms, classroom breakout spaces and restrooms. The new and existing buildings are isolated from one another with a 10-inch gap to allow for seismic shift and fire protection.

Our design and project management resulted in a nearly $900,000 cost savings for the client. This project earned the top honor in the ACEC Montana Engineering Excellence Award in the Building/Technology Systems category.

CLIENT

CLIENT

OWNER

OWNER

COMMUNITY

ThinkOne Architecture

Kalispell Public Schools

Central Valley Fire District

Kalispell Public Schools

Belgrade, Mont.

COMMUNITY

Kalispell, Mont.

BUILDINGS MARKET GROUP | Connecting with our partners to meet community infrastructure needs results in excellence awards

BUILDING BETTERCOMMUNITIES

Flathead High School Expansion

Central Valley Fire Station

New Faces Bring New Expertise to Buildings Group

Buildings in Billings


As an employee-owned company, Morrison-Maierle employees become fully vested after six years of service. Here's our list of employee-owners who moved into a new level of ownership in 2019:

WE'RE INVESTED IN US TOO

6-11 YEARS 18-23 YEARS

24+ YEARS

12-17 YEARS

Bryan Brown

Luke Carlson

Cody Farley

Matt Hein

Cooper Krause

Mike Newman

Chip Nielsen

Dean Squires

Tim White

Molly Davidson

Marty Gagnon

Heather Mosser

Matt Pool

Jeff Roe

Jim Scoles

JD Ingraham

Kent Kuehn

Duane Schmitz

Rich Welch

Arian Bloomfield

Mike Brennan

Jill Cook

Dave Dewitt

Sue Dugan

Thomas Eastwood

Sheila Fauth

Lacey Forrey

Gloria George

Rona Keech

Dave Keeney

Neal Levang

Jona Parriman

Brian Wainright

Jon Wilkinson

Debbie Zuidema

MATCHING CONTRIBUTIONS

$6,000 $66,900 $13,700 $118,600

COMPANY CONTRIBUTIONS

IN-KIND/ PRO-BONO

COMPANY SPONSORSHIPS

LABOR CONTRIBUTIONS

$40,700890 HOURS

$245,9007.2%

APPROX.

of INCOME

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


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

The Fishing Bridge RV Park Redevelopment is an example of our ability to spread 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, Survey and Buildings market groups. When completed in 2020, this $18M campground project will make vast improvements to the original 1960’s era site in Yellowstone National Park.

Located on 40 acres, the RV park consists of a registration building (or Camper Services), two lower loops—Areas A and B—and an upper loop, Area C. Areas A and B will replace existing gravel RV pads with concrete and Area C will be redesigned so all spots are pull-throughs rather than making campers back into their spots. Camper Services will also be expanded to meet the demands of increased traffic and users. Because Fishing Bridge is the only campground in Yellowstone that has full RV hookups, it is one of the busiest in the park and it needs the amenities to accommodate visitors.

Our “all-hands-on-deck” approach and wide range of services contributed to the success of this project located deep in grizzly bear and buffalo country. From surveying, planning and designing to meeting the requirements of Architectural Barriers Act (ABA), and recycling standards, this project is an example of our ability to deliver a project using nearly all in-house survey and design services.

“It’s a long interview process,” says Dave Keeney, construction manager, when asked

about Morrison-Maierle's growing internship program where several employee-owners

got started in their careers. “When we hire them in the spring, we have several months to

decide if they’re a good fit. We have hired some great employees as a result.”

Several market groups hire interns, but in 2019, the Development Market Group and

our Bozeman office hired the lion’s share. Dave says it’s a natural connection due to the

six-block proximity to Montana State University’s top-notch engineering program and the

Bozeman area’s booming growth and development. These factors, combined with the

company’s dedication to students in STEM, are helping Morrison-Maierle connect with and

shape its future workforce.

Dave, who’s been working with his fellow Bozeman office employee-owner, Eli Shuford and

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

testing, project inspections, lab work and sometimes introductory design/CAD work. After

returning to class in the fall, many Morrison-Maierle interns have said that compared to their

classmates, they were exposed to more projects and had better hands-on experiences.

About 90 percent of the 2019 Development interns were civil engineering majors and the

rest focusing on construction engineering. Many have additional training in biological and

geological sciences as well. From May to September in 2019, our Development interns

billed more than 7,000 regular hours, and 1,300 overtime hours to roughly 50 projects.

CLIENT

OWNER

Xanterra Parks and Resorts

Xanterra and Yellowstone

National Park

COMMUNITY

Yellowstone National Park

Fishing Bridge RV Park Redevelopment

Moving Materials

A massive amount of materials

needed to be moved in and out

of the park to accomplish this

project. Here are a few figures

to help illustrate the enormity

of this project:

1,700truck loads

taken in and out of the site

8,800tons of

pavement laid

8,000cubic yards of

materials removed from the site

6,000tons of concrete

placed

10,000cubic yards of crushed based

imported into the site

3 miles of water and sewer pipe installed

Connecting with Our Future Workforce

During my internship with Morrison-Maierle, I found experiencing the means and methods necessary to construct development projects exciting and beneficial to becoming a better designer in the future. The enjoyment I experienced working in the field during my internship reassured me that I had made the right decision to major in civil engineering.

Haaken Syvrud2019 Development

Market Group Intern and now full-time Morrison-Maierle employee-owner


GOLDEN OPPORTUNITYINDUSTRIAL MARKET GROUP | Firm-wide support of a project with a quick

turnaround fortifies a rural community's economy

The community of Round Mountain, Nevada, is home to over 1,500 people. The 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.

Kinross Gold Corporation, who manages mine operations, proposed a significant mine pit expansion, that requiring pushing back the mine wall 1,200 feet.

Between 2017 and 2019, Morrison-Maierle helped Round Mountain Gold Corporation expand and relocate infrastructure that was impacted from the mine’s expansion. The work included detailed design of a new truck shop, warehouse, lube room, wash bays, mine operations building, fuel islands, and a solution processing facility. Additionally, we designed a new Vertical Carbon-in-Column (VCIC) plant to help separate gold from solution. The expansion also included site grading and drainage to support the new facilities.

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.

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Kinross Gold Corporation

Kinross Gold Corporation

Round Mountain, Nev.

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.

Above: The new Truck Shop. Right: Some of the Morrison-Maierle team members pose in front of one of the mine's massive trucks in the new shop. Bottom: Tim White, one of our structural engineers poses with a highly valued prize—that he wasn't able to keep.

Round Mountain Phase W

Fields in the Field


Show of Support | In 2019, Morrison-Maierle's 11 offices gave back to their communities in a variety of ways

CONNECTING WITH OUR COMMUNITIES

Community involvement comes in all shapes and sizes. From organizing events,

to committee work, to digging and building, Morrison-Maierle employee-owners

know that giving back is something that unifies us as a firm. Here are a few examples:

Buildings Group Volunteers on Park Upgrade

STEM for Our Students

Gillette Office “Flies In” to Help a Client

Our Gillette office employee-owners have worked for the

Mondell Field Airport in Newcastle, WY for several years. In June

2019, they rolled up their sleeves to help host the airport’s “Fly

In and Air Show” which is an annual summertime attraction.

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.

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

Buildings Market Group. They led the charge to help rehab

Missoula’s beloved Dragon’s Hollow playground in Caras Park.

Located downtown, the play area is an all-abilities playground

that was in need of some upgrades. Our team, who are familiar

with building upgrades of all kinds, showed up on a rainy

Saturday to help with the effort.

Kristyn Mayernik, from our Great Falls office, spent some time

to help show middle and high school girls the value of natural

resources engineering. After shopping for a water table that

shows erosion, sediment deposition and how rivers and lakes

behave, she decided they were too expensive.

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

their own table to use at the Girls STEM event at CMR High

School. She was on hand to demonstrate, answer questions and

encourage young women to enter a STEM field.

Left: Eric Webber, participated in Leadership Missoula in 2019. Several employee-owners have participated (and are currently participating) in community and state-wide leadership programs like this one. Right: Jona Parriman, far left, and 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.

Left: The Billings office frequently participates in

events like Habitat for Humanity.

Right: With its top-notch engineering program, many

Morrison-Maierle employee-owners are also

Montana State University alums who support

the university in many different ways.

XXXTop: The team created a 1:5 scale model of the hydroelectric facility to help under-stand the problems at the existing power station.


Congratulations to team members (pictured from left to right) Krystin Mayernik,

Jeff Roe and Luke Carlson for receiving the Outstanding Presentation Award

from the Montana Department of Natural Resources (DNRC) Floodplain Mapping

Contractor's Workshop. Morrison-Maierle's surveyors and natural resources

engineers have recently collaborated on several projects that will help state

and local entities and private landowners on issues pertaining to floodplain

delineations. Krystin, Jeff and Luke created a presentation that will help

contractors on future projects.

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 station, located in remote Northwestern Montana, needed a significant and reliable power source to support mission critical forest management duties.

The Spotted Bear Ranger Station system generates electricity using micro-hydropower. When the water level of nearby Addition Creek is adequate, the micro-hydropower system produces enough electricity to supply the 31-building complex. However, water levels in Addition Creek are rarely adequate.

The facility also had an increasing number of mechanical problems. Adding to this expense, the Spotted Bear system was also using diesel-powered generators to ensure constant power production. After several costly repairs, the Forest Service decided it was time to update the 40-year-old hydroelectric facility in order to keep providing a reliable primary electric supply.

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 the information needed to design a solution for the Forest Service.

The result was a project that significantly improved sediment capture and provided the Forest Service with an automated system to maintain the Spotted Bear Hydroelectric system. Going forward, this project may help rural communities interested in using micro-hydropower as an easy-to-maintain and long-term solution for their energy needs.

CLIENT

OWNER

COMMUNITY

U.S. Forest Service

U.S. Department of Agriculture

Flathead National Forest,

Mont.

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

POWERED BY NATURE

Spotted Bear Hydroelectric Renovation

Best Presentation Award Goes To ...

Top: The team created a 1:5 scale model of the hydroelectric facility to help understand the problems at the existing power station.

Top: The new hydroelectric facility was ready for service in the fall of 2019. Far Left: The journey into the hydroelectric facility is a 25-minute walk. Forest Service personnel visit the site twice a day. Left: The team at Morrison-Maierle injected dye into their 1:5 model to understand the issues at the existing facility and design a new solution that helped reduce the sediment build-up.


BETTER TOGETHERSURVEY MARKET GROUP | Connecting a time-honored survey method with

state-of-the-art technology helped set the stage for a successful project

At roughly 100 years old, many of the Hauser Dam’s vertical turbines were not 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 replaced the decades-old horizontal turbine with a more efficient vertically-designed version that increases the efficiency of electrical generation from 30 to 60 percent.

Because the new turbine needed to use both the existing turbine’s centerline and match 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.

The model, created with information provided by the scan, included a multitude of angles that allowed for critical measurements that were accurate within a millimeter. That level of precision helped with the manufacturing of the specialty connection pieces needed for this project and is one of the reasons this project received the Montana ACEC 2020 Grand Project Award.

CLIENT

OWNER

COMMUNITY

NorthWestern Energy

NorthWestern Energy

Near Helena, Mont.

Hauser Dam

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.

Morrison-Maierle now has six FAA-certified sUAS pilots in its Cody, Billings,

Bozeman, Helena and Missoula offices.

Drone Pilots and Surveys Continue to Expand

Above: Morrison-Maierle used a 3D scanner to help complete part of the survey. Right: Morrison-Maierle had to create a model to replace the old horizontal turbine with a new vertical one. The design team relied on the survey techniques for space measurements that were accurate down to a millimeter.

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.

Top: The project required Morrison-Maierle to replace the old horizontally-designed version in the powerhouse that was built in the early 1900s. Above: Ty Walker, left, and Mike Brennan, right, accept the Montana ACEC Engineering Excellence Grand Project Award for this project.


Thoughout his 60-year career, John H. Morrison, Jr., PE, has left a strong engineering and service legacy to the state of Montana. He was first introduced to the profession by his father, John H. Morrison, Sr. at the age of 13. As one of the two founders of Morrison-Maierle, John Sr. called upon his son to assist him with a survey. From then on, John Jr. continued learning engineering and land surveying practices from his father and helped him on projects when he could.

Early in John’s career he became involved with a wide variety of Montana-based civil engineering projects from structural to transportation to airport work. As a project design engineer, field engineer, project manager and discipline lead, he became known for developing and applying practical and appropriate solutions to complex engineering problems. He developed these skills by working on numerous Montana projects, which led to engineering project management work for USAID in Vietnam, Zaire,

Mauritania, Tanzania, Lesotho, Egypt and the Philippines. He designed roads, highways and other transportation infrastructure projects.

After working overseas, John returned to Helena and eventually moved into management. He assumed the helm of Morrison-Maierle in 1973. Under his leadership, Morrison-Maierle continued to grow in size and reputation.

While working to help grow Morrison-Maierle into the firm it is today, John also devoted countless hours to civic organizations throughout Montana. His work for the Montana State University Foundation, Montana World Trade Center, Helena Chamber of Commerce, Helena YMCA, Helena Optimist Club, and the Masonic Orders has helped make these organizations what they are today. In 2019, John's lifelong committment to Montana and the engineering industry earned him a spot in the Montana Engineers Fall of Fame.

HALL OF FAMERJohn H. Morrison, Jr. | After years of service to clients and his community,

former president and CEO is named to the Montana Engineer's Hall of Fame

Several changes in our Human Resources

and Accounting departments led to shifts

in personnel and promotions.

After seven years as the benefits manager,

Angie Benedetti was promoted to the

human resources manager position. In

this role, she assists our offices with

recruiting new employees. She is now also

a resource for all HR-related questions.

Jenna Comstock moved into the

role of human resources specialist.

She is responsible for new employee

onboarding, open enrollment, benefit

administration, wellness program

administration and education and training

on benefits.

Lori Hultin joined Morrison-Maierle in the

early fall as an administrative assistant.

She is part of the corporate team in

Helena and assists with human resources

and other administrative functions.

After three years as a Morrison-Maierle

accounting technician, Dee Holland

moved into a new role with Morrison-

Maierle Systems. She works on all project

invoicing and billing.

With Dee’s promotion, the accounting

department promoted Lindy Peterson

into the accounts payable position. Lindy

previously served as the accounting

department administrative assistant.

Corporate Service Changes

Morrison-Maierle expanded its approach to business development in 2019 with the hiring of

a new director, content specialist and graphic designer.

John Lavey joined the firm in late spring as the Director of Strategic Marketing that

set a new path for the firm’s Lead Generation Marketing efforts. This new approach

will help position our technical staff as visible professionals in the engineering, survey,

environmental science and planning fields.

John succeeds Jason Mercer who served dual roles for Morrison-Maierle from 2014 to 2019

as both the Chief Marketing Officer and the leader of the Water/Wastewater Market Group.

Jason is now focusing full-time on his market group’s projects, personnel development and

lead generation marketing and business development.

One of John’s first tasks was to hire a Strategic Marketing Coordinator. Kaity Clements

joined the marketing services team in late summer. As the strategic marketing coordinator,

she manages the distribution of company-branded promotional items, coordinates and

executes “The Roundup”—Morrison-Maierle’s internal newsletter, helps streamline the

proposal creation process and assists with other writing, editorial and advertising aspects

within marketing services.

Rounding out the team is Denny Lester who joined the marketing services team in late

fall. As the senior graphic arts specialist, he is responsible for strategizing and producing

a wide range of visual arts products to support the company’s inbound and outbound

marketing efforts and senior management and client service managers with their business

development objectives.

New Direction for Marketing Services

Marketing Expertise | Morrison-Maierle changes its focus with a new director and additional staff members

EXPANSIONSTop: From left, Sheila Habeck, Denny Lester, John Lavey and Kaity Clements.

Top: From left, Angie Benedetti, Jenna Comstock, Dee Holland, Lindy Peterson and Lori Hultin.

In addition to engineering, science, survey

and planning project work, many of our

employee-owners share their expertise

with statewide professional organizations.

Tim Brugger, a member of our

Transportation Market Group in Sheridan,

WY, has stepped into the role of secretary

for the Wyoming Section of the American

Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).

Tim was elected to the position at the

annual Wyoming Engineering Society

conference in February 2019 and will

eventually move through the ranks to

treasurer, vice president, president and

past president. His commitments to the

organization have included helping with

the student ASCE chapter mentoring

University of Wyoming engineering

students in events and design contests.

Hovering 35 feet above the raging rapids of Kootenai River in northwestern Montana, Kootenai Falls Swinging Bridge presents an incredible tourism destination and a major attraction to the Libby and Troy communities. After parking directly off Highway 2, a short trail provides passage to the Swinging Bridge and breathtaking Kootenai Falls.

Managed by the U.S. Forest Service, the bridge was originally built in 1937 by the Civilian Conservation Corps to provide access for firefighters to the north side of the river. In order to provide a safe and enjoyable experience for the growing number of tourists and reduce routine maintenance costs, the Forest Service decided to construct a new Swinging Bridge. Morrison-Maierle's bridge engineers created a new, safe, robust bridge that would provide the same thrilling experience and similar look as the old bridge. They used lightweight materials that could be helicoptered into this hard-to-access site. This project received an ACEC Montana Engineering Excellence Award.

CLIENT

OWNER

COMMUNITY

US Forest Service

Libby, Mont.

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

IT STILL HAS THE THRILL

Kootenai Falls Swinging Bridge Tim Brugger Steps in to Serve ASCE Wyoming

Top: The Swinging Bridge is a lot safer, able to hold more than five people at a time and still gives visitors the same thrill of walking over a raging river on a swinging bridge. Bottom, left: Since the location was hard to reach, helicopters were used during construction to bring in supplies. Bottom, right: All of the materials used in the design had to be lightweight, yet strong enough to support the new structure.

Helena Office Names New Transportation Leadership

Charlie Brisko stepped into the role as Helena

Bridge Market Group Office Leader and Scott

Fanning joined our firm as the Helena Roadway

Market Group Office Leader.

A longtime employee-owner, Charlie has been

with Morrison-Maierle since 2003. In his new

role, he is responsible for management of the

Helena Bridge Group and its projects.

Scott Fanning is one of Morrison-Maierle's

newer employee-owners who has more than 18 years of transportation experience. In his new

position, he spends time supervising and mentoring our roadway design staff, serving as a client

manager for Montana Department of Transportation and other roadway clients, managing roadway

projects, and providing design guidance when necessary.

Top: Charlie Brisko, right, is the bridge supervisor and Scott Fanning, left, is the roadway design supervisor.

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.

Bringing in New Expertise from Afar

U.S. Department of Agriculture


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

Moonlight Basin has an established water and sewer utility, but as a growing area, they needed additional wastewater treatment infrastructure. They used information and recommendations from a Morrison-Maierle Preliminary Engineering Report (PER) completed in 2015 to select a three-wastewater-treatment-plant concept in their three service areas. In 2019, they began implementing the WWTP #2 project.

Historically, wastewater effluent at Moonlight Basin was disposed of by subsurface infiltration chambers and seasonal irrigation on forest land. However, as the resort continues to grow, the forest irrigation disposal method is less desirable due to land-use conflicts. Morrison-Maierle, following Montana Department of Environmental Quality’s standards, designed a strategy to treat effluent to Class A-1 reuse standards.

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 will likely open up more discharge options such as groundwater injection or surface water as Montana’s regulatory agencies approve them. Additional methods could include the possibility of using treated discharge to make snow. This innovative design sets an example for water reuse in Montana.

Craig Nowak, our Great Falls Operations Manager, was the American Water Works

Association (AWWA) Montana Section’s recipient of the George Warren Fuller Award. His

36-year career has helped provide communities throughout the West with clean water. As a

lifetime member of AWWA and ASCE—organizations that have benefitted from his longtime

involvement—Craig and his contributions were honored at the annual conference in Spring

2019.

Craig was honored for his years of work in Montana and in the western United States. A

South Dakota native, Craig likely had no idea that he would become a civil engineer who

would design and oversee a 23-year potable water supply project in his home state. The

Mni Wiconi Rural Water Supply System, covering almost the entire southwest quarter

of South Dakota, is an $86 million project that now supplies 52,000 rural residents and

livestock with clean water for the first time in history.

CLIENT

OWNER

MB MT Acquisition, LLC

Moonlight Basin Water and Sewer

COMMUNITY

Moonlight Basin, Mont.

Moonlight Basin Wastewater Treatment Plant #2

Craig Nowak Receives 2019 George Warren Fuller Award

Top: Craig Nowak, third from left, joins his fellow Morrison-Maierle Fuller Award recipients (From left: Scott Murphy, Jeff Ashley and Nancy Cormier) at the Montana AWWA conference.

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 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.

Morrison-Maierle promoted two of its

senior water-wastewater engineers

into new leadership roles in 2019.

Casey Hanson, left, who was the

Billings office’s Market Group Office

Leader, now serves as the Director

of Technical Services. He focuses on

risk management and project quality

assurance and problem solving.

Casey joined Morrison-Maierle in

2004 as a Water/Wastewater project

engineer. He has also been a member

of the ESOP Administration Committee

for eight years, and chaired the

committee during the 100% ESOP/

S-Corp conversion.

With Casey's promotion, Kurtis

DeShaw, right, was promoted to

serve as the Billings office’s Water-

Wastewater Market Group Office

Leader (MGOL).

Kurtis has more than 13 years of

experience in Water-Wastewater

design and has been with Morrison-

Maierle since 2006. In his new

position, Kurtis will lead Billings' staff

of engineers, drafters and RPRs.

New Leadership Roles for Billings Employee-Owners


TOP-NOTCH SERVICESYSTEMS | Technology firm is now one of 27 firms in the West

to hold prestigious Managed Services credential

In 2019, Morrison-Maierle Systems was placed on the prestigious Channel Futures MSP 501 list. After receiving this certification, Systems is now among only 27 Managed Service Providers (MSP) across the western states in the Mountain Region and they are the sole provider in Montana.

The MSP Alliance is an international association established to verify that MSPs in its membership base are reputable, qualified and trustworthy. Since the MSP industry is largely unregulated, this certification is heightened and therefore instrumental to many Systems customers.

“Having gone through this arduous certification process, Systems clients and customers know now that their computer infrastructure lies with a competent and tested company," said Shaun Brown, Systems President and CEO.

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

serves his country with the U.S. Air Force.

Based at the Al Dhafra Air Base, David’s position with the Montana Air

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.

Back in the U.S.A.

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.

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

The operations and sales team at

Morrison-Maierle Systems spent

the first half of 2019 planning

and then executing a new look

for the website, getsystems.net.

After several good years with the

old site, the team decided that a

new look and new approach was

needed to match their efforts as

a top-notch Managed Services

Provider (MSP) throughout

Montana.

Looking Good in Cyberspace


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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