SELECTED WORK BY CHAD TAYLOR, SE OF RECORD
Projects
Airport
Benefis Women’s & Children’s Center
TAYLOR TIMBER
Floral Park Flats
Multifamily Residential — 24 units, workforce housing · Butte, Montana · Architect: Range Design & Architecture
Light wood framing designed around a discipline of efficiency, modularity, and constructability. Every structural decision calibrated to keep costs within reach of working families in Butte. Exposed timber stairways and corridors bring warmth and character.
Johnson Street Shelter — Modular Bathroom Facility
Civic / Community Infrastructure · Missoula, Montana · Architect: Hone Architects + Builders · Pro bono
Mass timber restroom and shower facilities for a temporary homeless shelter, designed from the outset for relocation. Glulam timber panels with integrated pick points — steel detailed outside the envelope to eliminate thermal bridging. Can be lifted, transported, and bolted to a new pad foundation at another site.
University of Montana College of Business Stage
Civic / Academic · Missoula, Montana · Architect: Paradigm 3 Architecture
A performance stage for the University of Montana's hospitality program — students book and produce live shows here for academic credit. The structure is a symmetric pentagonal CLT roof, approximately 30 by 30 feet, with glulam panel walls designed as a cantilever timber frame for seismic and wind loads. Clean inconspicuous joinery throughout. Conduit routed through concealed chases in wall and roof panels.
Ron Clausen Observation Pavilion
Civic / Outdoor Structure · Rock Creek Confluence, Five Valleys Land Trust · Architect: Paradigm 3 Architecture
A sloping CLT roof with glulam columns and knee-braced beams for lateral loads. Concealed Rothoblaas hardware throughout. Column bases elevated on galvanized steel structure for long-term durability in an outdoor environment. A quiet, well-detailed piece of infrastructure for a place worth preserving.
Armitage Bar and Restaurant
Commercial — Hospitality, 8,000 SF · Chicago, Illinois · Architect: Range Design & Architecture · Construction documents in progress
A floating structural brick spandrel wraps the building perimeter, supported on slender columns tied to the roof structure, with the glass exterior wall set inboard, creating a continuous covered walkway around the building. The brick reads as suspended. Careful integration between the steel roof, masonry wall, and embedded steel column stubs makes the architecture work.
PRIOR EXPERIENCE
Selected projects completed by Chad Taylor as Structural Engineer of Record while at Morrison-Maierle.
Missoula Montana Airport
Transportation / Civic · 150,000 SF
Missoula, Montana
Architect: A&E Design
Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine
Medical / Educational · 88,000 SF
Great Falls, Montana
Architect: LPW Architecture
Benefis Women's & Children's Center
Medical / Institutional · 46,000 SF
Great Falls, Montana
Architect: LPW Architecture