What We Do

Taylor Timber provides structural engineering for architects working on commercial, multifamily, civic, and institutional buildings, where the structural system is part of the architecture. Projects range from workforce housing and hospitality to civic buildings and renovations.

Expertise

Mass timber and CLT. Glulam panel systems, exposed timber details, and hybrid timber-steel assemblies. Taylor Timber starts from wood on every project where it fits.

Seismic design. Eight years at Degenkolb Engineers on hospitals and institutional buildings built a habit of designing from the long term. Chad lays out structures with complete load paths, redundancy, and ductility, which makes them simpler to build and easier to coordinate with the architecture.

Steel and complex framing. At the Missoula airport terminal, Chad proposed hanging the second-floor security checkpoint from the roof on custom steel trusses spanning roughly 70 feet, leaving the ticketing hall column free. He designs steel to be erected with few pieces and minimal field welding.

Embodied carbon. Taylor Timber is an SE 2050 signatory, and every project is evaluated for embodied carbon reduction.

Project Scale

Taylor Timber’s focus is projects with construction budgets of $3M to $20M, where the structural system matters to the architecture and a principal-level engineer on every project makes sense.

What We Don’t Do

Taylor Timber does not do limited-scope work, including pre-purchase home inspections, foundation assessments of existing residences, permit stamps for agricultural or accessory structures, and redline reviews of drawings produced by others. Limited scope puts risk on everyone involved, so every project gets a full set of structural construction documents. If you need an inspection, the Montana Board of Professional Engineers maintains a public directory of licensed engineers.

How We Work

Chad leads every Taylor Timber project. There are no handoffs to junior staff, so the engineer who understands your design intent is the same one answering the contractor's RFI on a Friday afternoon, without digging through someone else's notes. In the first conversation he can name a workable structural system, and he flags problems while the design can still change. Drawings come from a fully coordinated Revit model.