A University Town Building Like It Means It.
Missoula’s housing conversation turned into housing construction: infill along the Clark Fork, student-oriented product near the University of Montana, and townhome and apartment projects filling the valley from the Rattlesnake to the Bitterroot road. What Missoula has never had much of is specialty floor trades — gypsum underlayment here has typically meant importing a crew and accepting whatever batching habits arrived with it. We import the machine instead. The Smart Batch® GC-1 weighs every ingredient of every batch against the programmed mix design and archives the record to the cloud, so a Missoula pour is provably identical in quality to one poured next to our shop.
Building in Missoula
Missoula’s reformed zoning code opened the door wider to multifamily and missing-middle construction, and university demand keeps a floor under it — a student rental market where sound separation is a daily lived experience for every neighbor. Wood-frame assemblies here carry the standard IBC load: STC 50 / IIC 50 between units, 1–4 hour UL-rated fire assemblies, gypsum topping over acoustic mat. Radiant heat is common, valley winters are real, and pour scheduling has to respect both — our fast setup and 40,000 sq ft/day capability keep the underlayment phase short enough to fit the season, and weighed water content keeps dry-down predictable when the air outside is freezing and the building is running temporary heat.
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