The Design-Build team’s objectives were to deliver a quality facility within a fixed budget. Site amenities include the parking lot which, drives and sidewalks were laid out to allow easy connection between existing buildings. The site allows for future retrofit of buildings and parking lot expansion, while developing a service entrance on the rear of the building and limiting the exposure of predominant northwest winds.

Space allocation groups include office and administration, controlled training, kitchen trainer, classroom, warehouse, storage, common and shared use spaces, building support and circulation. The facility has four separate classified security zones: uncontrolled, controlled, open storage, and open discussion areas.

There are four seasons in Minot, North Dakota, as the joke goes: winter, winter, winter and construction. There is a very limited time to effectively construct anything in this Climate Region 7, very cold weather location. Construction challenges were further exacerbated by two major events. In late