June 9, 2008 – Montana Tech, Butte, MT
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Montana Tech is pleased to announce a leadership gift in the area of faculty support for their comprehensive campaign Strengthening Foundations…Ensuring the Future. Barnard Construction Company, Inc. of Bozeman Montana, has agreed to give $160,000 in support of the General Engineering Department. The funds will be used to establish The Barnard Professorship.

“This gift will help Montana Tech establish a new construction position within the General Engineering Department,” acknowledged Chancellor Gilmore, “Public-private partnerships are imperative to the future growth of all of our departments.”

Tim Barnard, CEO of Barnard Construction said, “We are pleased that we can work with Montana Tech to do this. We have a number of Montana Tech graduates working with us that have contributed greatly to our success, so it is nice to be able to do something that helps Montana Tech continue to provide high quality education to their graduates.”

“We are thrilled to be collaborating with Barnard Construction to provide our students with the best possible education in Construction Engineering. Let the dirt fly” exclaimed Butch Gerbrandt, General Engineering Department Head at Montana Tech.

Mike Johnson, President of the Montana Tech Foundation said, “We have been seeing a lot of excitement around faculty salary supplements. Traditionally this is not an easy fund raising area, but with great corporate citizens like Barnard momentum is building.”

Barnard Construction began as a one-man operation in 1975. Since its founding Barnard has expanded into a multi-million dollar heavy civil contractor doing business all over the nation. This expansion has also involved the formation of four other affiliated companies. Barnard does construction in the areas of dams and reservoirs, tunnels, utility pipelines, oil and gas pipelines, and environmental reclamation.