Building a Landmark
Celebrating 25 years of business, Big Timberworks offers diversity in sustainable building practices
Built with recycled redwood siding, metal, board formed concrete and recycled styrene block with stucco, this home in the Bridger mountain range
was meant to look as if it had always been there, a collection of several ranch buildings grown together. Photo By:
JK LawrenceWhat other builders consider
scrap, Big Timberworks has transformed into a custom furniture collection. For this room divider pressed tin was salvaged from a 1940’s granary and combined with
reclaimed cedar; the table features recycled plow disks; and the bench incorporates industrial gravel screen with reclaimed fir Photo By:
Karl NewmannThis modern addition was attached
to an existing log cabin located up Trail Creek, designed for two chefs to have room to maneuver and have a gorgeous view through the curved wall Photo By:
JK LawrenceThis home
was designed to compliment, rather than dominate, the landscape. It is built from stone from western Montana logs reclaimed from Great Salt Lake railroad trestle.
Salvaged metal roof, recycled from an old chicken farm, board-formed concrete recycled pickle-tank fir siding. Photo courtesy of Big Timberworks
One of the homeowners loved the clean sleek lines associated with metal and
modern design, and the other home owner was more interested in the warmth
that wood and organic shapes can lend. Photo By:
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Across the yard from the timber shop, is the metal shop, where heat radiates through a closed door where a metalsmith is fabricating another custom project. Further down the yard, the incessant buzz of the sawmill sounds. The scent of fresh sawdust seems ever present.
With visionary clarity, Adams has diversified the company’s services to include the timber framing work; custom metalsmithing; the sawmill where reclaimed woods are planed to be used as flooring, doors or cabinetry; architectural design and construction; and last year a custom-designed furniture line was added and is available at Ambiance Lighting Showroom in Four Corners. It is as though five businesses operate under one roof, explained Adams, comparing the different facets of BT to a five cylinder engine that can still run effectively even if one of the cylinders is down; each component of the business supports the other, yet operates independently. That translates to security in uncertain economic times, allowing five arms of the business carry the burden of production rather than just one.
“I think it makes us stronger (as a business) because we are not too specialized, so it gives the company a way to weather the peaks and valleys of a fluctuating market.
Of the services BT offers, the design-build projects are Adams’ favorite. He works closely with clients and resident architect Brian Brothers to achieve truly original residences. The nature of reclaimed materials ensures that each BTdesigned home is one of a kind and the collaboration between all facets of the business yields a distinctive creativity.
  
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