Grassroots Manufacturing

Published October 1998

Project Information
Building Owner:		American Agri-Technology Corp.
Building Location:		Great Falls, Mont. USA
Project Type:		New Construction
Principal Building Function:		to produce ethanol, vital wheat gluten, wheat and barley meal, and carbon dioxide using wheat and barley as raw material
Project Timeline		Oct 1998 Target Completion Last known status: Construction
Construction Cost:		$97,000,000
		About These Cost Figures
Building Information
Project Includes:		Manufacturing: Dry
Total GSF:		40
Building Services:		the 40 acre facility is the fist major project for American Agri-Technology- the goal is to become a major international maufacturing facility
Project Team
Profile Created 10/01/1998
Last Updated 04/04/2006
About the Reported Cost Figures The cost figures reported are supplied by the firms that submitted these projects for publication, which in most cases are the designers or builders. Whereas these sources are intimately familiar with their projects, they may not be fully aware of the owners' finally-realized and recorded costs. In some cases, costs are truly and completely accounted for, and in others they represent a near approximation of the final costs. Costs have not been adjusted for year of construction, nor has any attempt been made to make regional cost adjustments. Further, costs are not comparable on any kind of detailed standard costing model. Hence, it is possible for the cost of one building to include a steam boiler, while the cost of a comparable building might not include the boiler, if steam is being supplied from an already existing campus grid. Or, in another case, a building might include excess boiler capacity to supply steam to another building. Some submittals include fees or unusual site improvements as part of the construction costs, which others do not.