ROCKY BOY RESERVATION, Mont. - Stone Child Community College serves students of the Chippewa-Cree tribe who live on the Rocky Boy Reservation in northern Montana. This year the community college, one of 32 in the nation dedicated to educating Native Americans and preserving their culture, brought three new buildings on line: a cultural learning facility named Sitting Old Woman Hall; a library and student services building; and Kennewash Hall, a 25,000-square-foot academic and administration building.
For Kennewash Hall, a hydronic reheat Taco LoadMatch system with VAV was installed, and it is now providing daily indoor comfort for students, instructors, and administrators. For this design-build project, the tribe's architectural firm, Springer Group Architects, convinced college officials that a Taco LoadMatch hydronic system would not cost much more than the all-air system that was originally called for, and would provide a comfortable indoor atmosphere within the two-story building through the cold Montana winters.