Opportunities Still Exist In The Bakken: Another Modular Housing Upstart -- Laurel, MT, Firm

Link here to Billings Gazette.com.

They opened System Building Solutions in the old Boise Cascade plant in Laurel, now owned by Fox Lumber Sales of Hamilton, on Nov. 1. Boman is the president and CEO and Auth is his plant manager. They have nine workers so far, who are getting on-the-job training by building a two-story, 20-room modular housing unit designed for use as an oil field man camp.

SBS plans to hire another nine workers in early February and then nine more every month for at least a year. Boman said they picked that number because it's the best size for training a new crew.

The production of high-density housing is the niche Boman sees his company filling, but he's open to anything his clients might want.

"What we are bringing to the market is simply construction capacity," Boman said. "If someone comes to us and says 'We want to build 500 single-family homes,' OK. We will consider that."

Laurel, Mt, 20 miles southwest of Billings, MT, on I-90, is about 330 miles from Williston, North Dakota, the heart of the Bakken.