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If you are considering church facility expansion, now’s the time to get moving with the process and here’s the reason why. Contractors, architects and engineers are looking for work. There are deals to be made if you have the expertise to know how to go about them. Unfortunately however, hard economic times are often a [...]
CHURCH BUILDING IS A DISTINCTIVE TYPE OF CONSTRUCTION. Have a contractor on your building committee? How about an architect? Well good for the church but you may be better off without them running the program. Years of consulting with churches have shown that an independent consultant acting as the owners representative saves the church money [...]
WE’RE THINKING ABOUT BUILDING A CHURCH, WHERE DO WE START? Every successful church building project starts with proper planning. Proper planning always requires expert counsel. Experienced church building consultants will bring that level of expertise to the table. Unfortunately, the industry is alive with “would be” consultants who have never built a church. Would you [...]
BUILDING A CHURCH? Please don’t make the mistake that scores of churches make when they are ducked into purchasing a metal building without first securing the services of an experienced church building consultant. Why? Because many steel building manufactures don’t design their buildings to meet the engineering required by the local municipality. As a building [...]
Having worked with scores of churches over the years, I can testify that concerns will be voiced over the sensitive issue of including “experts” on the Board or Building Committee. These members, though often with good intentions, can cause great harm to the process if they are not treated with godly wisdom and Christian love. [...]
One of the most difficult problems to resolve in a church building program is the issue of site work costs. Often architects will provide the church with an estimate of the cost but because the civil drawings have not been completed at the time of the bid, the estimate therefore may not be realistic. Most contractors [...]
As an experienced church building consultant I can tell you that much of my work is assisting churches that have found themselves in trouble in their building project. Excessive change orders resulting budgeting and scheduling issues is most often the case. The business of being over budget does not need to be the case. When done correctly, a [...]
When considering a church construction project always remember that there is a right way and a wrong way to go about the process. A common mistake churches make is thinking they have sufficient expertise within the congregation to build their own building. They falsely assume that this will “save the church money.” Rarely does this happen! A church building [...]
Before you hire an architect to design your new church building, make sure your leadership has defined their vision and fully understand your ministry mission. Churches often build buildings that they think they need but can’t utilize fully. The net effect of building without first understanding the ministry driven need, or the mission, often results in a [...]
Does your church need a new building and you don’t know where to start? That is a very common problem among churches and many times a lot of time lapses because they don’t know where to begin.
THE PATH THROUGH CONSTRUCTION CAN SEEM DAUNTING, BUT:
Your Church Rep will develop a plan suited to meet your individual facility [...]
“...to have completed our new headquarters within budget is an enormous achievement and one for which we will be permanently indebted to you.”
Dr. Clive Calver,
President of World Relief
Building for Ministry, by Richard White