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WASTING MONEY IN CHURCH CONSTRUCTION that’s what many churches do because they don’t know how to go about the right way. The correct method to follow is to hire a church building consultant who has construction experience, before you do anything else. He will guide you through a process that will ultimately save the church [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
How then do we get started?
Hold on a moment! Brother Jones, one of your wisest building committee members, has the answer to that…
“Well, Brothers and Sisters… I’ve been through this before and the first thing we need to do is hire an architect.”
W-R-O-N-G!! You don’t start with an architect… you start with a Needs [...]
Wikipedia defines value-engineering as: “A systematic method to improve the “value” of goods and services by using an examination of function. Value, as defined, is the ratio of function to cost. Value can therefore be increased by either improving the function or reducing the cost. It is a primary tenet of value engineering that basic [...]
In the church building business, a church building consultant working on behalf of the church as the owners rep, will focus on building issues that would exasperate the non-professional and resolve them quickly. In the church building business, the experienced owners representative, the building consultant, will drive schedule compliance which results in money savings.
Have you tried to personally give your car a tune-up lately? Like working on your car, in the business of church construction, things are not so simple anymore! Most often churches spend considerably more dollars than they need to when going about the building process. Most architects think of church design as just another customer [...]
“...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