by Erik Ely, Generis As a Generosity Strategist with Generis, I am asked on a regular basis about the timing of a capital campaign. Most of the time, churches underestimate the amount of time it takes to plan and execute a capital campaign. There are many factors that come into play. In the next two … [Read more…]
by John Scott, Scott-Long Construction Last time we talked about unforeseen conditions being a significant risk to the project. A church must rely on itās design team to guide them through mitigating these risks. Part 2 is about āScope Creepā. Control of scope creep rests in the hands of the building team. Every project starts … [Read more…]
by John Scott, Scott-Long Construction Every business transaction should perform a risk analysis, especially a church construction project. We see two main risks ā in Part 1, we will deal with unforeseen conditions in construction. What are unforeseen conditions and what could they cost? Typical budgets for church construction include a 10% contingency. It is … [Read more…]
by John Scott, Scott Long Construction Building your building from scratch? Ouch!Ā It is expensive, takes a long time and can be frustrating.Ā Why is it that is what most churches want to do?Ā The answer is simple.Ā If a church can build exactly what it wants to fit the vision for ministry, in the … [Read more…]
by Neal Roseberry, AIA, Principal, Lemay Erickson Willcox Architects Having practiced church architecture here in the Washington Metro Area for over 30 years, Iāve personally experienced and enjoyed the shift from an āold schoolā concept of Design-Bid-Build, that most often resulted in an adversarial relationship between the Architect and General Contractor, to what we now … [Read more…]
By: W. Neal Roseberry, AIA, Principal, FGM Architects Iāve written here before about an āIntegrated Design Teamā (IDT) approach to church architecture projects that tries to avoid old school design-bid-build adversarial relationships between the Owner (and Architect) and the General Contractor.Ā To say it again very simply, the IDT concept works to ensure that the … [Read more…]
by W. Neal Roseberry, AIA, Principal, LeMay Erickson Willcox Architects Until perhaps the early 1970ās, most church building projects were designed almost entirely under a single church contract with an architect. In those days, before the advent of current environmental awareness, building, accessibility and health codes, and high-tech audio-visual sophistication, an experienced single architect could … [Read more…]
By Neal Roseberry, AIA, LeMay Erickson Wilcox Architects So your church building is becoming a real frustration: too cramped, too awkward, too just-not-what-we āneed for the way we want to do church.Ā Or maybe you donāt even have a church building yet, and are wondering what the first steps are.Ā In our experience as church … [Read more…]
By: W. Neal Roseberry, AIA, Principal, FGM Architects Last week, as we finished a Building Committee meeting on a project that has an older existing building, one of the committee members said, āat least we didnāt spend an hour talking about toilets this time.āĀ We both laughed, and I pointed out to her that toilets … [Read more…]
By: Erik Ely, Generis Ā āI need to shrink our vision to meet our budget,ā said no leader ever! Yet, as leaders our actions often seem to say this. Ā Ā When we have a scarcity mindset instead of an abundance mindset, we put our organization in survival mode.Ā We become more concerned about building a bunker and … [Read more…]