As seen in the Sandy Hook and Nashville school shootings, glass doors and window are easily breached. What’s more, they pose a significant risk to life during bomb blasts and natural disasters when broken shards become airborne. Join our upcoming webinar to learn how...
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Is Your Facility Limiting Your Growth? Building God’s Way Seminars Offer Cost-Effective Solutions
- SPONSORED CONTENT - Investing in and caring for your facilities is not just about maintaining a building; it’s about ensuring that your ministry remains a vibrant and effective force for positive change in the lives of its members and the community it serves. The...
Defining & Designing a Secure Space
These 4 steps can help you create a place where people feel safe to be vulnerable in their worship
Worship Facility Podcast: The Best Facilities Management Takeaways from CFX Podcasts 2023
1230 Media Founder Carl Barnhill and Worship Facility editor Gene Lass discuss the best takeaways related to facilities management from the 2023 season of podcasts. Points include: How to communicate facility needs to church leadersip How to plan facility needs...
Building a New Synagogue for Brooklyn’s Kosev Congregation
The Project Brooklyn-based Kosev Congregation contracted commercial and worship architecture firm IMC Architecture to design a prominent Jewish cultural institution in Brooklyn. Specifically, they wanted to build a new synagogue to accommodate: 300+ visitors a series...
Retrofitting Church on the Move and Forward City Church
While the concept of retrofitting isn’t new, we are seeing it gain traction and increasing popularity in the world of construction and church facilities. A large part of this is a very practical reason: time and cost savings. You can purchase and renovate a building...
Worship Facility Gear Report: Church Facility Management Software
Church properties often have a variety of facilities to manage, from public meeting spaces, to libraries, community resource hubs, washrooms, as well as the HVAC systems heating and cooling them. The more people use these assets, the more value they provide to your...
Are Your Facilities Shaping You?
Have you ever heard the old adage about the 2 happiest days of boat ownership? “The day you buy it and the day you sell it." If you're a boat owner, this saying may best describe your ownership experience. So what about our ministry tools? While most of us will never...
How Different Types of Loudspeakers Can Help in Challenging Church Spaces
Worship Facility editor Gene Lass and Dale Shirk, Senior Applications Engineer, Loudspeaker Solutions Group for Biamp discuss how to overcome acoustical challenges of different church spaces. Takeaways include: Types of audio challenges How Sanctuary architecture can...
Avoiding Tech Disasters in a New Construction or Remodel
It’s easy to get excited about the new mixing console or video wall. But it’s the smaller details that can make or break how well your production systems support the ministry long term.
Download: House of Worship Loudspeaker Design Guide
Providing intelligible speech and music reproduction is the main purpose of any house of worship audio system. However, houses of worship come in many sizes, styles, and configurations, creating a multitude of audio challenges. This House of Worship Design Guide...
Are Your Facilities a Barrier to Your Ministry? Part II
Last week, we discussed how a church’s building design communicates to its attendees. While growth is the goal for a church, commencing a church expansion project requires careful consideration. If you expand too early, you might not see the return on your investment....
Are Your Facilities a Barrier to Your Ministry?
A church’s building design communicates to its attendees before they even step through the doors. While growth is the goal for a church, commencing a church expansion project requires careful consideration. If you expand too early, you might not see the return on your...
CFX is Looking for Facilities Speakers
The 2023 Church Facilities Expo (CFX) is looking for church leaders who are passionate about helping others! Come share your tips and strategies that will help attendees build their skills and training so they can focus more on their mission and less on the...
Discover the Facilities Track at CFX Essentials
At the first-ever CFX Essentials mini-conference in Charlotte April 28-29, attendees will be given the full conference experience in a shorter time, for less money. With the shorter amount of time allotted, there will only be two tracks: Production, which we looked at...
Learning Series: Project Design and Construction: Keys to Success
REGISTER AND DOWNLOAD NOW Just as there are many steps to take when actually executing a design-build project, there are also many steps to take before and during the process to ensure that it all goes smoothly, is completed on time, and stays on budget. Delve into...
The Owner’s New Building Checklist
Building additions or renovations can be so challenging that the temptation is very real to “take the foot off the gas” near the end of the project when a successful project completion is within sight. Don’t do it! The manner in which a new project owner works...
Church Design Trends For The Future
Moving forward, how churches will operate is evolving before our eyes. As a result, churches and campuses will have to evolve as well. We reached out to architects, builders, and designers and asked them to share some resilient and enduring trends that promise to influence the future of church design.
Learning Series: Overcoming the Challenge of Accommodating Special Needs Through Design and Technology
REGISTER AND DOWNLOAD NOW Although churches are technically exempt from the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), many of these requirements have now been instilled into the International Building Code, which any organization, including churches, must adhere to when...
Are You an Owner of Choice?
Let's face it. The current economic environment is arguably unprecedented when considering the combination of supply chain challenges, inflation, labor constraints, and geopolitical uncertainty. Those factors combine to make it very difficult for any construction...
IT & AVL Integration in Construction Planning & Projects
Why is it important to include IT and AVL integration into the planning process of any new build or renovation project your church is undergoing?