Global design and BIM software provider Vectorworks, Inc. has released its first update for the Vectorworks 2024 product line, unveiling a new partnership with NCS Colour, the leading provider of color communication solutions and delivering...
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Remodel or Build New? Accessibility and Your Plan
Worship Facility editor Gene Lass and Nathan Parr, Facility Stewardship Specialist for Smart Church Solutions, discuss how Accessibility and ADA compliance can affect your decision to remodel your church or build a new facility. Takeaways include: The legal and moral...
Remodel or Build New? Accessibility and Your Plan
Worship Facility editor Gene Lass and Nathan Parr, Facility Stewardship Specialist for Smart Church Solutions, discuss how Accessibility and ADA compliance can affect your decision to remodel your church or build a new facility. Takeaways include: The legal and moral...
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...
Church Facility Projects – You’ve Moved In…But You’re Still Not Done
You’ve moved into the new facility and are enjoying the “new car smell” and excitement that comes with seeing the vision become reality. As you celebrate this momentous occasion, there’s still work to be done to keep this new building running at peak...
Worship Facility Podcast: Building Project Planning on a Budget
A growing church is a great problem to have, but at what point is it time to grow your physical building to facilitate your growing ministry? Join the Churches by Daniels team as they discuss preparing for a renovation or expansion, new construction, and the ins and...
Church Facility Projects – Preparing for the Capital Campaign
There's a phase with every church facility project that is all about raising money. While that may sound unappealing in ministry, the practical reality is any building project will require a significant financial investment. Thankfully, raising funds...
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....
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?
Owner Direct Purchase Program Benefits
In the current inflationary climate for construction projects, churches and other non-profits should not be passing up any opportunities to reduce their rapidly rising project costs. Leveraging their exemption from paying state sales tax is among the most beneficial...
Setting a Realistic Design & Construction Budget
Setting and adhering to a realistic target project budget is one of the most critical yet most difficult tasks for any project owner. It is often made more difficult in challenging economic times of labor and material availability uncertainty and rising...
An Accurate Project Scope of Work
A project scope of work, often referred to as “SOW” is an essential aspect of any design and construction project. It defines what is expected as an outcome of the project and is an essential first step in any project. Anyone who has ever planned a home...
CFX Facilities & Operations Seminars Teach about Building Management, Construction, and Operations
Facilities Managers, Executive Pastors, Elder Boards, and administrative staff all share the burden of being good stewards over the building and business operations of the church. That's why it's important for them to have the knowledge and skills needed to carry out...
Selecting your Design & Construction Team
Last month we covered the three primary project delivery methods; Design-Bid-Build, Construction Management, & Design-Build and reviewed the advantages and disadvantages of each method considering the challenging current construction market conditions. This...