Most church building committees are built to represent the congregation and then asked to make decisions, which large groups do poorly. Here is how to structure a building committee so the right people are heard, a small group decides, and one person speaks for the church.
Campaign renderings are usually made before the engineers have placed a single speaker, diffuser, or rooftop unit, and the trees in them are decades old. Here is what an architectural rendering typically leaves out, and how to ask for the honest version before anyone writes a check.
Most architect interviews spend the hour on a portfolio of buildings designed for someone else. Here is how owners can prepare, what to ask, how to check references, and how to keep fees from quietly choosing the team.
A building project often takes long enough to outlast the leader who started it. Here is what actually leaves with that person, what a written decision record preserves, and how a new pastor or executive director gets up to speed without restarting the design.
