Resurrection Life Church Youth Center - Grandville, Michigan

Designed to support the church's expanding mission of reaching out to teenage youth in search of a spiritual home, this newest room boasts exciting lighting and multimedia capability, a coffee bar, pool tables and other games, and sophisticated concert-style lighting and sound systems. The lighting and sound systems, combined with the platform stage located at one end of the room, allow the Youth Center to bring a wide variety of performers to the facility. All of these factors directly serve the goal for which this building was constructed - to reach out to community youth.

The facility opened to a sell-out crowd of approximately 2,300 teenagers and their parents. The programs have consistently attracted audiences of 500 to 600 nightly - on weeknights. This room will provide support and room for growth for the Youth Center's programs for many years to come.

Capacity:	2,300
Opening:	July, 2000
Architects:	Progressive AE, Grand Rapids, Michigan
Acousticians:	Acoustical Design Group, Mission, Kansas

 Crossroads Community Church - Hyde Park, Ohio

Crossroads Community Church purchased an old Home Depot facility and began plans for a totally new complex of spaces. The project will be done in two main phases. The first phase Auditorium is built into the existing structural space of the former store. The auditorium/santuary in each phase is designed to house both worship and religious music, performances, and meetings. The first phase will be built as a flat floor auditorium/sanctuary with a platform stage, limited fly space and stage house. The second phase auditorium/sanctuary will relocate the auditorium to a yet-to-be built addition that will include sloped seating for 3,500 and a more complete stage, fly space and stage house.

Budget:	Phase I: $7.5 million
Seating:	Phase I: 1,200 Phase II: 3,500
Opening:	January, 2002
Architects:	Champlin/Haupt Architects, Cincinatti, Ohio
Acousticians:	Bruck Richards Chaudiere, Inc, Seattle, Washington

 The Cove - Asheville, North Carolina

The new facility designed for the Billy Graham Evangelical Association is for the training of ministers in the large scale preaching techniques developed by Dr. Graham. The new facility includes large and small meeting rooms, classrooms, a television production facility, and a large dining room that can be used for presentations and film/video showings. All of the spaces are multi-media equipped. We designed the architectural lighting and display lighting package in addition to the presentation lighting systems.

Opening:	November, 1991
Architects:	Odell Associates, Inc., Charlotte, North Carolina
Acousticians:	Coffeen Fricke & Associates, Inc., Lenexa, Kansas

 Crossroads Christian Church - Auditorium Sanctuary - Evansville, Indiana

Crossroads Christian Church outgrew their facilities. The congregation began plans for a totally new campus. The auditorium/sanctuary is designed to house both religious worship and religious performances and meetings, with a platform stage, fly space, and stage house. The design is planned for expansion in three phases. The phases expand the seating of the auditorium from 1700 to 2400 to 3000 without major effect on the platform or stage areas.

Budget:	$9.2 million
Seating:	3,000 by Phase III Auditorium
Opening:	January, 1999
Architects:	Schmidt Associates, Indianapolis, Indiana
Acousticians:	Boner Associates, Inc., Austin, Texas

 Zionsville United Methodist Church - Zionsville, Indiana

Zionsville United Methodist church had outgrown their existing worship facility and had created plans for a completely new campus. The facility is designed with a 1200 seat sanctuary and a multi-purpose room that is a gymnasium with a performance presentation area at one end. the congregation and the ministerial staff have come to recognize the role of alternative worship forms essential in congregation building. To suppor the balance between more traditional and newer alternative forms of worship, the building committee planned that both the sanctuary and the multi-purpose room should be designed to house worship, performances and meetings.

Seating:	1200
Architect:	The Odle, McGuire & Schook Corp., Indianapolis, Indiana
Opening:	September, 2001
Acoustician:	James F. Yerges Acoustics, Downers Grove, Illinois

 Chapel/Auditorium, Cedarville College - Cedarville, Ohio

Cedarville College is a religious educational institution and has combined the need for a new chapel with increased seating for their auditorium and performance functions. The chapel/auditorium is designed in the traditional Baptist Church plan with a platform stage and no fly space or stage house. The primary performance events are music related rather than scenery-based dramatic productions. Both performance events and chapel services are video taped and produced for broadcast on cable television and the radio network. In addition to the chapel/auditorium, the complex includes music, academic, video production support spaces, and a new 450 seat recital hall.

Budget:	$7.2 million
Seating:	3,000 Chapel/Auditorium 450 Recital Hall
Opening:	Fall, 1997
Architects:	S.E.M. Partners Inc., Columbus, Ohio
Acousticians:	Boner Associates, Inc., Austin, Texas