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The construction of your facilities is the final step in the building process, and the one in which the church can save or lose the most money.

At this point, you should be ready to live out the maxim of Proper planning prevents poor performanceand saves money. We will havecarefully calculated your needs and financial ability, and developed a church building plan according to those criteria. Fundraising for your church building program (if needed) is underway and your construction financing is in place. You are now ready to build.

The Church Development Services Construction Division can assist in building your church as:

In many circumstances, it will be in the churchs best interest to allow us to build the plan that we have developed. We will help the church in any way we can, including acting on behalf of the church as its agent to help select, negotiate, and oversee the project.

Church Development Services will oversee the construction of your facility using a contracting method known as Open Book Construction Management (OBCM).

Open Book: Everything is 100% open and transparent to the church. For every sub-contractor and supplier, the church can see every bid, every award, every invoice, every check, and will see monthly reconciliations.

Construction Management: You pay the subcontractor and suppliers directly, and we manage the project and process. This reduces the financial risk to the church and allows the church to get the lowest real price on a line-item-by-line-item basis instead of picking a GC with the lowest overall budget.

Quite simply, it is because we believe it provides the best solution for the church. The method inherently provides the lowest cost of construction, gives the church the utmost control, andunparalleled transparency you know where every dollar is spent and why.

Our implementation of OBCM is a Design/Build process utilizing an Integrated Project Delivery model,except that instead of a fixed maximum price, we help the church build for the lowest real cost.

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Church Construction - Church Development | Church Development