Valrico, FL (Press Release) November 27, 2007 —Bruce C. Anderson of Straight Talk On Church Building, Church Design and Church Construction completed his first interview in a series of 52 hard hitting interviews designed to educate pastors and church members on the ins and outs of designing and constructing ministry space.” Mr. Anderson states that with over 3.5 billion in church construction volume each year in the United States, churches want to take responsibility in learning how to design the right ministry space, while at the same time being good stewards with God’s resources.

Although Mr. Anderson agrees that most churches desire to be good stewards of their congregational resources, in reality there is a lot of money wasted on purchasing land and developing unusable architectural plans each year that could have been avoided with the right education. In his interview with Chuck Jordan, the principal of the award winning Hyde Park Architects, located in Tampa Florida, Mr. Jordan talks about the various missteps and land mines that churches should watch out for in the master-planning process. In this 35 minute interview with “Straight Talk” Jordan gives the audience some eye opening tips that could literally save them hundreds of thousands of dollars, not to mention the several months of wasted time.

With almost a dizzying pace, Jordan lays out potential pit falls on zoning, land use regulation, building proximities, ingress, egress, trip counts, variances, building codes, concurrency and much more. Mr. Jordan very succinctly lays out the preparation work needed by a church, before they ever embark upon designing their ministry space. Check out the interview at www.brucecanderson.com/articles.html .



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