Faith Based

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Construction

As an owner’s representative with extensive construction experience, Building Solutions manages the entire building process or supplements your own team with available skilled manpower. As project managers, we establish teamwork and direct the activities of the architects and consultants on the client’s behalf. We may even be called upon to select the design team. In either event, we are the client’s principal source of cost management, scheduling, and constructability review. We help our client keep the project on-track, affordable, and synchronized with the stated goals.

As a construction manager, Building Solutions serves as the technical eyes and ears of the client, from managing budgets and administering contracts to assuring quality of construction and fair pricing. Whether we are on-site/full-time or periodically checking on the project in a cursory role, Building Solutions guarantees that it will add value.

Master Planning Management

We orchestrate the planner selection, schedule and organize the service delivery by the selected firm and provide the program budgets for the plan options. As construction experts, we offer input to the phasing plan. On behalf of the owner, we obtain the necessary site information and facilitate communications among parties that enable a well-informed final plan. On some assignments, we also provide programming information to the planner that includes an education-functional adequacy study, which supplements the condition assessment that is normally part of the facility audit.

Facility Audit

At regular intervals, more organizations are thoroughly assessing the condition of their physical plant—often their largest single asset. Most facility managers are busy with today’s tasks and cannot complete such a study in a timely and objective manner. A Facility Audit arms the manager with a tool to prepare more accurate operating budgets, guide fundraising, direct long-range planning and positively influence their accrediting bodies and “customers”. A Facility Audit, like a Property Condition Assessment, covers all building systems from HVAC and electrical, to roofs and finished walls. The Building Solutions Facility Audit report is tailored to be a maintenance guide and a capital planning tool, to be updated in a deliberate program, and the data resides in a powerful web-based environment for maximum flexibility and allowing broad information sharing.

Troubleshooting and Remediation

Some building repairs are not routine. On specialized projects, such as building re-roofing, chilled water plant replacements, curtainwall restorations, or parking garage repairs, Building Solutions can deliver specialized design and project management expertise. On those major projects that your on-site personnel cannot manage along with their daily duties, we provide the experience, knowledge, technical expertise, and familiarity with manufacturers that’s needed. Our value will be realized in better price competition, greater efficiency, reduced disruption of your facility, and warranty protections that sometimes are only available on professionally specified and supervised work. You can continue to focus on serving building occupants and rely on us as your project partner.

Preventative Maintenance Planning

Building Solutions is an ideal source of advice and planning of daily maintenance including formal preventative maintenance programs. Our staff includes facilities operations professionals, who deal with real world, every-day problems on behalf of our clients. They command the backing of a team of experts from every imaginable technical discipline. The combined practical experience and realistic perspective is brought to every assignment whether we are advising on maintenance staffing, training, evaluating, or installing a CMMS (computerized maintenance management systems).

Our value to you………

Building Solutions serves as a project leader, process manager, and technical advisor for real estate and facility development programs, building assessments, and facility problem-solving. We provide churches and other faith-based institutions with a comprehensive road map to maximize the value of their real estate—from facility assessments to sustainability and operations improvement programs.

In addition to creating these plans, we also implement them as project and program managers. Our extensive experience, deep technical expertise, and commitment to detail and customer service have made us the preferred choice for clients across the United States. We are proud to be recognized by the Catholic Diocese of Dallas as a preferred vendor for large capital projects for their institutions.

Since 1990, Building Solutions has been merging the understanding of the business of real estate ownership with technical expertise; we bring special value to our many long-term client relationships. This client loyalty is built on our distinct ability to reduce risk and increase return on real estate investments. Commercial and institutional real estate owners engage Building Solutions as advisors for development, condition assessment, construction and facility operations. Our clients tell us that we are distinguished by our advanced technical expertise and meticulous attention to detail. They know that every Building Solutions team includes someone who has been a professional real estate operator or developer and the typical Building Solutions team includes a specialist for every major building system.

Client Testimonials

Total client satisfaction is the definition of success at Building Solutions. It is a mandate of our company culture to clearly understand the customer’s goals and then to relentlessly pursue achievement of them. “How” we meet our client’s needs is every bit as important as meeting them. Staying in step with our client, so we can execute well requires deliberate and plentiful communication and it requires a commitment to excellence.

"It was an educational and collaborative experience and one I would do again with Building Solutions at the helm."

During the process of establishing a budget and scope of the project, Building Solutions was respectful of our needs and of the traditions of our church, they gave us expert and experiences guidance in order to get results that fit our goals. They are our advocates when working with the architect and other vendors. With firm yet gentle means they maintained our vision within the budget established, not only from the architect but also from ourselves; sometimes even the client can begin to run off course as ideas become more and more elaborate. They were not inflexible but they also did not bend to wishes that would derail the scope or the budget of the project. It was an educational and collaborative experience and one I would do again with Building Solutions at the helm.

Kathleen Reinhart | Former Chair, Building Committee | Church of the Apostles

"If we need your kind of expertise in the future, we will certainly be calling on you."

We needed a qualified project manager to enable us to complete the pre-construction efforts and maintain momentum, so our renovated space could be ready in time for the Advent and Christmas season.

Specifically, BSX added significant value by ensuring that we had timely and complete asbestos surveys and a practical plan for renovation, that met regulatory requirements, was attractive, and could be afforded. To that end, BSX brought additional bids to the table that we had lacked heretofore.

You clearly understand the requirements of the Diocese of Dallas facilities administrators and Building Commission.

Terry Wooliscroft | former Director of Finance and Administration | Catholic Community of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton

Project Portfolio

building of SJVCC Faith Formation Facility

St. Joseph Vietnamese Catholic Church | Grand Prairie, TX

St. Joseph Vietnamese Catholic Church consisted of a six-year old sanctuary building, a former sanctuary building, a parish hall, and rectory. The Parish initiated further development of its campus, involving construction of a new “Faith Fulfillment Center” and reconfiguring the existing parish hall with a new kitchen. To complete the site redevelopment, a new main sanitary sewer line serving the buildings was also to be installed in the entrance drive at a depth that does away with the need for a lift station.

The Faith Fulfillment Center is a 22,000 square foot, two-story building on the site of the former sanctuary building. The building provides classrooms, offices, and meeting spaces. The space on the west side of the new parish life center, between the new building and the parish hall contains an attractive outdoor gathering area and playground. An 1,800 sf kitchen addition was attached to the west side of the parish hall, serving a large, open meeting space, modernized and improved with a fire sprinkler system.

Overall budget was $6M. Building Solutions established project goals and guided the church construction committee in prioritizing “needs” vs. “wants” which determined the most cost effective design solution while avoiding costly programming errors and re-design efforts. We orchestrated the architect selection process and worked closely with the selected design team to develop efficient construction solutions ensuring the project was completed on time and under budget.

Watermark Community Church | Dallas, TX

Building Solutions was hired to perform an assessment of the physical condition of the property to identify any physical deficiencies in the real estate that might reasonably affect the attractiveness of the investment, advising the client of those that are discovered, describing them, and providing the best estimate of the cost of remedy.

The site consisted of approximately 10.91 acre tract of land improved with an eight story office building first built in 1970, numerous carports, and asphalt paved parking areas and driveways. The Church intended to enter into a long term lease for two floors of the building immediately and needed an assessment of the entire building so they may make an educated decision if they decided to purchase the building in the future.

Northridge Presbyterian Church | Dallas, TX

This client initially engaged Building Solutions to perform limited building assessments to inform a master planning effort impacting most portions of its aging physical plant. As high priority building systems were investigated and reported and subsequent master planning decisions were made, our role transitioned to providing cost guidance relative to major planning scenarios.

The planner and Building Solutions have defined options, along with their costs and developed phasing approaches to test feasibility of each option. The team has implemented the project and is nearing completion, which will entail major renovations and addition of approximately 20,000 square feet of new space.

We provide a roadmap for maximizing the value of your facilities