Type: an 180,000 square foot renovation of a Walmart and an Albertson’s to create the new Flatirons Community Church.
MEP Services: We provided design and built electrical engineering services for this project.
Category: Church
Walking into the tiered entryway of this building, you feel like you have more room to breathe. The architecture interacts with the sky and mimics it—very appropriate for a spiritual center framed by our majestic Rocky Mountains.
In our project design, we incorporated electrical and lighting systems to accommodate a 60,000 square foot open mall. We created this space for members to build community, have deep discussions and share information. Features included: a fireplace, kitchen, café seating area, check-in kiosks, column televisions and projectors, an education wing mixing classrooms and teaching areas with projection walls and stage lighting, a youth wing with a multi-purpose room, kitchen, and flexible break-out room, an administrative office area and an auditorium with a mezzanine that would seat 4,000 people.
We designed high bay fluorescents in open-to-structure spaces to provide the ambient lighting in the mall with jelly jars integrated throughout highlighting different uses of the space. In the auditorium and multi-purpose room, we included both high bay fluorescents for work lighting, incandescent cylinders for house lighting, provided power for future LED lighting and roughed-in stage lighting.
According to the Building Owners and Managers Association International, “Class A” buildings are the “most prestigious buildings competing for premier office users with rents above average for the area. Buildings have high quality standard finishes, state of the art systems, exceptional accessibility and a definite market presence.
The LEED System is designed to rate new and existing commercial, environmental, institutional and high-rise residential buildings for environmental performance from a “whole building” perspective over a building’s lifecycle.
