Why Use Digital Church Plans?

The Historic Approach to Church Design

Historically, architects (not just liturgical architects) created church building plans using the design method of pencil and paper on a drawing board.  Within the last 20 years, computer aided design (CAD) became the predominate method of design, to the point where a church would be hard pressed to find an architect that designs any other way.

As church design progressed from paper to computer, one of the things that did not change was how architects priced their work.  Using pencil and paper, every church building plan, no matter how similar to previous plans, had to be done from scratch.  Today, a church architect can pull  a plan out of the computer, similar to the one the church has decided it prefers, make the modifications, and deliver a customized plan in a fraction of the time that it would take to design it from scratch.  Even so, the price of those design services was if they had done all the work from scratch - because, right, wrong or indifferent, that is the way it's always been done. To be fair, this is not true of all architects, nor is making the church's design changes a trivial task, nor is the creation of a church building plan the only design service the architect provides for their fee. 

Pricing Church Building Plans - A Revolutionary Approach

Digital Church Plans is all about providing cost effective church design by leveraging the value of the hundreds of church plans in an experienced church designer's computer, and providing everything from conceptual floor plans and elevations  to construction working drawings at the lowest possible price - often pennies on the dollar. 

Working construction drawings for a 15,000 sf church building could easily cost $70,000 or more!

Get these same church plans, ready to be modified by any licensed architect for $7,000 or less.

 

How is this possible?? It is not too good to be true; it's because the architect has already been paid to draw the plans by another church, and has retained the right to reuse the intellectual property.

How do Digital Church Plans Benefit your Church?

In addition to getting your church plans for pennies on the dollar (literally)

• The design process is shortened by months - which saves your church time, effort, cost and stress.
• You get complete* working construction drawings ready to be sealed by a local architect or modified to your church's needs.
• The church can get a copy of working drawings for construction bid very early in the process to determine project cost.
• With few exceptions, these plans have already been built by another church - someone else has worked out the kinks.
• From the time you select your church floor plans, have the working drawings in your mailbox (or your architect's) on CD within the week!
• Search our site for Free Previews of Church Floor Plans.
• Purchase low-cost, true scale, detailed floor plans with dimensions - available for immediate download from our church plans page (or church planes page if you had a typo!).  Perfect for design planning meetings, generating excitement, or use in a capital stewardship program.

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* Less the engineering plans for site work (unique to each site) and PM&E's (which usually change with any significant modification to the plan)