Architecture
Types of Services
Barnes Design Group, P.C. offers a wide range of architectural services. The following is a listing of some of our services:
- Predesign and Owner’s Needs Assessment
- Programming and Space Analysis
- Existing Physical Facility Evaluations
- Church Growth Projections
- Preliminary and Schematic Design
- Full Construction Documents
- Structural, Mechanical and Electrical Engineering
- Project Value Engineering and Cost Control
- Construction Partnering
- Construction Administration and Site Inspections
- Contract Negotiations
- Post-Construction Review
- Vision Casting
- 3D “In-House” Computer Modeling
- 3D “In-house” Computer Animation and videography
Design Quality
Barnes Design Group, P.C. consistently exceeds their client’s design hopes and expectations by providing excellence in architectural and design services and by providing quality liturgical master planning services. To achieve this excellence, Barnes Design Group has formed a group of creative innovative architects, with a strong sense of mission, bound together in unity and integrity.
The “Vision Statement” of Barnes Design Group, P.C. states the following:
“Barnes Design Group will become a leading provider of innovative architectural design services of excellence.”
We are committed to assisting our clients in achieving their hopes and dreams through designs of excellence.
Building Delivery Systems
A variety of building delivery systems are currently available in today’s construction market. A building delivery system is the actual methodology that is utilized to plan, cost, design, build and eventually deliver the building to the client. Barnes Design Group offers a wide range of architectural building delivery systems.
- Traditional “Design-bid-build”
- Design-build process with local contractors
- “Partnering” process with a partnering contractor
- Negotiated projects
NOTE: For a full description and explanation of the building delivery system most beneficial to you, contact the office of Barnes Design Group.
Commissions
Mr. Michael D. Barnes, A.I.A., the CEO/Founder of Barnes Design Group, P.C. has been personally involved in over 1,000 project commissions.
Over the past 25 years, the firm has completed 40 hotel/motels, hundreds of residential and multi-family, 200 industrial projects, 25 restaurants, several hundred commercial and government master plan projects, 150 government projects, 50 shopping center and retail projects and over 400 churches.
Copyright Law
All work illustrated on this web site of Barnes Design Group, P.C. is Copyrighted. The copyright law defines “architectural work: as the artistic design and layout of a building as expressed in plans, drawings and especially as rendered in 3d computer models. The 1990 Architectural Works Copyright Protection Act amended the U.S. copyright laws to provide extensive safeguards for the designs of architects and engineers.
Simply stated, all reports, plans, specifications, computer files, field data, 3d computer models and renderings, notes and other documents and instruments prepared by the Architectural Design Professional as instruments of service shall remain the property of the Design Professional. The Design Professional shall retain all common laws, statutory and other reserved rights, including the copyright thereto.
Copying from these architectural plans or designs, even with minor modifications, without the express written consent of Barnes Design Group, P.C., by a contractor, owner, church or other design professional is a technical copyright infringement of the law of the United States.