ArchitectColorado 2: Holy Trinity Renovation

The summer 2009 issue of ArchitectColorado includes two features on projects at Holy Trinity. ArchitectColorado is the professional journal of the Colorado Component of the American Institute of Architects. Our architect, Adam Hermanson is a member of the AIA. This issue has a focus on religious architecture. Holy Trinity and Integration Design Group are featured in [...]

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The Iron Triangle

The Iron Triangle of Project Management

The Iron Triangle (shown above) is a bedrock principle of project management. Every project since the dawn of time, from Stonehenge to the Space Shuttle, has had to deal with the triple constraints of Scope, Schedule and Resources. These are defined as:

Scope/Scale – what must be built
Schedule – when [...]

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Feedback: Pre-design Questionnaire

The handout shared at our 08 April 2008 Townhall Meeting included a one-page questionnaire asking for input from the parish. We promised to make an electronic version of the questionnaire available, and so here it is!
The committee would like to get your feedback on these fourteen different questions. Feel free to answer just the ones [...]

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What do we hope to accomplish?

Notes from the Renovation Committee meeting on 11 March:
What things do we hope to accomplish in this renovation project?

We hope to encourage and promote a greater sense of beauty and mystery in the liturgy.
The space should correspond to the increased beauty of the language that is being incorporated into the new English missal.
The language is [...]

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Top 5 (times 2) Priorities

After approximately one month of meetings, the Renovation Committee has a shorter list of items as our priorities. At our meeting on Tuesday, 11 March, architect Adam Hermanson helped us focus on our top priorities. Adam asked us for our top five, and we dutifully doubled his request and added one.
Here are our current [...]

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