Worship & Assembly

Demand-controlled ventilation with CO2 sensing, sized to the peak assembly occupancy per ASHRAE 62.1, modulates outdoor air to real occupancy while never dropping below the area-based minimum. We pair it with large-volume heating and cooling tuned for rapid pull-down, so the room recovers comfort quickly after days of setback and idles efficiently when nobody is there. That swing — zero to design load in minutes — is the defining load problem of this sector, and we design the controls and capacity around it rather than a single design-day snapshot.

Yes — quiet is a design target, not an afterthought. We set an NC 25-30 background and let it drive fan selection, duct velocities, equipment location, and isolation, specifying silencers, low-velocity distribution, or displacement ventilation where the noise budget is tight. A tall, reverberant assembly room hides nothing, so we coordinate with the acoustician and AV designer to be sure mechanical noise never competes with speech or music.

Yes. We provide clean, isolated technical power with dedicated grounding so the audio and broadcast systems stay hum-free, plus dimming and DMX512-controlled house and theatrical lighting infrastructure, company switches for touring production, and preset house-lighting controls. We coordinate pathways and rough-in directly with your AV, broadcast, and rigging vendors so the production systems land cleanly behind the seal of the licensed engineer of record on your project.

We design emergency and egress illumination across the full occupancy and coordinate fire alarm to NFPA 72 and the IBC. Group A occupancies of 1,000 or more trigger an emergency voice/alarm communication system, so we design for voice intelligibility in a reverberant room — the evacuation message understood, not merely audible. Egress, exit signage, and assembly life safety are coordinated across disciplines so the set clears review.

Yes. Restroom fixture counts are sized to the assembly occupant load and the intermission rush per the IPC or UPC, so the building serves a full house when everyone moves at once. For fellowship halls and event kitchens we design the plumbing, gas, and peak-demand hot water, and coordinate Type I hood exhaust and grease where there is real cooking — all matched to how the room actually fills and empties.