Fairfield, CT – Tocci Building Companies of Woburn, MA announced the award for construction of a major new church facility in Fairfield.
The Black Rock Congregational Church will be a totally new 103,000sf multifunctional facility designed by Wiles Architects in Bridgeport, CT.
The project features a 900+ person worship center with state-of-the-art audio/visual systems and tiered stadium seating.
It includes extensive educational spaces, children’s worship center, chapel, auditorium, gymnasium, commercial kitchens, offices and a Welcome Center which includes a library and a coffee/lounge area.
The site requires extensive blasting and demo of the existing church; construction will begin in June 2011.
Tocci’s VDC and Planning & Cost Engineering teams will play an instrumental role in the preconstruction process with full integration around the architect’s Building Information Model (BIM) to assist the team with design and preconstruction. The project will be the first major religious facility in the Northeastern US employing BIM technology from planning to fabrication.