The construction of the new 3,500 seat Green Acres Baptist Church worship center required massive civil engineering improvements to the site.  Before construction start the site was occupied by 14 residences, a church building, playground and parking lot.  For the civil engineering part of the design and construction phase coordination, Jerry Halcolmb of H-H Architects, Dallas, selected The Brannon Corporation as sub-consultants to design site grading, drainage, utility extensions, paving and retaining walls for this $21.5 million project. 

The addition to the church required Brannon engineers to provide construction documents for the relocation of a collector street, extensive re-grading of the site to flatten the natural terrain enough for car parking, design of traffic circulation and pavements, and design of storm sewer extensions to catch the tremendous storm runoff generated by new asphalt parking lots and a 140,000 s.f. roof. 

Brannon project manager Bob Breedlove, PE, coordinated all the surveying and platting, processed the zoning changes required by the city, street closings and dedications, utility relocations, as well as performing the site grading and pavement designs.  Walks and pavements, steps and ramps were designed for accessibility of the physically handicapped members.  In addition, Brannon engineers designed adjacent parking for the church on other parcels of land to generate more than 350 additional spaces badly needed for a church of some 9,500 members with three Sunday worship services and two Sunday School sessions.

For more information on the project contact Green Acres Baptist Church at www.gabc.org or Bob Breedlove at breedlove@brannoncorp.com.