H. J. High completed the two phase renovation of the Children’s Ministry at First Baptist Orlando. The project brings new life to the facilities to engage children and youth. With new classrooms, nursery rooms, and worship centers, the three-story facility benefits from state-of-the-art technology and modern, whimsical design. 

The First Baptist Church of Orlando Children’s Ministry renovation project includes a full interior renovation of four total floors in two children’s ministry buildings and the addition of a three-story connector building that provides an architectural walkway between buildings at every level. 

The feature element is “Emily’s Slide,” a two-story spiral slide dedicated to a young church member named Emily who is in a brave battle against leukemia. The exciting new facilities will serve the church members for generations to come.

The Grove Bible Chapel consists of a pre-engineered metal building with additional framing at the entrances to make them more pronounced. This framing features brick and insulated metal panels with windows located high above the entrances to allow natural light.

The church features a 3,825 SF Sanctuary that has a capacity for 542 parishioners as well as 83 people on the stage. There is also a dedicated youth ministry room that can fit over 150 students. The facility also features nursery rooms, a welcoming common area, a cafe, dedicated ministry offices as well as a meeting room.

As Discovery grew, it found its existing facility too small to accommodate all those who wished to worship there. The new Discovery Church found its home in an old Sports Authority building that had recently closed. Refurbishing the existing building along with several adjacent closed retail spaces, Discovery, along with H. J. High and Baker Barrios, created a warm, inviting space for their parishioners.

Installation of a pre-engineered building was done in the sanctuary to “raise the roof.” That, along with a state-of-the-art audio/visual system makes worship a truly enlightening experience. The children’s ministry includes several classrooms, nurseries, and a dedicated sanctuary for the church’s Youth.

As the new flagship campus, the new Discovery Church will guide people on their spiritual journey for generations to come.

McGregor Baptist Church Grace Building was constructed on the church’s main campus in Ft. Myers, Florida. The one-story building includes a middle school, competition basketball gymnasium with spectator seating for 850 fans, a physical fitness center and associated locker rooms, a multi-purpose practice gym and youth assembly auditorium with a stage and related audio/projection video/lighting features. There is also an administration and classroom facility for the middle school and youth activities.

Unique to this building is the “funky industrial” design for the youth. Envision exposed building structural and mechanical components painted with bold colors, stained concrete floors, high intensity warehouse lights, undulating floating suspended ceiling elements bordered with neon and LED lights, suspended two-way projection screens, plasma screens, video game arcade, and a sound system to beat the best trunk thumpers one can imagine.

H. J. High Construction was chosen as construction manager for the Pine Castle United Methodist Church sanctuary and classroom building. The building is approximately 57,000 square feet and three stories tall, and includes a 1,250 seat sanctuary, chapel, classrooms, children’s church with a stage, and an administration office area. The building is primarily a pre-engineered metal building structure with conventional steel framing for the intermediate floors. The exterior is insulated metal wall panel and brick accent with the entrance and narthex area enhanced with full height curtainwall glass systems. The site is located on Church property across the street from the existing Worship Center.

The three-story facility includes a 1,250 seat sanctuary, classrooms, nursery, youth auditorium, church offices, and a spacious lobby. One of the most unique aspects of the Master’s House is the storefront glass installed in the shape of a cross.

H. J. High served as Construction Manager for Westside Baptist Church’s Sanctuary located on a new 31-acre site. Construction included a two-story educational wing, administration offices, choir rehearsal room, preschool area, and a full kitchen.

The Worship Center is designed to seat 1,500 people. It later will be turned into the fellowship hall as the Church expands. Construction of the facility took under 12 months.

H. J. High served as Construction Manager on Westside Baptist’s new single-story Family Life Center building. The project consisted of site development and site improvements, multipurpose sports/meeting room, classrooms, offices, cafe and youth activity facilities. The building is a combination of pre-engineered metal building structure for the multipurpose facility and load bearing CMU with light gauge metal trusses and standing seam roofing for the remaining building area.

H. J. High provided Construction Management services for Trinity United Methodist Church’s new Worship Center. The facility is designed to seat 1,500 people for worship and 750 for banquet seating. A large folding divider wall can be utilized for space efficiency.

The project also includes a two story wing surrounding a playground area, administrative spaces, music ministry and adult education facilities.

The Bill & Vonette Bright Global Collaboration Center in Orlando was founded with a very specific goal in mind: to educate and cultivate great Christian leaders across the globe to transform cities and ultimately change the world. And when you visit this building, you’ll understand why this is a tremendous place. When Vision360 called on us, we were delighted to be a part of this large-scale spiritual effort and we took on the additional role of assisting with their fundraising efforts. This added to the collective effort and the overall focus of the project as a building but also as a cause.

For everyone involved, Vision360 is much more than a building: it is a structure that is creating something truly unique and wonderful inside and out. Our positive relationship with Vision360 began with a building and continues with a great mission. And for each person who touched this project, Vision360’s Collaboration Center touched him or her right back. The Bill & Vonette Bright Global Collaboration Center became a place that now stands for hope and the power of love during a challenging time in our history.

Located in the Moss Park community of Orange County, the 56,000 sf, two story building is ideally situated on 33 stunning acres with lush, beautifully manicured gardens that naturally refresh and inspire. The interior rooms of the facility look out onto this amazingly serene landscape but the rooms themselves are also quite lovely in their own right. The extraordinarily elegant yet simple prayer room design calms and invigorates. The tilt wall construction of the building also includes a sanctuary, baptistry, administrative offices and numerous classrooms, as well as a full service kitchen, dining area, recording studio, outdoor prayer garden and a complete nursery and daycare facility.

Bell Shoals Baptist first sought our expertise in March of 2000 but we didn’t commence work until April of 2006. It was during that six year period we developed milestone project estimates that made the most sense for the client while we also established a wonderful and continuing long-term relationship with them.

To construct a sanctuary of this magnitude required a great deal of proactive pre-planning due to the complicated structural requirements and project sequencing. During the project we encountered several challenges that could have resulted in schedule setbacks but through fervent problem resolution we were able to remain on schedule.

One of the greatest construction challenges we encountered at Bell Shoals was the construction of the 134 concrete tilt panels on an expedited schedule. Because the tilt panel design was incomplete when the panel forming and placement of the rebar began, numerous design clarifications and changes had to take place. We realized it was imperative to put a superintendent on site whose sole duty it was to coordinate and field verify every aspect of the panels’ dimensions, locations, penetrations and nomenclature.

The sanctuary itself proved to be a significant obstacle in construction due to the sequencing required. With creative thinking, however, and precise problem-solving, we were able to truck in various vital components of the interior as well as the structure, including the seating tiers’ long precast concrete planks and the massive steel truss girders that supported the sanctuary roof.

The result is a marvelous building of worship featuring a travertine fountain outside, massive architectural columns, vaulted ceilings, stained glass accents, ceramic tile flooring and the latest in audio/visual equipment. This impressive 2,800 seat auditorium displays a 35’ cross adorning the east elevation of the building and is illuminated beautifully at night.