BGW Chicago Area Church Builder
& Christian School Builder
The exclusive BGW Builder for the Chicago metropolitan area is Staalsen Construction, a company founded in 1940 by Henry Staalsen. Over the past 70 years, Staalsen has built or remodeled more than 300 church projects. Throughout his life, Henry was active in the founding and development of numerous ministries, including Fisherman’s Bible Club, North Side Gospel Center, Awana Youth Clubs and Camp Awana, Bible Rescue Mission, Pacific Garden Mission, Sunshine Gospel Mission, Camp Sun-Chi-Win, Emmaus Bible College, Pine Trail Camp, and Wycliffe Bible Translators.
The exclusive BGW Builder for the Chicago metropolitan area is Staalsen Construction, a company founded in 1940 by Henry Staalsen. Over the past 70 years, Staalsen has built or remodeled more than 300 church projects. Throughout his life, Henry was active in the founding and development of numerous ministries, including Fisherman’s Bible Club, North Side Gospel Center, Awana Youth Clubs and Camp Awana, Bible Rescue Mission, Pacific Garden Mission, Sunshine Gospel Mission, Camp Sun-Chi-Win, Emmaus Bible College, Pine Trail Camp, and Wycliffe Bible Translators.
Chicago Area Church Construction Experts
In addition to their local expertise with church and school construction, Staalsen Construction is skilled in delivering the unique BGW Approach that has consistently proven to cut construction costs by reducing conflict, scheduling delays, change orders and product mark-up. This includes leading coordinated ministry efforts on every job site and supporting churches and Christian schools in having a spiritual impact on construction workers through The BGW Ministry of Construction program.
This partnership combines the church building expertise and excellent reputation of the Staalsen Construction team throughout the Chicago Area with the national church design experience and broad network of services offered to ministries through the Building God’s Way program.
Through a unique delivery model we call the Trinity Partnership, BGW Architects and Staalsen Construction are aligned from the very earliest stages of design and take a team approach to exploring the best ways to reduce costs for the ministry.
Staalsen Construction plays a crucial role in the BGW preliminary design charrette process, helping keep costs in check as we launch design ideas and explore solutions. Following the charrette, BGW Architects and Staalsen Construction work together to develop a preliminary cost estimate, taking into account all potential site costs, fees and other soft costs that could be involved in order to provide the ministry with a realistic financial forecast for the project.
This partnership combines the church building expertise and excellent reputation of the Staalsen Construction team throughout the Chicago Area with the national church design experience and broad network of services offered to ministries through the Building God’s Way program.
Through a unique delivery model we call the Trinity Partnership, BGW Architects and Staalsen Construction are aligned from the very earliest stages of design and take a team approach to exploring the best ways to reduce costs for the ministry.
Staalsen Construction plays a crucial role in the BGW preliminary design charrette process, helping keep costs in check as we launch design ideas and explore solutions. Following the charrette, BGW Architects and Staalsen Construction work together to develop a preliminary cost estimate, taking into account all potential site costs, fees and other soft costs that could be involved in order to provide the ministry with a realistic financial forecast for the project.
