Worship

FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH

This project features a 500-seat worship area, a welcome center, classrooms, and a new porte cochere, seamlessly integrated with the existing church. Key challenges included designing 16-ft deep trusses to span the 86-ft clerestory, accommodating varying roof slopes and eliminating braced frames, requiring multistory moment frames for lateral stability. The roof structure used open web steel joists, metal decking, wide flange steel beams, and moment frames, supported by 9-ft deep bell-bottom piers and grade beams.