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A worldwide religion selected us to design the site features of their religious buildings including grading, hardscape, softscape, and all details and site improvements. BSW International and local architects were selected to design prototype buildings for an international expansion program starting with temples in five South American countries. The design was to emphasize permanence, elegance, and ease of maintenance. The sites had a wide range of climatic conditions. The local expression and the sites attributes were to make each project unique but with identical building footprints. The documentation was in the local idiom as well as English, and all dimensions and quantities were metric. Estimates of probable cost were in U.S. dollars with local cost impacts. Site lighting, grading, graphics, planting, irrigation, and placement of six different structures were to be provided. Some sites required structural parking decks and underground facilities of various natures. The neighborhood surroundings were to be upgraded on some sites and all facilities were planned for views and massing to work in a regional as well as on site context and for day and night. Rainfall varies from 15cm to 1.5m per year and soil conditions from clay to sand. Compatibility with surrounding uses and the local municipalities approval were required. The program revised after the first site package ground breaking for the Bolivian project. Our complex and detailed thirty-six site package drawings were electronically transmitted to Bolivia in one hour whereas Federal Express normally took four days. The architects on this project were BSW International.
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