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Who leads the project and who is on the team? 1. Project Stages A project has a number of stages which need to be followed. These are covered by the complementary booklet to this one on “Your Guide to Church Growth Trust’s Architectural Services and the RIBA workstages”. Copies can be obtained from our office. 2. Momentum Progress has to be consistently forward to maintain momentum and with stages being closed out and recorded. Any attempt to reverse and review elements of the process does more than slow down the project. It increases costs through delay. This normally means an increased professional input and generally demoralises both those working on the project and those raising funds. Experience shows that delaying a project in this way is often due to an unwillingness to accept the direction of the project from its inception and is therefore counterproductive, unnecessary and brings no benefits. It is a bit like snakes and ladders! The snakes are avoidable events which drag the project down and backwards. Putting this right will nearly always incur more cost. Those involved in leading on building projects need to be disciplined and move forward on the agreed basis. 3. Church Growth Trust’s involvement The stages start with looking at the feasibility of the project. Church Growth Trust would expect to be involved
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