Paragon 360 Completes Renovation Project for Edmond's First Baptist Church in Edmond, OK

	Video display systems included two 18' x 10' ReveLux LED walls, along with a 30' x 10' center stage ReveLux StoryGlass Stage-Starlight Series LED wall and multiple ReveLux confidence monitors.

Edmond's First Baptist Church in Edmond, Oklahoma, reached out to Paragon 360 in May 2023 to discuss a video upgrade project. Over the next several months, the conversation expanded to include a full sanctuary renovation, with Paragon pitching its full-scale, turnkey, design-build service offering. By September, Paragon was contracted to start design work on the $4M project.

The church was looking for more effective ways to use its platform; also desired was a complete refresh and modernization of the 1,400-seat worship space to include an LED wall behind the pastor. Paragon's scope of work included new audio, video, and lighting (AVL) systems, rigging, extensive acoustic work, and custom- fabricated architectural and scenic elements throughout the space. Paragon also led the design process on the project and acted as the general contractor through its own Xperience Construction.

Audio systems included loudspeakers from Fulcrum with Powersoft amplification and Yamaha consoles, onstage personal mixing systems from Allen & Heath, and Paragon's signature choir monitoring system featuring JBL speakers. The systems also included Shure wireless racks, hardware, and floor pockets. Over 4,000 sq. ft. of custom FabriTRAK acoustic work was designed and installed on upper and lower balconies, front face of balcony, back wall of seating areas, and faces of existing catwalks.

Video display systems included two 18'-by-10' ReveLux LED walls, along with a 30'-by-10' center stage ReveLux StoryGlass Stage-Starlight Series LED wall and multiple ReveLux confidence monitors. Video camera and production systems included routing by FOR-A, Panasonic cameras, and FUJINON lenses, and ReveLux displays for control room, Multiview, and more, integrated with existing owner-furnished equipment.

Lighting work on the project included new LED platform lighting, plus architectural and LED house-lighting systems. Platform lighting included fixtures from Chauvet and Prolights controlled by a High End Systems Road Hog 4-21. The system included new power and data distribution from ETC and Ace Backstage. LED architectural lighting throughout the scenic elements featured Environmental Lights, while over 100 fixtures from Meteor Lighting were used in the new LED house lighting.

All the AVL gear was set up, built, tested, and labeled in Paragon's prep shop in Springfield, Missouri, before being packed and loaded for jobsite installation, saving countless days of onsite labor. This sped up the project timeline and ensured a smooth installation phase.

Paragon's custom scenic, staging, and architectural elements featured LED illuminated faux stone and wood treatments on the upstage wall, illuminated columns on stage ends with 20 custom illuminated columns on the side walls of the space leading to the balcony, elegant baptistry treatments, an onstage LED support wall surround, choir side walls, custom illuminated cross, center riser steps and railings, and a custom pulpit with etched acrylic. All these units were fabricated offsite at Paragon's facilities during the time general construction work was going on and then transferred to the jobsite, shortening the project delivery time and saving significant money.

Paragon provided all the general contracting via its own Xperience Construction (XP). The general construction work included demolition of existing pews, flooring, wall coverings, and stage fronts in addition to modifications to the existing choir loft and removal of the existing acoustic island ceiling. XP's scope of work also included framing, sheetrock, painting and finish work, new flooring, extensive low and high voltage electrical work, stage re-design, and sprinkler fire extinguisher systems. XP also removed the old baptistry, installed a new one, and did some refresh work in the foyer.

Paragon's turnkey, design-build process, where architectural infill treatments are manufactured in a controlled environment and then transported to the jobsite as modular components, saved time and money. Stuart Holland, communications director at Edmond's First Baptist Church, commented, "It was one company, and in my mind, we saved a ton of money, but we got way more than we paid in value. We interviewed a few contractors and integrators for the project, and no one really matched what Paragon could do."

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