BCCC Rain Garden

In 2011, Bethlehem Childcare Center was award a ‘mini-grant’ from the Mississippi Watershed Management Organization to construct a ‘Rain Garden’ at one end of the outdoor playground.  The rain garden serves several purposes: Providing for drainage of the play area Filtering runoff from the playground before entering the storm drains heading to the Mississippi Educating…

Community Room Acoustics

This project began with the observation that the Community Room, while an aesthetically pleasing and very functional meeting space, has some challenges with acoustics.  The vaulted ceiling and hard surfaces create a very ‘live’ reverberant room which has some benefit for music performance, but makes hearing spoken word more difficult.  Several users of the room…