Congregation Beth Or

Upper Dublin, Pennsylvania

Congregation Beth Or, a reformed congregation, has a new home at their 59,000-SF facility on a 16-acre site. McCloskey & Faber assisted the design team with acquiring conditional use approval from Upper Dublin Township for the synagogue.

An existing pond was redesigned and incorporated into the project as a retention basin for the synagogue with a naturalized perimeter wetland planting to provide “best management practice” (BMP) storm water management control and improve the environmental character of the site. McCloskey & Faber assisted in site layout design, aligning internal driveways, parking areas, and retaining walls in order to preserve an existing border of large evergreen trees around the site perimeter to buffer residential neighbors. Playground facilities and outdoor plazas were designed to work in coordination with the proposed building and the reworked pond area. To compliment and work with the site’s sloping contours, numerous details were prepared for retaining walls and ornamental metal railings and fences. Congregation Beth Or construction was completed in Spring 2006.