Cemetery Design

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- Cemetery Design
- A strong understanding of cemetery operations guides BSC's approach to cemetery design. Our team leader offers cemeterian experience and considers day-to-day function and operation as part of our design process. This enables us to provide cemetery solutions that meets the long-term needs of lot owners, as well as cemetery operators.
- BSC Group has been designing religious, municipal and private non-profit cemeteries for over 25 years, providing a full integration of engineering, landscape architecture, environmental permitting, and land surveying services to support efficient project implementation. We have applied this expertise to a variety of cemetery planning and design projects throughout the northeast, resulting in the design and construction of hundreds of thousands of graves.
  
  BSC's focus has been one of careful evaluation and design of each site to minimize development costs, maximize potential cemetery income, provide full access for grave openings and maintenance, offer aesthetic surroundings and plan undeveloped land for the future. Benefits of BSC's approach are discussed below.
  
  Development costs are minimized by understanding the site conditions of soil, groundwater and wetlands resource areas. Such costs are also minimized by incorporating Low Impact Development (LID) techniques into storm water management systems.
  
  Income is maximized by carefully considering the potential of each site to provide a variety of memorial types, including full casket grave space, cremation interment/inurnment, and mausoleums. This provides a variety of choices for lot owners, while increasing the cemetery's sales potential.
  
  Cemetery operations are enhanced by designs that provide full access for maintenance and grave excavation equipment. Our team carefully considers the equipment employed by each specific cemetery to assure that land slopes are workable for excavation and maintenance.
  
  Aesthetics are insured by carefully balancing operational and functional requirements with desirable landscape plantings and layout.
  
  The future is planned for by reservation of specific areas for alternate uses as determined by a master plan. Such uses may include niches, lawn crypts, mausoleums, crematories, disposal of surplus grave soils, wetland protection, access to abutting land, and similar issues.
  
  BSC maintains professional registrations in all New England states and are active supplier members in the New England Cemetery Association as well as the individual New England State Associations.