The luxury retail architect and design firm AZA has been tapped to conceive a new, freestanding specialty center for the world’s best watches and timepieces in Lower Gwynedd Township, Pennsylvania.
The Fahy Commons building at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pennsylvania, recently won three major sustainability awards. ATAS International manufactured the 24-gauge steel 2-inch Field-Lok standing seam metal roof panels, 15 1/4 inches wide, for the building.
The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation announced the approval of a Special Financial Assistance application submitted by the Plasterers and Cement Masons Local No. 94 Pension Fund, based in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, that covers 108 participants in the construction industry.
Dick Bus, president of ATAS International, headquartered in Allentown, Pennsylvania, was recognized in the 2023 Lehigh Valley Business’ Power 100 list. The list includes 100 leaders within the Lehigh Valley who shape the communities and influence the quality of life in the region.
There’s no shortage of research about the role proper lighting, acoustics and air quality play in creating a learning-conducive educational environment. Moreover, COVID-19 has inserted indoor air quality—minimizing exposure to airborne contaminants, viruses and bacteria—at the top of the list.
Miller Fabrication Solutions was named Employer of the Year for Indiana County by the Tri-County Workforce Investment Board. The award highlights the collaboration of business and workforce development in TCWIAB’s three counties and recognizes an employer in each county that has significantly contributed to the region’s workforce development system.
December JLT Reports for mobile home rent comps in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Tennessee are available now for purchase, including immediate download through Datacomp.
St. Luke’s Pediatric Specialties at the Lanark campus in Center Valley, Pennsylvania, is a 37,500-square-foot newly constructed building operated by St. Luke’s University Health Network. This medical office site consists of three floors equaling 12,500 square feet each.
R. L. Reppert, Inc. has partnered with Central Elementary School to organize a holiday drive to collect basic necessities and food items for low-income families in the Allentown School District. The holiday season is hard enough on families, but these students feel that pressure more than most due to the lack of basic necessities.
Educating the next generation of designers is a key objective of the NCMA Foundation. Penn State has had an architecture student design competition supported by the Pennsylvania Concrete Masonry Association and the NCMA Foundation for more than 20 years. The competition includes choosing a building program that is conducive to the use of concrete masonry as both a structural system as well as an aesthetic device.