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.