A Bethlehem furniture and home goods retailer is shaking up its business mode by splitting into two smaller retail locations. The change, it says, will also reestablish the company on Main Street in the city’s historic district.

Sponsored by the Lehigh Valley Section of the American Society of Civil Engineers (LVASCE), the Lehigh Valley Bridge Design Contest is an annual internet-based competition in which student teams will design highway bridges, using an award-winning educational software package called the Bridge Designer.

Loren Keim, owner of Century 21 Keim Real Estate in Allentown and real estate professor at Lehigh University said coworking has become a significant disrupter in the commercial office real estate market in the Lehigh Valley.

The latest draft proposal for a statewide “cap-and-invest” program, unveiled last week by the state Department of Environmental Protection, would create incentives for energy producers to turn away from fossil fuels and reinvest in green energy to mitigate the onset effects of climate change.

Engineers play a pivotal role in the field of sustainability, which relies on making the right decisions at the design phase as well as in ongoing continuous improvement initiatives.

Rutter’s, which has its headquarters in, York County, announced late last week that it had launched an investigation after it had received a report from a third party suggesting there may have been unauthorized access to data from payment cards that were used at some of its locations. 

Educators in the region’s colleges and universities say they are seeing a steady growth in students interested in majoring in engineering disciplines, and the ones coming into their programs are showing more knowledge and have more hands-on experience than in the past.

Buildings are subject to a variety of risks when they are under construction. Builder’s risk insurance transfers this risk to an insurance product for construction contractors and subcontractors.

Professional structural engineers have an excellent opportunity to develop more formal connections with emergency service responders and the public through engagement with forensic assessments, strengthening and rehabilitating existing infrastructure, as well as in preparedness, response, recovery and reconstruction activities.

Penn State Lehigh Valley in Upper Saucon Township is expanding its business program to include an accounting concentration.