Amy Marks joins California software vendor as executive and technology "evangelist" in its construction group after departing her prefab software startup XSite Modular.
The Chicago Regional Council of Carpenters was awarded its largest-ever backpay award by the Illinois Department of Labor in ruling that a developer and two subcontractors must pay $1.1 million for violating prevailing wage law on a senior housing project in Northbrook, Ill.
Chicago developers, contractors, unions, the United Way and even Rahm Emanuel's last campaign manager are coming together to bring women, african-americans, latinos and other minorities into the building trades.
Design firms and construction companies absolutely should become technology companies, but becoming a tech company is much different than becoming a software company.