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27 California Buildings • Q2 2022
Skyline Construction Appoints Jessica Carps as CEO Accomplished Manager Is One of the Industry's Few Female CEOs Skyline grew from $175M to $700M+ in revenue. Skyline Construction recently named Jessica Carps Chief “I am grateful for the opportunity to lead Skyline Executive Office of the San Francisco-based firm. She was through our next phase of growth and look forward to the first female leader to hold the COO title and to join working closely with the team Skyline’s Board of Directors. to continue our history of Carps has been recognized success,” said Carps. for driving company growth “Skyline is a special orgathrough a focus on people and nization, and I believe our operational excellence. performance is due in large An industry veteran with a part to our commitment to background in management people, operational excellence, consulting, manufacturing, and innovation. As we expand and accounting, Carps brings a across North America, I expect unique perspective to a changthat combination will make us ing industry. As one of the first one of the most respected and female leaders with a track sought-after commercial interecord of championing women rior construction companies in and diversity, and of oversight the industry.” for the company’s Employee Under her leadership, Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) Skyline has already grown program, Jessica promises to from a local general contracensure Skyline remains a tor to a national firm with people-driven organization. Skyline Superintendent Erik Russell with CEO Jessica Carps. nine offices, while working With only 3.25% of ENR’s with Fortune 500 companies across multiple geographies. Top 400 Contractors being female-led, Carps is paving Carps succeeds David Hayes who has served as CEO and the way for the future of the industry. During her Chairman of the Board since 2005. seven-year tenure, which included three years as CFO,
Two California Schools Rank High Among World’s Best in Architecture The University of California, Berkeley and the University of California, Los Angeles were ranked 8th and 18th respectively in the twelfth edition of QS World University Rankings by Subject, an independent comparative analysis of the performance of 230 Architecture schools across 47 countries. The pre-eminent Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) takes first-place while Delft
University of Technology in The Netherlands leapfrogs University College London (UCL) to take second. In total, 38 Architecture departments around the world have improved their rank this year, while 125 have remained unchanged and 49 have declined. The world’s most improved Architecture school is China’s Tianjin University, which jumps 13 positions to place 37th globally. The U.S. was said to be the world’s best country to study architecture for the number of top-100 programs, followed by the UK in second and Australia in third. Above: UC Berkeley campus. Photo: Adobe Stock.
