Fort Lauderdale, Fla. - February 2019 - South Florida Business Journal has named Peggy Hogan Marker, president of Marker Construction Group, to its list of 2019 Influential Business Women. Marker founded Marker Construction Group - a construction management and general contracting firm headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, Florida - with her husband W. Grey Marker II in 2001.

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Women enter the construction industry in a variety of ways. Some might find they have a talent for a particular trade such as woodworking while others might come from a background in design or engineering. Then there are those like Peggy Marker who grew up in the industry watching and learning the basics of the business from family members.

Even so, it "was definitely a leap of faith,” she said, when she and her husband started Ft. Lauderdale, Florida-based general contracting firm Marker Construction Group in 2001 after Marker spent more than 20 years in marketing and business development.

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If you're employed in any capacity in the building industries, you've likely heard about the rise of prefabricated, modular, and off-site construction. While these factory-built modules, wall panels, and components still only represent less than 5% of construction spend in the U.S., growth in the sector has been phenomenal.

Just consider the increase in permanent modular construction (PMC), a subsector of off-site construction that utilizes stacked boxes that are delivered with finishes and fixtures pre-installed to a building site and are being used at educational, office, multifamily, hospitality, and healthcare properties. Revenues in the sector jumped nearly 6296 in one year to reach $3.3 billion in 2016, according to the Charlottesville, Va.-based Modular Building Institute (MBI), an industry trade group, before jumping another 18% to reach $3.9 billion in 2017, the latest period for which numbers are available.

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