"What got us here, won't get us there."

Elizabeth Fox (BSCNE 2014), Technology Implementation Manager II at Barton Mallow, has received the 2025 Construction Engineering Emerging Leader Alumni Award.

Elizabeth "Liz" Fox was raised in northwest Indiana and graduated from Michigan City High School in 2010. She went on to study Construction Engineering Management at Purdue University, graduating in December 2014. While at Purdue, Liz was an active member of Phi Sigma Rho, a social sorority for women studying engineering, holding multiple leadership positions. She was also a member of the executive team of Gimlet, a service based Greek honor society. Additionally, she founded the Purdue student chapter of the United States Green Building Council (USGBC) and went on to hold a position on the Indiana USGBC Advisory Board, hosting the inaugural Women in Green luncheon celebrating Hoosier women in sustainable careers.

Upon graduating from Purdue, Liz went on to work for Barton Malow as a Project Engineer on the Campus Crossroads project at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana. She moved to Detroit in 2017 to work for Sachse Construction as an Assistant Project Manager in their retail division before returning to Barton Malow in 2020 joining the Virtual Design & Construction team. Since 2020, Liz has found her passion in construction technology leading Barton Malow’s Autodesk partnership and software adoption. She spoke at Autodesk University in 2023 about her collaborative workflow development with General Motors and Autodesk and in 2024 on the evolution of Autodesk training at Barton Malow. Autodesk highlighted her work in multiple online case studies and selected her as an Autodesk 40 Under 40: Champion of Construction.

Liz lives in a century home in the Historic Boston Edison neighborhood of Detroit with her husband, Josh, who she met at Purdue, and their two wheaten terriers, Teddy and Judy. She is the vice president of her neighborhood block club. She also co-leads a high school robotics team, FRC 4680 the AzTech Eagles from Cesar Chavez Academy High School in Southwest Detroit. In 2025, for the first time since Covid, FRC 4680 competed at the FIRST Robotics World Championship in Houston, Texas — the only public school in Detroit to qualify. Of all Liz’s accomplishments, this is the one she is the proudest of.

Visit the LSCCE Exposure account for a full gallery of photos and video from the 2025 Construction Engineering Emerging Leader and Outstanding Alumni Awards Banquet and Awards Presentation.