Catherine Woodworth
38, superintendent of the area
Hensel Phelps
Irvine, Calif.
Catherine Woodworth’s entry into the construction industry is an example of a textbook of how curiosity can open the doors. She says she started drawing earth plans to a young age and was “attracted” by science, technology, engineering and mathematics to elementary school.
In high school, Woodworth took autocad training classes for four years and a summer practice with a civil engineering company at the age of 16 put it on the way to his dream career.
“During that summer of my practice, I also went to the United States Aerial Academy for Engineering Engineering through the American Military Engineers Society,” says Woodworth. “The whole camp was the concept of creation, after design. The idea was that to be a good designer you had to know how to build.”
In the camp, participants designed concrete beams and sprinkle systems and created them, as well as other activities that helped them teach them about infrastructure.
His practice exposed Woodworth to the construction industry, with the experience “opening his eyes to what was needed to design infrastructure systems”.
After obtaining a Bachelor’s Degree in Construction Management from Florida University, Woodworth worked at Hensel Phelps in Miami, then moved to South California as the area superintendent to work on projects such as the $ 194 million Caltech Chen Chen Neurocence Research Building and the $ 2.3 billion program in Los Angeles Airport of work and Avol Deltain 2.3 billion dollars at Los Angeles Airport, where he directed the place of pause and around the place of pause and at the place of pause of 2.3 billion dollars. 3.
He revolutionized the large -scale apron pavement, developing a comprehensive plan and a cost monitoring system: his guide is still a valuable resource for similar projects today.
Woodworth joined the Project Development Team by 2023 as an area superintendent to provide field experience and design management to support new project tasks. He accredits his father, who retired after 23 years working as a civilian Air Force engineer, to instill in a sense of leadership.
“I didn’t want to influence our decisions in life,” he says. “It allowed us to create our own path and showed us the ethical aspect of working a team and participating in your community.”
Woodworth has continued to serve his community as a member of the Bouild Design Institute in America, where he is now the National President of Members and Chapter in the Western Pacific Region, the/Orange County Region.
