Vice President, McCarthy Building Companies
Julie Garcia is Vice President of Preconstruction for McCarthy Building Companies’ Southwest Region, where she oversees preconstruction, estimating, and design phase services across one of the country’s most active commercial construction markets. With more than two decades of experience, Julie has led preconstruction on some of the Southwest’s most complex higher education, healthcare, and commercial projects, including the University of Arizona Health Sciences Innovation Building, Valleywise Health Medical Center, Phoenix Children’s Hospital, and UC San Diego’s Jacobs Medical Center, and now helps guide her McCarthy team’s preconstruction work on the ASU Health headquarters. She brings cost certainty to projects early when the biggest decisions, including envelope and façade systems, are still on the table. A problem-solver at heart, Julie thrives on collaboration, leveraging McCarthy’s in-house subject matter experts, self-perform capabilities, and extensive estimating tools to align owners, designers, and trade partners around shared outcomes. She remains an active connector within Arizona’s design and construction community, as well as helping the next generation of builders grow. An ASU Honors College graduate and passionate mentor to the next generation of builders, Julie is based in Phoenix, where she and her husband raise their four kids.
