PHOENIX, AZ — McCarthy Building Companies announces the promotion of Michaela Rempkowski to Director of Integrated Design for the firm’s national water group. In her new role, Rempkowski is leading the water group’s design services team, which focuses on providing design strategies management and implementation. Her team serves clients with design-build and alternative delivery water and wastewater construction projects across the country.

Integrated design delivery focuses on minimizing risk, enhancing quality and constructability, as well as facilitating the start-up and commissioning of water and wastewater treatment plants through ongoing project team collaboration. With her team, Rempkowski creates solutions to fold into the construction cost model, schedule, constructability, and value engineering feedback and safety.

“Michaela is taking McCarthy’s water construction team approach to an entirely new level by providing a deeper understanding of the design and clients’ perspectives in relation to our teams and identifying value-driven alternatives and solutions through every stage of the construction process, including during a project’s start-up phase,” said Joe Brunsman, Senior Vice President of Operations and National Water Team Leader.

Rempkowski joined McCarthy’s water team as Integrated Design Manager just prior to the start of the pandemic. By collaborating with fellow design managers across McCarthy’s various business sectors, she developed a program that applies the best integrated design strategies from each sector to water infrastructure construction projects and is successfully applying them nationally with her team.