About Lloyd Flowers

Lloyd Flowers of Phoenix, Arizona, project director for McCarthy Building Companies, earned a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from Missouri S&T in 1988. He began his career as an engineer at the Illinois Department of Transportation, then joined McCarthy Building Companies as project engineer in 1991. Flowers became McCarthy’s first Black superintendent in 1998 and its first Black project manager in 2001. During his 32-year career, Flowers has led 26 projects with a construction value of over $1.3 billion with experience that spans the education, healthcare, transportation, manufacturing and municipal sectors. His experience includes the $15 million air traffic control tower at Scott Airforce Base, the $55 million expansion to the Federal Reserve Bank, the $90 million South Campus addition for BJC HealthCare, the $1.2 billion William Beaumont Army Medical Center replacement project in El Paso, Texas; and currently a $50 million applied research facility for the University of Arizona in Tucson. He has earned several internal awards for skillful project leadership and received the Modern Day Technology Black Engineer of the Year award and the Associated Minority Contractors of Arizona 2022 President Advocated of the Year.