Phil Williams

Phil Williams

Vice President of Sustainability and Technical Systems, Webcor

As a Vice President at Webcor, Phil is responsible for all sustainability and engineering efforts related to building construction, internal business processes and all institutional, private sector innovation, research and development. He directs all work relating to reducing environmental footprint and collaboratively promoting, innovative, sustainable processes, systems and materials.

Under his guidance Webcor was selected as the only construction firm to "Road Test" the World Resource Institute (WRI) carbon accounting/green-house-gas (GHG) scope 3 protocol.

To support construction industry research regarding Supply Chain Carbon Accounting, Phil lead Webcor along with six other west coast firms, through the University of Washington, to establish the Carbon Leadership Forum (CFL). He currently serves on the Industry Advisory Board for “CFL”.

Phil is Chairman of the San Francisco Mayor's Task Force on Green Buildings; which developed legislative recommendations that were adopted in 2008 for private sector green building requirements and was a key member of the Green Building Code working groups established for the Cities of San Jose and Oakland California.

In addition, he is the co-chair of the Strategic Development Council Building Information Management (BIM) subcommittee under the American Concrete Institute (ACI) foundation, a member of ACI Sustainability Subcommittee 130D.  In addition he is a member of Stanford University’s Center for Integrated Facilities engineering (CIFE) and is a member of the California American Institute of Architects (AIA) Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) working group.

He received his Bachelor’s in Engineering from Washington State University and holds a Professional Mechanical Engineering License in the state of California.

Webcor is acknowledge as one of the leading builders in California and is ranked in the top 40 largest specialty contractors in the United Sates. Webcor is a division of Obayashi Corporation who is regularly ranked in the top 10 of the world’s largest engineering and construction companies.