March 3, 2026
Boots on the Ground, Minds at the Top
Women in Construction Week 2026 — those who level up and never stop building.
In construction, the job tells you who you are pretty quickly. You either rise to it, or you don't. For the women who've built careers at Stacy Witbeck, rising was just the start. Leveling up is the daily motion.
Becca Moeai started as a brick mason's apprentice and had no idea she'd spend the next decade becoming the person the hardest jobs get handed to.
Women now make up 14% of the construction workforce. The number is growing. The stories behind it are better.
Spotlight: Becca Moeai — Field Engineer
Ask Becca what gets her up every morning and she doesn't hesitate: her kids. It's the same directness she brings to every job site, and it's served her well across a decade in construction that started from the ground up, literally. She came in as a brick mason's apprentice on the NorthSTAR project for Sea-Tac Airport and was handed a simple mandate: keep the team moving.
"It was so loud, and there were so many things going on, so many different trades," she recalls. "I remember feeling defeated at the end of my first day. I was really green."
She came back the next day and kept coming back until she wasn't green anymore. Becca rose through the craft side of the industry into field engineering, backed by two associate degrees and a decade of hands-on experience.
When she made the move into field engineering, the tool bags stayed behind. A laptop and notebook became the new normal. She’ll tell you it felt like playing Super Mario Brothers — always on the move, learning fast.
The work paid off in a moment she didn't see coming. At a company Christmas dinner, a senior leader pulled her aside and told her that her name had been coming up in conversations she wasn't part of. The people responsible for the hardest work were asking for her.
What Becca builds on her own time might be her most important work. For the past three years, she has partnered with NAWIC to do advocacy and outreach inside Texas Department of Justice facilities, visiting prisons to speak with incarcerated women about careers in the trades. She leads resume workshops and builds trust with women the system has written off.
"When you grab hold of even just one corner of this industry, the way it can alter your life, and you can look at something and say, I had a part in that."
Becca's hope is that more people in the industry will join her in this work, using their own experience in the trades to open pathways for women working to re-enter society. Construction changed her life and she's determined to help it change others’.
In construction, your work speaks for itself. Becca's work has been speaking volumes.