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Woodruff Construction is an employee-owned general contractor, offering award-winning design-build, construction management, and project development services to clients across Iowa. Their team not only strives to achieve their clients’ goals and visions, but to also provide clients with an extraordinary enjoyable building experience.

In 1956, Leonard Woodruff and Jack Evans founded Woodruff-Evans Construction, a general contracting firm that served Fort Dodge and the surrounding communities. Since opening its doors, Woodruff has continued to grow as a result of its client relationships, skilled employees, safety culture, and best practices. They expanded to four offices in Ames, Fort Dodge, Iowa City, and Waterloo. Each office has a primary geographic region, roughly a 60-mile radius, so that their workers can be home at night with their families.

The company has seen two generations of leadership over the past 66 years, with current president Don Woodruff overseeing the company his father helped found. In 2020, Woodruff transitioned from a small ownership group to an employee stock ownership plan. This ownership change was driven by the company’s mission of building the future of its families, clients and communities. For Woodruff employees and their families, it means ownership interest in the company and an additional qualified retirement plan. For Woodruff clients, it means further cultivation of customer service. Employees at all levels of engagement have a vested interest in client success.