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#09 - Rachael Ferrera | Heavy Civil Infrastructure: Modernizing the Industry

56 min · 19. maj 2026
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Rachael Ferrera has spent nearly two decades at Zachry Construction, a Texas-based heavy civil contractor that builds the highways, bridges, and waterways much of the country runs on. A civil engineer by training, Rachael went from estimating multi-year, multi-billion-dollar highway projects to leading the document management build and ERP transformation that now powers Zachry's work in AI, analytics, and innovation across the business. Rachael walks us through her path from the estimating desk to the innovation seat, what it really takes to win adoption from crews who've worked the same way for decades, why heavy civil has its own rules that off-the-shelf tools keep missing, and how the industry is finally moving toward digital delivery on projects that shape entire cities. This is a conversation about the next frontier.

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Rachael Ferrera has spent nearly two decades at Zachry Construction, a Texas-based heavy civil contractor that builds the highways, bridges, and waterways much of the country runs on. A civil engineer by training, Rachael went from estimating multi-year, multi-billion-dollar highway projects to leading the document management build and ERP transformation that now powers Zachry's work in AI, analytics, and innovation across the business. Rachael walks us through her path from the estimating desk to the innovation seat, what it really takes to win adoption from crews who've worked the same way for decades, why heavy civil has its own rules that off-the-shelf tools keep missing, and how the industry is finally moving toward digital delivery on projects that shape entire cities. This is a conversation about the next frontier.

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