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Ferrovial tasks Sektor with AI technology adoption support
Justin Stanton Editor, CM Digital
The Porto Metro Yellow Line extension, completed by a Ferrovial JV in 2024
Ferrovial has signed a three-year enterprise agreement with business transformation platform Sektor to support its global adoption of AI technology.
Initially, the agreement between Ferrovial and Sektor focuses on the enterprise rollout of OpenSpace reality capture technology and BIM-based logistics planning software, CM Builder.
Ferrovial global head of digital construction and data management, Ricardo Munguia, told BIMplus: “We have a five-year transformation strategy, the Abacus Project, originally for 2020 to 2024 that has been extended to 2026. [As part of that], digitalisation has four lines of focus: platforms, standardisation, progress monitoring and data. Our collaboration with Sektor focuses on progress monitoring technology and how to take advantage of data in a seamless way.”
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Munguia explained that Sektor’s platform- and vendor-agnostic approach plays a key role in supporting the adoption of various technologies across the business. Ferrovial foresees the collaboration with Sektor expanding to support a growing number of emerging and innovative technologies.
“We don’t want to improve one project, we want to improve the whole company in a standardised way as much as possible. Data is the key point.”
Ricardo Munguia
Providing the horsepower
Sektor CEO Angelos Nicolaou explained the relationship in more detail. “We provide holistic support, not just for the software, but for the company’s processes as a whole. The biggest problem with technology globally is adoption. Our job is to ensure the technology delivers on its promises made for efficiency and profitability.
“The digitalisation team at Ferrovial sets and leads the strategy, they tell us what they need to do and we give the horsepower they need to handle internal ticketing, additional training, admin work, knowledge capture and adoption monitoring. We’ve systemised all this and put it in a platform that’s easy for Ferrovial to monitor and helps teams work more efficiently. Our relationship is transparent and collaborative.”
He added: “Having a bird’s eye view of many companies, Ferrovial has really nailed the process of how a new technology moves through the pipeline from idea and initial conversation through to deployment.”
Munguia emphasised technology’s role as a tool to provide data and information: “We don’t want to improve one project, we want to improve the whole company in a standardised way as much as possible. Data is the key point. We always have in mind how to manage information, and how that information can travel from one platform to another, to improve efficiency.”
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