Sarah Rodovalho

Selected work

Case studies across hyperscale infrastructure, manufacturing, and the built environment.

Six selected programs from a 16+ year delivery career in the U.S. and Brazil.

  1. 01
    Data center · hyperscale

    Multi-building hyperscale campus

    Integrated Design Manager · Aligned Data Centers

    2025 — 2026 · USA

    Hyperscale campuses don't get strained because any one workflow is hard. They get strained because design, permitting, underground systems, and field execution all move in parallel — and the toughest problems live in the gaps between them.

    Sarah Rodovalho wearing an Aligned Data Centers branded blue hardhat and a hi-viz reflective construction vest with an American flag patch, smiling on-site at the hyperscale data-center campus during a conversation with another team member also in Aligned PPE.
    Women in Construction Week 2026, Aligned Data Centers — on-site at the multi-building campus. · Source ↗
  2. 02
    Data center · hyperscale

    Hyperscale construction-contracts program

    Data Center Construction Contracts — Project Manager focus · Microsoft (CO+I)

    2024 — 2025 · USA

    Hyperscale data centers are some of the most carbon-intensive structures in modern construction. Microsoft's mass-timber pilot in Northern Virginia is the industry's first serious attempt to change that — a hybrid cross-laminated timber, steel, and concrete design targeting 35% less embodied carbon than steel and 65% less than precast concrete.

    Microsoft Data Center Delivery Blueridge regional team gathered for a December 2024 group photo in a Microsoft conference room — about 25 team members including Sarah Rodovalho, with a project-milestone schedule visible on the wall behind them and a 'Microsoft DCD Blueridge' caption block overlaid on the image.
    Microsoft Data Center Delivery — Blueridge regional team (Dec 2024). · Source ↗
  3. 03
    Industrial · manufacturing

    Industrial & R&D facilities portfolio

    Technical Project Manager — Industrial & Workplace Projects · Tesla

    2023 — 2024 · USA

    The Lathrop Megafactory is the world's first dedicated facility for mass-producing Tesla Megapacks and North America's largest utility-scale battery plant. My time at Tesla overlapped its publicly announced doubling — from 20 to 40 GWh of annual production capacity.

    Eight women from Tesla in matching 'engineer like a girl' t-shirts and hi-viz vests, standing in front of the Tesla 700 building entrance — facilitators of the 2024 Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day at the Fremont Megafactory.
    Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day 2024 · Tesla Megafactory, Fremont — STEM-mentorship volunteer initiative. · Source ↗
  4. 04
    Retail · large-scale

    Passeio das Águas Shopping

    Design & Construction Manager · Aliansce Sonae Shopping Centers

    2013 · Brazil

    Passeio das Águas, developed by Sonae Sierra Brasil, was the largest shopping center in Brazil's Central-West region when it opened on 30 October 2013: 267 stores, 78,000 m² of gross leasable area, 4,000 parking spaces and an investment of about €150 million. It was a ground-up project I delivered from construction through commissioning and into ongoing tenant operations.

  5. 05
    Public transit

    Goiânia Bus Rapid Transit network

    Project Design Manager · Goiânia Bus Rapid Transit network

    2019 — 2021 · Brazil

    The Bus Rapid Transit corridor runs through the dense center of Goiânia, Brazil's tenth-largest city — a public-infrastructure program that had to reach functional opening while threading construction through active urban fabric.

    Project team on a recently paved Goiânia BRT corridor — about thirteen people, mixing construction crew in orange high-visibility vests with project-management staff wearing IDs and civilian clothing, gathered on the new busway between sloped concrete barrier walls. Goiânia's commercial skyline (ÉPOCA storefront, residential towers) is visible in the background. Sarah Rodovalho is among the project-management staff in the group.
    On the newly-paved BRT corridor with the project team, Goiânia — during the 2019–2021 design-management engagement.
  6. 06
    Healthcare

    Healthcare planning & design

    Architectural Designer (Healthcare Design) · Array Architects

    2022 · USA

    Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Camden, NJ (Virtua Health): a six-floor patient and clinical tower addition of about 245,000 sq ft and about 160,000 sq ft of renovation, valued at about $225M.