Rachel Contracting

Rachel Contracting is a heavy civil construction company specializing in earthwork, demolition, utilities, and aggregate resources. Its earthwork ranges from commercial grading and excavation to clean energy and infrastructure work, and its demolition team includes environmental specialists. The utilities practice installs and connects utility infrastructure, and the aggregates business sources, extracts, and supplies materials for projects. The company presents these services as one-stop civil construction, and combining site preparation, demolition, underground utilities, and material supply lets an owner or general contractor cover several early project phases through a single firm.

The company works throughout the Midwest and beyond on both public and private construction projects, bringing what it calls a "Minnesota nice" attitude. Featured work includes the Avienda project in Chanhassen, Minnesota, solar projects such as Bear Creek Solar in Lone Rock, Minnesota, and wind sites in South Dakota, Illinois, and Montana. Utility-scale wind and solar farms require extensive grading, access roads, and buried collection lines, work that draws on the same earthwork and utilities skills as conventional civil projects.

Founded in Minnesota in 2006, Rachel Contracting has grown into a multi-discipline construction company with more than $180 million in annual volume and over 1,500 completed projects across the Midwest. The company says its reputation rests on workplace safety and on people who deliver savings and value throughout the project lifecycle, an approach it calls doing the right thing. It reports an experience modification rate (EMR) of .68; an EMR under the industry baseline signals better-than-average workers' compensation loss experience, and owners often use the figure to screen bidders. Through the Rachel Foundation, the company funds academic scholarships, takes part in regional events, and matches employee donations.