News AS Roma unveil stadium designed by Populous Italian football team AS Roma has revealed images of its new home, as imagined by American architect Populous. A roadmap for the project is still to be announced, but a…
News Nuclear-averse Italy now wants small modular reactors Thirty-five years after shutting down its last nuclear power station, Italy is planning to restart its nuclear industry with small modular reactors (SMRs), the Financial Times reports. Energy minister Gilberto…
News Italy cleared to give €2bn for Sicilian semiconductor plant The European Commission on Friday agreed to let Italy offer €2bn in state aid for France’s STMicroelectronics to build a €5bn chip factory in Sicily. The company wants to build…
News Robotic factory to make 160 ashlar blocks a day for Turin-Lyon tunnel Webuild is setting up France’s first robotic ashlar-block factory to line the inside of Lot 2 of the Turin-Lyon high-speed rail tunnel. The company said the plant’s intensive automation will…
News The pressure’s on for tunnellers pioneering hyperbaric excavation in Italy In a first for Italy, contractor Webuild is using increased air pressure to create a hyperbaric atmosphere in a section of tunnel it’s building under Naples for the Naples-Bari high-speed-high…
News Webuild to construct factory in Italy to repair and upgrade tunnel boring machines Italian contractor Webuild has announced plans to build a factory in Terni, Umbria, to repair its 58 tunnel boring machines (TBM). The machines will be serviced after they finish a…
News Former Trieste petrol refinery to become park powered by ‘water batteries’ Carlo Ratti Associati (CRA) has designed a masterplan for a 365,000 sq m seafront park on the site of a former oil refinery. The masterplan will open up a previously…
News Webuild to put marine wildlife in aquarium while building Genoa breakwater A consortium led by Italy’s Webuild (40%) has explained its plan for protecting marine life affected by the construction of a breakwater at Genoa port. A team of marine biologists…
News Italy hopes to start world’s longest suspension bridge this year The board of directors of Stretto di Messina, the company formed to develop a suspension bridge between Sicily and the Italian mainland, has approved a design for the span, and…
News Five die on Florence site after concrete beam fails Five workers were killed and three seriously injured after part of a building collapsed on a construction site in Florence, Italy It happened Friday morning when a prefabricated concrete beam…
News Rome picks ‘forest city’ design for new science museum Rome has settled on a plan to turn an old military technology factory on Via Guido Reni in the Flaminio district into a forest-themed science museum. Italian architecture firm ADAT…
News Zaha Hadid Architects designs hydrogen fuel network for yachts Italian green energy company NatPower is planning to invest €100m in setting up green hydrogen stations for recreation boats in 25 Italian ports and marinas. A template for the stations…
News 19-acre vineyard tops Rafael Viñoly’s Florence airport expansion The design of a 50,000 sq m terminal for Florence Airport has been unveiled by Rafael Viñoly Architects, complete with a 19-acre rooftop vineyard. Thirty-eight rows of vines will be…
News New Turkish high-speed railway backed by UK, Italy, Poland, and Austria Export credit agencies from the UK, Italy, Poland, and Austria have joined Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) to secure €1.247bn to build a high-speed railway in Turkey. Turkey’s Ministry of…
News Bologna moves to shore up Italy’s other leaning tower The city of Bologna has begun a €4.3m project to prepare for the possible collapse of its famous, leaning Garisenda Tower, completed in 1119. The 48m-high structure leans at 4…
News Ayesa bags high-profile jobs in Poland, Italy Seville-headquartered digital and engineering consultant Ayesa has won two high-profile projects this month: a section of high-speed railway in Poland and a bridge in Italy. In Poland it will design…
News Vinci team picked to handle spoil from world’s longest rail tunnel A Vinci-led consortium has won an €800m contract to deal with 23 million tonnes of spoil produced in the boring of the 45km French section of the Mont Cenis base…
News Spanish-Italian JV picked for €650m railway round Mount Etna The Italian Ministry for Infrastructure and Transport has chosen a team to finance, design, and build a 10.6km section of a Sicilian railway with a development value of about €650m.