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.
News Milan’s San Siro saved from demolition, plans for new stadium in jeopardy Milan’s Giuseppe Meazza Stadium, also known as the San Siro, has been saved from demolition owing to its historical significance. A statement sent to Tribuna from Lombardy’s Regional Commission of…
News €247m to be spent on modernising motorway between France and Italy A total of €247m in funding has been raised for modernisation and safety work on the A32 motorway that connects northwest Italy and France via the Frejus tunnel. The project…
News Webuild and Hitachi win section of €4.8bn Verona-Padua line A team made up of Rome-based contractor Webuild and Japan’s Hitachi Rail has won a section of a €4.8bn high-speed, high-capacity rail line between Verona and Padua. The Iricav Due…
News New stations open on Milan’s M4 metro line San Babila and Tricolore Stations have opened to the public on Milan’s M4 metro Line, bringing the total number of stations on the line to eight and allowing for passengers…
News Rome’s big new metro station to display unearthed artefacts Work has begun on a huge metro station in Rome that is set to become one of the city’s main transport hubs. Venezia Station is being built on Line C…
News Webuild and Ghella win €1.3bn Sicily rail contract An Italian consortium led by Webuild has won a €1.3bn contract to build a 30km stretch of the Palermo-to-Catania rail link in Sicily. The contract was awarded by state rail…
News Steven Holl Architects designs “awestruck” masterplan for Italian town Steven Holl Architects has unveiled its masterplan for the town of Prati di Tivo in Italy’s eastern Abruzzo region. The plan, which is divided into three phases, involves a community…
News €250m renovation in Milan to be second wave of urbanisation Italian architecture firm Piuarch has unveiled its designs for a major renovation of a city block in Milan’s Bicocca district. The €250m, 50,000-sq-m scheme, called “BiM”, will be a second…
News Webuild wins €284m contract to build 15km section of road in northwest Italy Italian contractor Webuild has won a €284m contract to build a 15km section of the Pedemontana Piemontese highway in Piedmont. Working on behalf of Italy’s state railway company, Webuild and…
News Work starts on €928m breakwater to transform Port of Genoa A Webuild-led consortium has started building a more-than 6km-long breakwater off the Port of Genoa to allow the port to accommodate the biggest ships. It will push the outer barrier…
News Architect to turn Milanese sand quarry into park with floating forests Milan’s Municipality of Segrate has asked Danish maritime architect Mast to turn a disused, kilometre-wide, 60m-deep sand quarry into a lake park with floating, forested islands. Mast said it would…
News Webuild team wins €934m rail tunnel project in Trento, Italy Webuild and consortium partners have won a €934m contract from Rete Ferroviaria Italiana (RFI) for a rail bypass at Lot 3A of a project in Trento, Italy. Webuild, which has…
News Italy’s Rina buys Patrick Engineering to enter US infrastructure market Genoa-based consulting engineer Rina has entered the US infrastructure market with the acquisition of Chicago consultant Patrick Engineering. Patrick was founded in 1979 and is active in the America’s transport…
News Webuild signs €1.26bn Italian roads contract Webuild and Pizzarotti have signed the €1.26bn contract to build sections B2 and C of the Pedemontana Lombarda Highway in northern Italy, after being assigned the project in September 2021.…
News Webuild team completes Milan metro section Italian contractor Webuild has handed over six stations on Line 4 of the Milan Metro (M4). The 5.4km section links the stations of Linate Airport and Dateo in the east…