News Webuild’s Lane completes $232m Bronx bridge A team of SPC Construction and Lane Construction, the US subsidiary of Italy’s Webuild, has completed work on the Unionport Bridge, which spans the Westchester Creek in the Bronx. The…
News Tower-sized ‘mega caisson’ sunk for Genoa’s new breakwater Webuild has installed the first of 35 “mega caissons” for the Port of Genoa’s new breakwater. The concrete structure stands 33m tall, equivalent to an 11-storey building. It’s 67m long…
News Brenner Base Tunnel breaks through to connect Austria and Italy The first tunnel connecting Austria and Italy under the Alps has broken through some 1.4km beneath the Brenner Pass, which forms the border between the two countries. When completed, the…
News How the world’s tallest dam is shaping up in Tajikistan Tajik president Emomali Rahmon visited the under-construction Rogun hydropower dam this week to instruct the main contractor, Italy’s Webuild, to “work around the clock” while the benign summer weather lasts.…
News Webuild wins €1.6bn Italian high-speed rail contract A consortium led by Webuild and including Ghella, Pizzarotti and Seli has landed a €1.6bn contract to build a 22.2km section of the high-speed railway under construction between Salerno, just…
News Earthquake strikes after protesters oppose bridge to Sicily Thousands of people took to the streets in the Sicilian city of Messina on Saturday to protest against a €13.5bn plan to build the world’s longest suspension bridge over the…
News World’s longest suspension bridge to be Sicily’s first link to mainland A Webuild-led consortium today won the contract to build the long-planned bridge over the Strait of Messina in Italy to provide the first fixed link between Sicily and the mainland.…
News Webuild wins $238m Florida interstate job The US subsidiary of Italy’s Webuild has won a $238m design-and-build contract to expand the Interstate 75 in north-central Florida. Lane Construction will provide auxiliary lanes between interchanges, bridge replacements,…
News Lane bags $337m contract to widen I-85 in North Carolina Webuild Group’s US subsidiary Lane has won a $337m contract to widen a 16km section of the I-85 highway in Gaston County, North Carolina, a busy commuter route in the…
News Webuild wins $600m contract for Riyadh’s “Beverly Hills” Italy’s Webuild has won a $600m contract from the partially state-owned Diriyah Company for a commercial and cultural development centre in Diriyah, Saudi Arabia. Diriyah is on the northern periphery…
News Webuild team wins €2bn contract to extend Rome’s Line C An Italian joint venture of Webuild and Vianini Lavori has won a €2bn contract to build a 4km extension of Rome’s metro Line C with four new stations. The new…
News Webuild selected for €1.1bn woman and baby hospital in Perth, Australia Italy’s Webuild has signed a €1.1bn contract to design and build a hospital for women and children in Perth on behalf of the government of Western Australia. The project will…
News Webuild awarded $147m compensation for Argentina project The government of Argentina has been ordered to pay Italy’s Webuild $147m in compensation for breach of contract over a road and bridge project completed in 2004.
Projects Webuild finishes 18-month restoration of bakers’ Renaissance church Italian contractors Webuild and Vianini Lavori have completed an 18-month restoration of the 16th Century Church of Santa Maria di Loreto in Rome’s historic centre. The project was part of…
News Webuild’s Milan station features mediaeval wall discovered during construction Italian contractor Webuild has completed an extension at Milan’s Sant’Ambrogio metro station, which includes a display of a mediaeval wall found during its construction. A 70m-long passage has a glass…
News Korean-European team wins $1bn Suburban Loop in Melbourne Three contractors have signed a deal to build a section of Melbourne’s Suburban Rail Loop (SRL), a project to improve lateral connections in the city. The Terra Verde consortium consists…
News Webuild wins $190m Florida interstate contract Webuild subsidiary Lane Construction has won a $190m contract to upgrade Interstate 4 in Polk County, Florida. Lane’s scope of work includes a reconstruction of the existing interchange to accommodate…
News Webuild picked for radical makeover of Bologna FC’s Dall’Ara stadium Rome-based contractor Webuild has signed a partnership with Bologna football club to renovate the Renato Dall’Ara stadium, built in 1927. The €200m project will demolish and rebuild all the stands,…