News International team to build Zambia freight corridor A team of Italy’s Webuild, Turkish contractor İçtaş and Portugal’s Mota-Engil has won a contract for the 517km-long Lot 1B of the Lobito Corridor Railway Project, connecting the Angolan border…
News High-speed line opens between Istanbul and the Bulgarian border A section of a high-speed rail planned to connect Istanbul to the Bulgarian border has been completed by a consortium of Italy’s Webuild and Turkey’s Kolin Group for Turkish State…
News Webuild JV to build $1bn Pennsylvania sewerage tunnel A 50/50 joint venture between Webuild’s US subsidiary Lane Construction and Brayman Construction Corporation has signed a $1bn contract to deliver the Ohio River Tunnel clean-water project in Pennsylvania. Located…
News Webuild celebrates completion of ‘epochal’ bridge in the highlands of Lesotho An international joint venture led by Italian contractor Webuild has completed the 825m-long Senqu Bridge spanning the future reservoir of the Polihali Dam in the northeastern highlands of the Kingdom…
News Webuild lands €509m Florida highway contract Italy’s Webuild has won a €509m design and build contract through its US subsidiary Lane Construction to expand and modernise a segment of the Interstate 4 in Florida. Working on…
News Webuild signs MoU with Hyundai E&C to target infrastructure projects Italy’s Webuild has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with South Korea’s Hyundai Engineering and Construction (E&C) to strengthen an ongoing collaboration in port, airport and defence infrastructure markets as…
News Webuild excavates first tunnel for Sicily rail corridor An Italian team of Pizzarotti and Webuild say excavation at the first tunnel for the Messina-to-Catania Railway, at Forza D’Agrò, has been completed. Tunnel boring machine “Alessia,” pictured, excavated 2.5km…
News Webuild hits the road in Virginia Italy’s Webuild has won a $389m contract through its US subsidiary Lane Construction to widen the Interstate 64 in Virginia. Working on behalf of the Virginia Department of Transportation, Lane…
News Webuild consortium wins further €776m Rome metro contract A consortium of Italy’s Webuild and Vianini Lavori has won a €776m design and build contract for the T1 section of the Rome Metro, which will connect Clodio/Mazzini to Farnesina…
News Webuild-led team lands Riyadh Red Line extension A Webuild-led consortium involving India’s Larsen & Toubro, Saudi Arabia’s NESMA and France’s Alstom has won a contract to extend Riyadh Metro’s Red Line by 8.4km for the client, the…
News Webuild team wins €660m Naples metro job An Italian consortium of Webuild, Eteria Consorzio Stabile, Costruire, ICM, and MN Metropolitana di Napoli has landed a €660m contract for the first lot of a contract on Naples metro…
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.…