MILAN, February 14, 2021 – With its 115 years of experience and staff of 70,000, the Webuild Group is helping Italy and other countries grow in the most sustainable way possible, providing expertise and experience that are synonymous with quality and commitment, as seen in the construction of the Genova San Giorgio Bridge, completed last year. With these strengths, the Group wants to consolidate in Italy and abroad at a time of reform to improve even further the productivity of its projects and its own competitiveness.

Webuild is involved in the construction of some of the most important infrastructure projects. In its home country, it has 11,000 employees and collaborators along a supply chain of some 5,000 small- and medium-sized businesses busily working on five projects. The expertise they are deploying is helping create jobs and revive the economy in much the same way as they did during the construction of the bridge in Genoa.

Webuild took 15 months to erect the structure across the Polcevera riverbed despite the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, delivering Genoa a piece of infrastructure strategic to its transport network. The Group completed it in record time thanks to a number of factors: close collaboration with public authorities, transparency at every phase of construction, and work done round the clock at multiple stations throughout the site. It also set the standard for innovation for the next generation of bridges, with robots that clean and monitor the structure on a constant basis.

How Webuild built the bridge has come to be known as the “Genoa Model”, setting an example for how things can be done quickly to develop the infrastructure that Italy and other countries sorely need.