Solutions to global challenges
Infrastructure and sustainable development
Infrastructure is the cornerstone of the economic and social activities of all communities and is essential for growth.
As well as fuelling significant growth for nations’ GDP with a more than proportionate return for the economy, infrastructure is an increasingly strategic lever for providing solutions to major global challenges, such as climate change, demographic growth, the growing scarcity of water resources and the expansion of Artificial Intelligence.
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted by the United Nations in 2015 give an important role to infrastructure in the 2030 Agenda, recognizing the added value generated by the sector in terms of widening access to basic services, protection from extreme weather events, and stimulating economic growth and innovation.
The role of infrastructure to support the SDGs
Improve access to basic services
The contribution of Webuild
We build infrastructure that is crucial for the of the advancement of the SDGs.
For this reason, we have drawn up a Sustainability Strategy, which combines the Group's industrial and commercial policies with those regarding sustainability, identifying concrete contributions towards the advancement of the Sustainable Development Goals defined by the United Nations.
Our Strategy identifies the sustainability of infrastructure and the sustainability of construction sites as the two pillars upon which the Group's commitment and reputation are built.
Webuild will continue to:
- contribute to the transition to a low-carbon economy by investing in clean technology, improving projects’ environmental sustainability during the construction phase and of the works during their utilisation;
- be the sector benchmark for health and safety, expertise, diversity and inclusion;
- contribute to improve the sector’s efficiency by investing in innovation and digitalisation.
Our strategy identifies two lines of actions for the advancement of 11 SDGs
We assist our clients with issues such as sustainable mobility, water, hydropower and green buildings. We build infrastructure that contributes to communities' development and well-being. Our business areas: Sustainable Mobility, Clean Hydro Energy, Clean Water, Green Buildings.
SDGs supported by the Webuild business areas: Sustainable Mobility, Clean Hydro Energy, Clean Water, Green Buildings
Acting responsibly
We contribute to the economic and social development of the territories where the Group works, guarateeing people’s well-being and respect for the evironment. Our commitments: Health and safety, Environment, Shared growth, Human rights and diversity.
The SDGs supported by Webuild's commitment to: Health and safety, Environment, Shared growth, Human rights and diversity
During about 120 years of business, we have contributed to writing some of the most important pages in the history of infrastructure.
Our projects have played a key role in the development of the countries involved: dams in Africa, unique hydraulic works, such as the expansion of the Panama Canal, the railways and metro systems aimed at reducing traffic congestion and pollution in some of the most populated cities in the world, motorway projects which shorten distances and facilitate the economic and social integration of territories and communities, the restoration of works which tell the history of man, such as the rescue of the Abu Simbel temples in Egypt.