Webuild. Webuild SpA (formerly Salini Impregilo SpA; ) is an Italian industrial group specialising in construction and civil engineering. The company was formally founded in 2014 as the result of the merger by incorporation of Salini into Impregilo. Webuild is the largest Italian engineering and general contractor group and a global player in the construction sector.

The company is active in over 50 countries of 5 continents (Africa, America, Asia, Europe, Oceania) with more than 85,000 employees. Its experience ranges from the construction of dams, hydroelectric plants and hydraulic structures, water infrastructures and ports, to roads, motorways, railways, metro systems and underground works, to airports, hospitals and public and industrial buildings, to civil engineering for waste-to-energy plants and environmental protection initiatives. It takes first place in the water sector of the Engineering News-Record rankings, the benchmark for the entire construction industry.

The company is listed on the Borsa Italiana. It is directed by Pietro Salini.

History
The company was founded as Impregilo in 1960 and expanded following a merger with  and Lodigiani S.p.A. in 1994.

Impregilo established a business relationship with Fisia in 1998, and acquired Todini in 2010.

In 2011 Salini, privately held, began its acquisition of Impregilo with an initial purchase of shares, reaching 25% the following year. The acquisition set a precedent in Italy because it was the first proxy fight for control of a company to occur in the country. Despite the opposition it faced from a group of investors, Salini managed to convince enough shareholders at an assembly in July 2012 to approve its proposal to replace Impregilo’s board of directors with its own list of candidates. Once in place, these new members of the board approved Salini’s offer to buy the rest of Impregilo. Pietro Salini became chief executive. A few months later, the board approved Salini’s plan.

In 2013, Salini launched a tender offer to buy the remaining ordinary shares in Impregilo. In January 2014 the transaction was completed forming Salini Impregilo.

In 2016, it bought Lane Industries, based in Connecticut and, in 2019, it announced the acquisition of a majority stake in Cossi Costruzioni.

In May 2020, the company was rebranded as Webuild. In November 2020, Webuild acquired a 65% shareholding in Astaldi. 

In November 2022, Webuild announced that, subject to due diligence, it would acquire the Australian based company Clough Group.

Operations
The group is organised into four business areas: Clean Hydro Energy, Clean Water, Sustainable Mobility, Green Buildings. The company's projects include 313 dams and hydroelectric plants;  of railway lines;  of underground works,  of which subway lines;  of roads and highways; and  of bridges and viaducts.

Sustainability Rating 
The sustainability rating assigned to the company by Standard Ethics Aei, in May 2022, was E+ (Low).

Major projects
Projects in which the company has been involved include buildings, public utilities, motorways, underground works, airports, water supply systems, waste disposals, hospitals and land development. Some major examples include:

 Kariba Dam, Zimbabwe/Zambia, 1959
 Dez Dam, Iran, 1963
 Akosombo Dam, Ghana, 1966
 Salvage of the Abu Simbel temples, Egypt, 1968
 Bay of Fontvieille, Monaco, 1973
 Tarbela Dam, Pakistan, 1976
 Fréjus Road Tunnel, France/Italy, 1980
 Trans-Gabon Railway, Gabon, 1982 
 San Roque González de Santa Cruz Bridge, Argentina/Paraguay, 1990 
 New Hemicycle of European Parliament, France, 1997
 Lesotho Highlands Water Project, 1998
 Extensions to the Rodovia dos Imigrantes, Brazil, 2002
 Ghazi Barotha Dam, Pakistan, 2002
 Nathpa Jhakri Hydroelectric Power Project, India, 2003
 Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque, United Arab Emirates, 2003
 Desalination plant Jebel Ali L, United Arab Emirates, 2005
 Kárahnjúkar Hydropower Plant, Iceland, 2008
 Turin–Milan and Bologna–Florence high-speed railways, Italy, 2009
 Expansion of the Churchill Hospital in Oxford, 2009
Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, 2011
 Expansion of the Panama Canal – third set of locks, 2016
 Faido sections of the Gotthard Base Tunnel, 2016
 Cityringen, new subway circular urban line in Copenhagen, 2019
 Red Line North, part of the Doha Metro project in Qatar, 2019.
 Genoa-Saint George Bridge, 2020
 Forrestfield–Airport Link, extension to the Transperth rail network, 2022
 Texas Central Railway, due to complete in 2025
 Rogun Dam, Tajikistan, due to complete in 2025
 Portions of the Grand Paris Express, France, due to complete in 2025
 Dam and artificial lake at Trojena, in Neom, Saudi Arabia, due to complete in 2026
 Snowy 2.0 Pumped Storage Power Station, due to complete in 2028

See also
Strait of Messina Bridge

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Construction and civil engineering companies of Italy
Multinational companies headquartered in Italy
Companies based in Milan
Construction and civil engineering companies established in 1959
Companies listed on the Borsa Italiana
Strait of Messina Bridge
Italian companies established in 1959
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