A consortium that includes Spain’s Acciona and Italy’s RCM Construzioni has been selected to build a 880m-long, 22m-wide breakwater at the Port of Ravenna in eastern Italy. The structure will…

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,…

Webuild has signed a memorandum of understanding with engineer Ansaldo Nucleare to develop small modular reactors (SMRs). The two Italian companies are planning to work together over the next five…

The European Investment Bank (EIB) has agreed a further €2bn to help rebuild areas in central Italy damaged by earthquakes in 2016 and 2017. Half the money will be a…

Italian football team AS Roma has revealed images of its new home, as imagined by American architect Populous. A roadmap for the project is still to be announced, but a…

Thirty-five years after shutting down its last nuclear power station, Italy is planning to restart its nuclear industry with small modular reactors (SMRs), the Financial Times reports. Energy minister Gilberto…

The European Commission on Friday agreed to let Italy offer €2bn in state aid for France’s STMicroelectronics to build a €5bn chip factory in Sicily. The company wants to build…

Webuild is setting up France’s first robotic ashlar-block factory to line the inside of Lot 2 of the Turin-Lyon high-speed rail tunnel. The company said the plant’s intensive automation will…

In a first for Italy, contractor Webuild is using increased air pressure to create a hyperbaric atmosphere in a section of tunnel it’s building under Naples for the Naples-Bari high-speed-high…

Italian contractor Webuild has announced plans to build a factory in Terni, Umbria, to repair its 58 tunnel boring machines (TBM). The machines will be serviced after they finish a…

Carlo Ratti Associati (CRA) has designed a masterplan for a 365,000 sq m seafront park on the site of a former oil refinery. The masterplan will open up a previously…

A consortium led by Italy’s Webuild (40%) has explained its plan for protecting marine life affected by the construction of a breakwater at Genoa port. A team of marine biologists…

The board of directors of Stretto di Messina, the company formed to develop a suspension bridge between Sicily and the Italian mainland, has approved a design for the span, and…

Five workers were killed and three seriously injured after part of a building collapsed on a construction site in Florence, Italy It happened Friday morning when a prefabricated concrete beam…

Rome has settled on a plan to turn an old military technology factory on Via Guido Reni in the Flaminio district into a forest-themed science museum. Italian architecture firm ADAT…

Italian green energy company NatPower is planning to invest €100m in setting up green hydrogen stations for recreation boats in 25 Italian ports and marinas. A template for the stations…

The design of a 50,000 sq m terminal for Florence Airport has been unveiled by Rafael Viñoly Architects, complete with a 19-acre rooftop vineyard. Thirty-eight rows of vines will be…

Export credit agencies from the UK, Italy, Poland, and Austria have joined Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) to secure €1.247bn to build a high-speed railway in Turkey. Turkey’s Ministry of…