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…

The city of Bologna has begun a €4.3m project to prepare for the possible collapse of its famous, leaning Garisenda Tower, completed in 1119. The 48m-high structure leans at 4…

Seville-headquartered digital and engineering consultant Ayesa has won two high-profile projects this month: a section of high-speed railway in Poland and a bridge in Italy. In Poland it will design…

A Vinci-led consortium has won an €800m contract to deal with 23 million tonnes of spoil produced in the boring of the 45km French section of the Mont Cenis base…

The Italian Ministry for Infrastructure and Transport has chosen a team to finance, design, and build a 10.6km section of a Sicilian railway with a development value of about €650m. 

Milan’s Giuseppe Meazza Stadium, also known as the San Siro, has been saved from demolition owing to its historical significance. A statement sent to Tribuna from Lombardy’s Regional Commission of…

A total of €247m in funding has been raised for modernisation and safety work on the A32 motorway that connects northwest Italy and France via the Frejus tunnel. The project…

A team made up of Rome-based contractor Webuild and Japan’s Hitachi Rail has won a section of a €4.8bn high-speed, high-capacity rail line between Verona and Padua. The Iricav Due…

San Babila and Tricolore Stations have opened to the public on Milan’s M4 metro Line, bringing the total number of stations on the line to eight and allowing for passengers…

Work has begun on a huge metro station in Rome that is set to become one of the city’s main transport hubs. Venezia Station is being built on Line C…

An Italian consortium led by Webuild has won a €1.3bn contract to build a 30km stretch of the Palermo-to-Catania rail link in Sicily. The contract was awarded by state rail…

Steven Holl Architects has unveiled its masterplan for the town of Prati di Tivo in Italy’s eastern Abruzzo region. The plan, which is divided into three phases, involves a community…

Italian architecture firm Piuarch has unveiled its designs for a major renovation of a city block in Milan’s Bicocca district. The €250m, 50,000-sq-m scheme, called “BiM”, will be a second…

Italian contractor Webuild has won a €284m contract to build a 15km section of the Pedemontana Piemontese highway in Piedmont. Working on behalf of Italy’s state railway company, Webuild and…

A Webuild-led consortium has started building a more-than 6km-long breakwater off the Port of Genoa to allow the port to accommodate the biggest ships. It will push the outer barrier…

Milan’s Municipality of Segrate has asked Danish maritime architect Mast to turn a disused, kilometre-wide, 60m-deep sand quarry into a lake park with floating, forested islands. Mast said it would…

Webuild and consortium partners have won a €934m contract from Rete Ferroviaria Italiana (RFI) for a rail bypass at Lot 3A of a project in Trento, Italy. Webuild, which has…

Genoa-based consulting engineer Rina has entered the US infrastructure market with the acquisition of Chicago consultant Patrick Engineering. Patrick was founded in 1979 and is active in the America’s transport…