Group skills to serve Maryland to rebuild Baltimora Bridge collapsed last March

Group's global leadership in the infrastructure sector and historical presence in the US now highlighted on newspapers like the The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post and news channel CNN

Last May, delivered pro-bono concept design of new bridge in the US where the Group has a historical presence 

Project design for a new safe and innovative bridge to support the Port of Baltimora as logistic hub

Milan, July 9, 2024 – "webuild what America needs" is the campaign claim launched on the main US media channels, which focuses on the global leadership of the Webuild Group in the infrastructure sector and on its historical experience in the Country, through its subsidiary Lane, a company that goes back to 1890. From the The New York Times to the The Wall Street Journal; from the The Washington Post to the CNN, Webuild's campaign takes off from the iconic Long Beach International Gateway Bridge in California, which was delivered by the Group in 2020 without ever halting port activities. 

The Group, having already built 1,020 km of bridges and viaducts globally, is now ready to put this very experience to serve the US authorities also for rebuilding the new Baltimora Bridge, after it collapsed last March. In May, Webuild and Lane already presented to the Maryland Transportation Authority (MDTA) their concept design, pro-bono, as a sign of closeness to the Country.  The goal: building a new safe and innovative bridge able to redefine the way ships enter the historical port of the City of Baltimora, a fundamental logistic hub for the United States. 

The latter being for Webuild a key market also thanks to huge ongoing development and infrastructural growth plans.  North America is overall the third most important market, with the United States representing 12% of the Group's total turnover. Lane and partner companies of the supply chain, in the last 10 years, successfully delivered infrastructure works for a total contract value worth over 12.8 billion dollars.

The collapse of the Baltimora Bridge, among the most used in the area, has had a significant impact on regional and global mobility. Webuild's proposal for Baltimora aims at bettering functional aspects, among which the work's safety, its adaptability, and its sustainability. The bridge will be designed to ensure maximum navigation safety even for larger ships. The proposed smart solutions will allow safer traffic management and predictive maintenance techniques. More sustainable materials are also foreseen to be used to preserve the ecosystem of the Patapsco River. The Group's experience in building the new Genoa Bridge (the old one collapsed in 2018), and reopening it to traffic in 2020, also shows its capacity of rapidly build a work, while continuing to collaborate with the authorities. 

Webuild is present in over 50 countries and has built iconic projects with the most cutting-edge technologies in safety and sustainability terms, greatly raising the industry's standards. Among the many, the Second and Third Bosphorus Bridges and the Danube Bridge in Braila, Romania, the second longest suspension bridge in Continental Europe. In the US, besides building the Long Beach International Gateway Bridge, ensuring full operations of both the port and the old bridge (which was demolished immediately after inaugurating the new one), it has also built the "A.  Max Brewer Bridge” in Florida.