MILAN, May 19, 2021 – Webuild renews its rise among the champions of sustainability by joining the ranks of European companies identified by the Financial Times and Statista (German data provider) to be on the forefront of efforts to fight climate change. In a special report the Group is listed among 300 European companies with revenues greater than €40 million that have reduced the intensity of their greenhouse gas emissions relative to revenues between 2014 and 2019, as determined by a compound annual reduction rate (CARR). Webuild reduced by 9.0% its core emissions year on year between 2014 and 2019 aligned with revenue growth. Only emissions produced by Webuild itself and by the production of energy used by the Group were taken into account.

Webuild, which was recently ranked among the 150 sustainability leaders in Italy in a report by Statista and the Italian business newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore, achieved extremely positive results in 2020 following years of effort to reduce the impact of its activities on the environment: 89% of its backlog of construction orders involves projects designed to reach Sustainable Development Goals set by the United Nations; 63% are for low-carbon projects, which are expected to have a significant impact on an estimated 87 million people throughout the world.

Webuild’s performance in terms of sustainability has been acknowledged in light of the results it has achieved: 69% of the waste produced at the work sites of its projects are recycled; the intensity of CO2 emissions is down 49% between 2015 and 2020; 91% of supplies and services for its projects come from where the projects are located; 82% of the people hired for the projects come from where the projects are located. The Group aims to further improve these results under the recently launched 2021-2023 ESG Plan, strengthening its commitment to environmental sustainability, safety, inclusion and technological innovation. The plan comes in the wake of Progetto Italia, an initiative on the part of the Group to consolidate the construction sector in Italy, including the acquisition of Astaldi in 2020.

The Group’s rise as a leader in sustainability runs in tandem with its increased focus on innovation, investment in the digitalisation of core processes, building techniques and initiatives to improve quality, safety and the environmental protection. The Group’s commitment to developing unique solutions – even at the bidding stage - is reflected in projects like the mega hydroelectric project Snowy 2.0 in Australia, the tunnels under the Isarco River as part of the development of the Brenner Base Tunnel in the Italian Alps, and the Northeast Boundary Tunnel in Washington, D.C.. Every construction can be a laboratory for advanced research for Webuild as well as its supply chain, whose members are set to grow with the Group in Italy and abroad.