Webuild Launches Campaign to Inspire Women and Youth Through Sports Champions

Webuild Launches Campaign to Inspire Women and Youth Through Sports Champions

(IN BRIEF) Webuild has launched a new communication campaign titled “We Dream, We Build, We Win,” featuring Italian sports champions to inspire women and youth. The campaign highlights themes of teamwork, commitment, and resilience, showcasing the journeys of athletes alongside Webuild’s workforce engaged in over 150 global projects. Notable athletes like Caterina Banti and Alice Bellandi represent values such as audacity and perseverance. Webuild emphasizes its commitment to nurturing talent, with 40% of its employees under 35, and plans to hire 10,000 individuals through the “Cantiere Lavoro Italia” program by 2026. The company also collaborates with universities to train young professionals and promotes innovation through the Alberto Giovannini Award.

(PRESS RELEASE) MILAN, 13-Aug-2024 — /EuropaWire/ — Webuild has launched a new communication campaign titled “We Dream, We Build, We Win,” featuring Italian sports champions who have excelled in their fields. The campaign highlights the themes of teamwork, commitment, and overcoming challenges, showcasing the journeys of these athletes alongside the dedicated workforce at Webuild, which is involved in over 150 projects globally.

The campaign features prominent Italian athletes from various sports, including sailing, judo, athletics, and boxing. Their stories emphasize values such as audacity, perseverance, resilience, and passion—qualities that resonate with Webuild’s mission to deliver innovative and sustainable infrastructure solutions under often challenging conditions.

Caterina Banti, an athlete supported by Webuild since 2011, embodies the spirit of audacity, representing the potential of young talent nurtured by the company. Alice Bellandi focuses on the theme of perseverance, illustrating the importance of resilience in facing life’s challenges. Other champions, including Zaynab Dosso, Antonella Palmisano, and Angela Carini, share their experiences of tenacity and passion, reinforcing the campaign’s message.

Webuild aims to use this campaign to emphasize its commitment to supporting sports as a means of personal and collective growth, fostering a better future through collaboration. The company recognizes the potential of women and young talents in the workforce, with about 40% of its employees under the age of 35.

In 2023, Webuild launched the “Cantiere Lavoro Italia” program, aiming to hire 10,000 individuals by 2026, focusing particularly on construction sites in southern Italy. The company also collaborates with nearly 20 universities and technical colleges worldwide to attract and train promising young professionals, while promoting research and innovation in the industry through the Alberto Giovannini Award for students at all academic levels.

Webuild’s initiative not only showcases the achievements of Italy’s sports champions but also reflects the company’s dedication to nurturing talent and fostering a culture of growth and excellence in both sports and infrastructure development.

Webuild is a global leader in the design and construction of large, complex projects in the sectors of sustainable mobility, hydropower, water management and production, and green buildings. For many years, the recognized leader in the water sector, also ranking among
the Top 10 international players in Australia, Europe and the US, the Group has consolidated experience in 50 countries. In almost 120 years of applied engineering on more than 3,200 projects, the Webuild Group has built 14,140 kilometres of rail and metro lines, 82,533
kilometres of roads and highways, 1,020 kilometres of bridges and viaducts, 3,408 kilometres of tunnels, and 313 dams and hydropower plants. Projects include the expansion of the Panama Canal, the Long Beach International Gateway in California, the Third Bosphorus Bridge in Turkey, the skytrain bridge of the metropolitan train line north-west of Sydney, the Kingdom Centre skyscraper in Riyadh in Saudi Arabia, and metro lines in Copenhagen, Paris, Rome, Milan, Doha and Ryadh. Projects under construction include the New Genoa Breakwater, the Brenner Base Tunnel, Line 4 of Milan’s metro, and Line C of Rome’s metro, the Genoa-Milan high-capacity railway line, and railway lines on the HS Naples-Bari and HC Palermo-Catania-Messina railway routes, the Snowy 2.0 hydroelectric project in Australia, and the Trojena project for NEOM in Saudi Arabia. As of June 30, 2024, the Webuild Group with approximately 90,000 people, achieved a total backlog of €65 billion, with over 90% of its construction backlog related to projects linked to the advancement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). As of December 31, 2023, the Group achieved €10 billion in total revenues. Webuild, subject to the direction and coordination of Salini Costruttori S.p.A., is headquartered in Italy and is listed on the Milan stock exchange (WBD; WBD.MI; WBD:IM). Since 2021, it is member of the MIB ESG, the index of Italian companies with the best ESG practices.

Media Contact:

Francesca Romana Chiarano
Senior Manager – Media Relations
Tel. +39 338 247 4827
email: f.chiarano@webuildgroup.com

SOURCE: Webuild S.p.A.