MILAN, June 5, 2021 - 'Reimagine. Recreate. Restore.' That is the theme of this year's World Environment Day, the annual celebration begun by the United Nations in 1974. It is a day that the Webuild Group is observing at construction sites everywhere, with people, communities and businesses playing a part in safeguarding the environment.
'Sustainable development and safeguarding and enhancing lands are an integral part of our DNA,' says Massimo Ferrari, General Manager of Webuild. 'The company has completely rethought its business model with a clear intention to contribute even more to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set by the United Nations: sustainable mobility, clean hydro energy, clean water, green buildings. These are the sectors where we operate, globally. We do it every day, working towards a sustainable future for present and future generations.'
Webuild, recently ranked among 'Europe's Climate Leaders 2021' by the Financial Times newspaper and Statista agency, produced extremely positive results in 2020 after years of improving its operations: 89% of its backlog of construction orders involves projects designed to reach one or more SDGs; 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 this achievement: 69% of the waste produced at its work sites is recycled; the intensity of CO2 emissions is down 49% since 2015; 91% of supplies and services comes from where its projects are located; and 82% of the people hired 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.
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