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Lane Construction Wins $258 Million Kansas City Flood Protection Project

The Lane Construction Corporation, the U.S. subsidiary of Webuild Group, announced it has been awarded the Kansas City Levees Flood Risk Management Project.

The $258 million U.S. Army Corps of Engineers contract will reduce the risk of a levee breach or overtopping and subsequent major flood damage within the heart of Kansas City’s industrial and commercial districts, reducing the flood risk to over 27,000 residents and employees and more than $10 billion in infrastructure, including one of the largest networks of U.S. Class I rail yards in the nation.

Work anticipated by the contract includes raising the existing levees and floodwalls by an average of four feet, replacement and modification of existing levees and floodwalls, new sections of levees and floodwalls, and numerous rail yard flood gate closure structures located within the states of Kansas and Missouri along some 17 miles of the Argentine, Armourdale, and Central Industrial District (CID) Levee Units on the Kansas River. Work is anticipated to begin in June of 2021 and the job is expected to be completed in 2026.

The contract is the most recent win for the company in the major water resources and large earthwork projects sector, a key growth area for both Lane and Webuild. Lane is also working on another smaller U.S. Army Corps of Engineers levee project – The Blue River Basin – in the same area.

Lane has other water projects underway around the country: the construction of a reservoir in South Florida as part of the Everglades restoration and three tunnel projects that will bring clean water to the Washington, D.C., Seattle, Washington, and Fort Wayne, Indiana communities. Lane’s current water projects account for over $1.5 billion worth of work in the company’s portfolio. Webuild is one of the global leaders in the water infrastructure sector, with infrastructure works covering the entire water cycle.

About Lane Construction

The Lane Construction Corporation is one of America’s leading construction companies, specializing in large, complex civil infrastructure. For 130 years, it has contributed to the development of the country’s transportation systems including the Interstate Highway and a vast network of roads, bridges, airports, metros and railways. Lane specializes in mobility, tunneling, water and wastewater treatment plants to address sustainable development and climate change adaptation challenges. It is also a pioneer in project delivery methods and the use of design-build and public-private partnerships. Lane projects include the C-43 West Basin Storage Reservoir in Florida, an Everglades restoration effort; I-10 Corridor Express Lanes in California; the LYNX Blue Line Extension in North Carolina; the Anacostia River Tunnel in Washington, D.C.; the I-395 Express Lanes Extension in Virginia; and the Unionport Bridge Replacement in Bronx, New York. Based in Cheshire, Connecticut, it is wholly owned by Webuild, a global infrastructure group.

About Webuild Group

Webuild, the new group born in 2020 from Salini Impregilo, is a leading global player in the construction of large, complex projects for sustainable mobility, clean hydro energy, clean water, green buildings, supporting clients in achieving sustainable development goals (SDGs). The Group is the expression of 115 years of engineering experience applied in 50 countries on five continents with 70,000 direct and indirect employees from more than 100 nationalities. Recognized for five years by Engineering News-Record (ENR) as the world leader in water infrastructure (such as dams, hydraulic tunnels, water and wastewater management, and water treatment and desalination plants), it ranks since 2018 among the top 10 in the environment sector and it is also leader in sustainable mobility (especially metro and rail lines, in addition to roads and bridges). A signatory of the United Nations Global Compact, the Group’s expertise is displayed in projects such as the M4 metro line in Milan, Grand Paris Express, Cityringen in Copenhagen, Sydney Metro Northwest, Red Line North Underground in Doha, Line 3 of the Riyadh Metro and the high-speed railways in Italy. Other projects include the new Genoa Bridge and the Gerald Desmond replacement bridge in Long Beach, California, the expansion of the Panama Canal, the Snowy 2.0 hydroelectric power station in Australia, the Rogun hydroelectric dam in Tajikistan, the Anacostia River and Northeast Boundary tunnels in Washington, D.C. and the Al Bayt 2022 World Cup stadium in Qatar. In 2020, the Group’s total order backlog reached €41.7 billion, with 89% of the backlog of construction orders involving projects that support the SDGs set by the United Nations. Webuild, subject to direction and coordination by Salini Costruttori SpA, is headquartered in Italy and is listed on the Milan Stock Exchange (Borsa Italiana: WBD; Reuters: WBD.MI; Bloomberg: WBD:IM).