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Fact Sheet Fact Sheet Index Fact Sheet Fact Sheet Index 1 Who We Are 2 Our Business Areas 3 Lane’s Main Projects 4 By the Numbers 6 Webuild 8 Webuild’s Main Projects 9 Top Management | Contacts Augmented Reality content: launch the app and aim at the page LU C SIV Find this symbol among the pages. EX E C R O Use your smartphone to discover exclusive content. E V N T O E C N S I T D Aim at this marker to download the digital copy of this fact sheet. Download Select the Discover Webuild Augmented Reality tool exclusive Corporate and aim at the pages contents app with our marker Available on the MAY 2021 Published by: Lane Communications Department Graphic by Viewtoo s.r.l. - Milan, Italy Who We Are Profile The Lane Construction Corporation is one of America’s leading construction companies, specializing in large, complex civil infrastructure. For more than 130 years, it has contributed to the development of the country’s transportation systems including the Interstate Highway System and a vast network of roads, bridges, airports, metros and railways. Lane specializes in mobility, tunneling, and water resources to address sustainable development and climate change adaptation challenges. It leverages on the worldwide experience of its parent company, Webuild Group (previously Salini Impregilo). Lane is ranked among the Top 4 Highway Contractors (ENR) in the U.S. CLUSIV EX E C rd R E O Top 4 Highway Contractor V N T O 4 E C N S I T D More Than 130 Years of Experience For over 130 years, Lane has been delivering quality products and services, taking pride in building long-term relationships with customers, partners, subcontractors, and suppliers that are based on trust and integrity. All of its core values, which form the foundation of the Lane culture, support the goal of not only being a customer-focused and innovative solutions leader, but also a great place to work. 1 Fact Sheet Our Business Areas Lane is a pioneer in the use of design-build and public-private partnership methods of project delivery. Many of its design-build (DB) projects have received prestigious awards from the most respected industry associations. Encouraged by Lane’s initial success on DB projects along the east coast, additional states and municipalities have turned to the DB model as a more efficient means of project delivery. Its main projects include the I-10 Corridor Express Lanes in California; the I-405 Renton to Bellevue Widening and Express Toll Lanes in Washington; the Unionport Bridge Replacement in Bronx, New York; and the Northeast Boundary Tunnel (NEBT) in Washington, D.C. Sectors Highways Rail, Metro Tunneling & Bridges & Mass Transit Civil & Industrial Power & Energy, Buildings, Airports Locks & Dams 2 Lane’s Main Projects New Kansas City Levees Flood Risk Management, Missouri Phase III Extension of 183A Tollway, Texas Ship Canal Water Quality Project, Washington I-405 Renton to Bellevue Widening and Express Toll Lanes, Washington Ongoing I-10 Corridor Express Lanes, California I-4 Ultimate Improvement Project, Florida Florida Turnpike-Osceola/Beachline, Florida Suncoast Parkway 2, Florida Wekiva Parkway (Section 8), Florida Caloosahatchee (C43) West Basin Storage Reservoir, Florida Three Rivers Protection and Overflow Reduction Tunnel (3RPORT), Indiana Unionport Bridge, New York I-77/I-40 Interchange Iredell County, North Carolina I-440/US 1 Improvements Wake County, North Carolina NC 540/Triangle Expressway Southeast Extension, North Carolina Port Access Road, South Carolina I-85 Cherokee County, South Carolina I-264 Witchduck Road Interchange & Ramp Extension, Virginia I-66 Eastbound Widening Inside the Beltway, Virginia Northeast Boundary Tunnel, Washington, D.C. Completed Max Brewer Bridge, Florida SR 528 Innovation Way, Florida SR 408 Widening from SR 417 to Alafaya Trail, Florida Little River Water Reclamation Facility, Georgia Lake Mead Intake No. 3 Shafts and Tunnel, Nevada I-485/I-85 Interchange, North Carolina LYNX Blue Line Extension, North Carolina I-85 Widening Design-Build - Cabarrus/Rowan County, North Carolina Dugway Storage Tunnel, Ohio Fort Worth Alliance Airport, Texas I-35 Improvements (with Brazos River Bridge), Texas I-95 Express Lanes, Virginia I-495 Express Lanes, Virginia Alexandria Bus Rapid Transit, Virginia I-395 Express Lanes, Virginia Anacostia River Tunnel, Washington, D.C. 3 Fact Sheet By the Numbers Global leader in the construction Leader in construction of large, complex projects for 20+ of highways, bridges, sustainable mobility, States mass transit, and tunnels clean hydro energy, clean water, green buildings AK WT NT NU CANADA BC AB SK MB NL ON QC PE WA NB NS MT ND MN OR ME ID VT NH SD WY WI MA NY MI RI NV CT NE IA PA UT CA U.S.A. NJ IL IN OH CO DE WEWV MD KS VA MO KY NC AZ TN NM OK AR SC MS AL GA U.S. Locations TX U.S. Subsidiary Locations LA FL • Cheshire, Connecticut (HQ) VSL Electrical, Signing, Lighting • Alpharetta, Georgia • Manassas, Virginia (HQ) (Water/Wastewater Operations) • Chesapeake, Virginia • Chantilly, Virginia • Charlotte, North Carolina • Fort Worth, Texas • Henderson, Nevada • Maitland, Florida • New Rochelle, New York 4 Lane Track Record 17,642 25 Miles Energy-related of Highways Projects 177 143 Miles Miles of Bridges of Railroad Line 87 103 Miles of Transit Miles of Underground Line/Metro/Light Rail Works and Tunnels 27 113 Navigational Locks Airport Runways and Flood Control Dams and Taxiways Company Facts Lane has successfully participated in over 2,500+ 8 80+ projects totaling more than $13 billion Employees Offices in construction cost over the past 20 years. 5 Fact Sheet Webuild Webuild Worldwide 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. Recognised 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. 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. 6 Webuild Track Record 313 80,291 km Dams and of Roads and Hydroelectric Plants Motorways 2,373 km 13,637 km of Underground of Metro & Railways Works 946 km 52,900 MW of Bridges and of Installed Viaducts Capacity Group Facts 70,000 of over 100 working in 50 Employees Nationalities Countries 7 Fact Sheet Webuild’s Main Projects New contracts Riachuelo Environmental Restoration System - Lot 2, Argentina Snowy 2.0, Australia Hurontario Light Rail Transit Project, Canada Naples-Bari High Speed Railway, Apice-Hirpinia section, Italy Nykirke-Barkaker Rail Line, Norway Gothenburg Kvarnberget Railway Pass (“West Link E03 Kvarnberget Lot”), Sweden United Nations offices, Switzerland Halkali-Kapikule High-speed Railway Line, Turkey Texas High Speed Rail, U.S. Main ongoing projects Forrestfield Airport Link Project, Australia Koysha Hydroelectric Project, Ethiopia Grand Paris Metro, Line 16 Lot 2, France Extension of Line 14 Sud to Orly Airport within Grand Paris Express Project, France Terzo Valico dei Giovi HS/HC Railway, Italy Milan Metro System Line 4, Italy Naples-Bari High-Speed Railway Line, Naples-Cancello section, Italy Brenner Base Tunnel, Italy/Austria Braila Bridge, Romania Riyadh Metro, Line 3, Saudi Arabia Rogun Hydropower Project, Tajikistan Meydan One Mall, United Arab Emirates Main completed projects Yacyretá Hydroelectric Project, Argentina Rome Metro B1 Line, Italy Rosario-Victoria Motorway Bridge, Argentina Pedemontana lombarda, Italy Buenos Aires “North Access” Motorway, Argentina Autostrada del Sole, Italy Ushuaia International Airport, Argentina Palazzo Lombardia, Italy Sydney Metro Northwest, Australia Auditorium in Rome, Italy Building for the European Community’s Board of Ministers, Belgium Tarbela Hydroelectric Plant, Pakistan Anchieta Imigrantes Motorway System, Brazil Expansion of the Panama Canal Third Set of Locks, Panama New Gerald Desmond Bridge, California, U.S. Porto Light Subway, Portugal East West Highway, Chile Doha Metro System “Red Line North Underground”, Qatar Xiaolangdi Multipurpose Project, China Riyadh Kingdom Centre, Saudi Arabia Copenhagen Cityringen Metro, Denmark Al Hasa Hospital Centers, Saudi Arabia Abu Simbel Rescue, Egypt Central Expressway, Singapore Legadadi Dam, Ethiopia Khartoum-Port Sudan Road, Sudan Paris Subway, France Sankt Gotthard Railway Project, Switzerland European Parliament, France Second
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