New Technologies

Critical Infrastructure Evolution: From Bridges and Roads to Data Networks

From manifesto works (as with the Italian road Autostrada del Sole) to invisible networks: Jeffrey Schnapp, founder and director of MetaLab at Harvard University, recounts the evolution of critical in...

From Rome Metro to Athens Metro: 5 Stations Combining Archaeology and Urban Mobility

From Rome's Metro C Line to Madrid, via the Athens underground, discover five metro stations that combine urban transport and memory, fitting into delicate archaeological sites and transforming the su...

From Golden Gate Bridge to Queensferry Crossing, 5 Smart Bridges Using Sensors and AI

Bridges become smart: AI and advanced monitoring systems transform them into urban infrastructure capable of predicting, reacting, and protecting, opening up new preventive maintenance tools.

Colosseum-Imperial Forums: The Rome Metro Construction Site That Seemed Impossible

Sensors and innovative technologies enabled the construction of the new Rome subway station while ensuring the ongoing monitoring of the Ancient Rome archaeological site. Now, this critical infrastruc...

From Construction to Predictive Maintenance: The Era of Smart Infrastructure

Urban planner Carlo Ratti's contribution launches one of the key themes of Webuild's exhibition, “Evolutio”: the importance of systems for the continuous maintenance of infrastructure, such as gyrosco...

Genoa Port: All the Sensors Monitoring the Seabed of the New Breakwater

Inside the work of SOCOTEC, the company responsible for monitoring every movement on the seabed at the Genoa New Breakwater construction site, as well as conducting altimetric and bathymetric surveys ...

Silent Material Innovation Brings Impossible Megaprojects to Life

From concrete to advanced composite materials, discover how material innovation is enabling “impossible” megaprojects, influencing technological evolution and infrastructure development.

SELI Overseas: 75 Years of Underground Infrastructure Development with TBMs

From the first TBMs to tunnel boring around the world, the company's history coincides with that of tunneling, with technologies applied to iconic infrastructures such as the Channel Tunnel and the Br...

Santa Barbara, the Light in Underground Infrastructure Development with TBMs

As increasingly advanced TBMs are used in sustainable infrastructure development, on 4 December, Webuild construction sites celebrated Saint Barbara, patron saint of miners and all those who work in t...