CHARLOTTE, NC – The Lane Construction Corporation’s parent company, Webuild Group, has been included in TIME’s 100 Most Influential Companies of 2026, in the Pioneers category. The inclusion is for shaping the future of infrastructure through engineering excellence, scale and long‑term vision.
Published annually, the TIME100 Most Influential Companies list honors organizations shaping the future of business, society, and the global economy. TIME cited Webuild as having “become the contractor of choice for the infrastructure projects the world most needs but often finds hardest to build,” recognizing the Group’s ability to deliver complex, pioneering projects that advance sustainable growth and long‑term social value.
TIME’s recognition underscores Webuild’s leadership in delivering large‑scale infrastructure projects defined by exceptional technical complexity and strategic importance. Projects cited by TIME include the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, Africa’s largest hydropower project—designed to double Ethiopia’s energy production and strengthen regional energy security—as well as the Brenner Base Tunnel, which will become the world’s longest underground railway, creating a critical rail link beneath the Alps between Italy and Austria.
With operations spanning nearly 50 countries, Webuild is globally recognized for delivering complex infrastructure across transportation and mobility, energy, water, and sustainable urban development. TIME noted the Group’s leadership at a moment when large‑scale infrastructure has returned to the forefront of global priorities, supported by ongoing technological innovation that improves safety, efficiency, and environmental performance.
In the United States, Lane plays a key role in advancing this vision by delivering major roadway, bridge, rail, and civil infrastructure projects in close partnership with public owners, industry partners, and local communities—emphasizing safety, collaboration, innovation, and responsible stewardship in alignment with the broader Webuild Group.
Webuild’s inclusion in the TIME100 Most Influential Companies of 2026 reinforces its position as a global infrastructure leader and reflects the collective contributions of its organizations worldwide, including Lane, in shaping resilient and sustainable infrastructure for the future.
More information about the recognition is available on TIME’s website:
TIME100 Most Influential Companies 2026
About Lane Construction
The Lane Construction Corporation is one of America’s leading construction companies, specializing in large, complex civil infrastructure. For over 135 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 is also a pioneer in project delivery methods and the use of design-build and public-private partnerships. Lane projects include the I-275/SR 60 Westshore Interchange in Florida; the Palisades Tunnel project in New Jersey; the 495 NEXT project in Virginia; and the Kansas City Levees project in Missouri. Based in Charlotte, NC, it is wholly owned by Webuild, a global infrastructure group. For more information, visit www.laneconstruct.com.
About Webuild Group
Webuild is a global leader in the construction of large, complex infrastructure, with a focus on sustainable mobility, hydropower, water treatment and supply, and green buildings. It has long been recognised as the world’s top contractor in the water infrastructure sector. Active in approximately 50 countries, the Group employs some 95,000 people directly and indirectly of over 125 nationalities. With 120 years of history and over 3,700 completed projects, Webuild boasts a track record that includes 13,686 kilometres of railways, 895 kilometres of metros, 82,708 kilometres of roads and highways, 1,023 kilometres of bridges and viaducts, 3,466 kilometres of tunnels, and 320 dams and hydropower plants. Among its most iconic delivered projects are the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, the expansion of the Panama Canal, the Long Beach International Gateway in the United States, the Second Bosphorus Bridge in Turkey, the Riachuelo environmental restoration system in Argentina, and new metro lines in cities such as Copenhagen, Paris, Rome, Milan, Naples, Doha, Thessaloniki, and Riyadh. Among those under construction are strategic public works in Italy, such as the New Genoa Breakwater, the Brenner Base Tunnel, the Pedemontana Lombarda Highway, Rome Metro’s Line C, sections of high-speed and/or high-capacity railways between Genoa and Milan, Verona and Padua, Naples and Bari, and Palermo, Catania and Messina. Abroad, there is the Snowy 2.0 hydropower scheme in Australia and key sections of the Grand Paris Express in France. As of December 31, 2025, the Group reported total revenues of €13.6 billion and a total order backlog of €58.4 billion, with over 95% of the construction backlog aligned with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Webuild is headquartered in Italy and subject to the direction and coordination of Salini Costruttori S.p.A. Listed on the Milan Stock Exchange (WBD; WBD.MI; WBD:IM), its stock is included in the MIB ESG index of Italy’s leading blue-chip companies for ESG practices. For more information, visit www.webuildgroup.com.