International tunnel construction company
Ghella is an Italian and international
civil engineering company,
[1]
[2] specialized in the
construction of large public infrastructural works and underground excavations through the use of
tunnel boring machines .
[3]
[4] The company builds
rapid transit systems (subways),
railways ,
highways and
hydraulic works.
[5] Ghella is also active in the
renewable energy sector, with
photovoltaic and hydroelectric power generation plants. The company has built, in joint venture with
Acciona , the first stage of the
Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park .
[6]
[7] Today Ghella employs more than 3.600 people, lives 14 countries
[8] and operates in 4 continents, especially in
Europe , the
Far East , the
Americas and
Oceania .
[5]
History
The company was founded in 1894 by Domenico Ghella.
[9] Before this date, Domenico worked as a miner in
France , in the construction of the
Suez Canal in
Egypt , in the funicular tunnel in
Istanbul and to build the Trans-siberian railway.
[10] Today, the company is led by the fifth generation of the Ghella family.
[9]
Ghella has 150 years of experience and builds, for sustainability and with
innovation , through the use advanced
technologies and cutting-edge
construction methods. Over the years it has built more than 130
tunnels and connected over 1000 km of
highways ,
railways and
subways around the world.
[8]
Operations
Major works
Systems for the environment
Major projects
Completed projects
Ongoing projects
Brenner Base Tunnel - Metro of Europe, Mules (
Italy ), 2016
[18]
Cross River Rail ,
Brisbane (
Australia ), 2019
[19]
Central Interceptor ,
Auckland (
New Zealand ), 2019
[20]
Broadway Subway extension of the Millennium Line,
Vancouver (
Canada ), 2020
[21]
[22]
[23]
M6 Motorway Sydney , Sydney (Australia), 2021
[24]
Naples–Bari High Speed Railway ,
Telese -
Vitulano (
Italy ), 2021
[25]
Sydney Metro Western Sydney Airport , Sydney (Australia), 2022
[26]
Turin-Lyon Lot 1 Saint Jean de Maurienne AV,
Saint Jean de Maurienne (
France ), 2022
[27]
Sydney Metro West - Eastern Tunneling Package, Sydney (Australia), 2022
[28]
[29]
[30]
Other activities
The company is involved as partner in the promotion of cultural projects. During the pandemic period, Ghella supported the exhibit and catalog INSIEME, a project conceived by Gianni Politi and promoted by
Roma Capitale , Sovrintendenza Capitolina ai Beni Culturali. The exhibit was realized inside the
Aurelian Walls to display the works of 19 artists and build a dialogue between monument and contemporary
[31]
In 2021, Ghella commissioned a series of photographic campaigns on construction sites in Europe, the Far East and Oceania. The works were collected in the catalog “Di roccia, fuochi e avventure sotterranee” curated by Alessandro Dandini de Sylva
[32] and displayed in an exhibit at the
MAXXI museum in Rome.
External links
References
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