Sustainability

Environmental impacts of the breakwater's construction are minimized.
The innovative construction project involves building a structure designed to protect the docks and port facilities from climate change, a true sea wall.

A solution has been envisaged to reuse almost all the material from the demolition of the old breakwater, with a circular economy way of seeing things, thus minimizing environmental impacts during construction, while concomitantly significantly reducing material transport and disposal, and thus fuel consumption.

As for the concretes used for the construction of cellular caissons, a special mixture has been developed to significantly increase their impermeability.

A number of highly specialized manufacturing plants are to be used simultaneously to make the cellular caissons.  Once the caissons are built and waterproofed, they are transported by sea to the project location, sunk and filled with inert recycled materials from the demolition of the old breakwater.

An advanced monitoring sensor system will then allow the infrastructure to be monitored both during construction and after its completion.

Since March 2024, the consortium led by the Webuild Group has partnered with the Acquario di Genova (Genoa Aquarium), to safeguard the sea eco-system in the underwater construction site of the New Genoa Breakwater, and to support an eco-responsible approach in the infrastructure sector. This partnership sees transferring temporarily the sea-life found on the seabed where works are been carried out to the Acquario di Genova, where they will stay until they are then once again put back in the sea when works have been completed.