Ghella (company)

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Ghella
Type Società per Azioni
Industry Construction, Engineering
Founded1894
Headquarters
Rome
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Italy
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Website www.ghella.com

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]

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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

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.

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