The Lane Construction Corporation, the U.S. subsidiary of Webuild Group, has been awarded a US$236 million design-build contract for improvements to widen I-40 in Orange County, North Carolina.

The Orange County I-40 contract consists of 11 miles of road widening of I-40 from I-85 to the Durham County line with interchange modifications from four to six lanes (three lanes in each direction).

Once completed, the project will relieve peak hour congestion and ease mobility between the existing I-85 interchange to the existing six-lane section at the end of the project. One of its environmentally sustainable features is the recycling of the existing concrete pavement into sub-base material for the new lanes, with the milled asphalt also to be recycled. Work is expected to begin in the fall of 2022 and be completed by end of 2025.