ASTALDI : HAS BEEN AWARDED THE MONOPOLI-FASANO HOSPITAL IN ITALY. START OF THE WORKS FOR THE NAPLES-BARI HIGH-SPEED RAILWAY

ASTALDI HAS BEEN AWARDED THE MONOPOLI-FASANO HOSPITAL IN ITALY.

START OF THE WORKS FOR THE NAPLES-BARI HIGH-SPEED RAILWAY.

New 2017 orders at EUR 3.1 billion as of today

Rome, 4 January 2018 - Astaldi announces that, as part of a joint venture, has been awarded the EUR 73 million contract (Astaldi share: 70%) for the construction of the New Southeast Bari Area Hospital (Nuovo Ospedale del Sud-Est Barese) in Monopoli-Fasano, Italy. The construction contract calls for the performance of all the civil works and all the systems in a new healthcare facility in the Region of Puglia, which will provide 299 beds and 9 operating rooms over a total floor space covering 178,000 square metres. The Customer is Azienda Sanitaria Locale della Provincia di Bari (the local health concern of the Province of Bari). The works will have a duration of approximately 3 years. In line with common practice, the contract is expected to be signed after verification of the prerequisites for taking part in the tender.

Furthermore, a EUR 397 million contract (Astaldi share: 40%) was signed with Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane Group on 18 December for the construction of the Naples-Cancello Lot of the new Naples-Bari High-Speed Railway in Italy. The signing of the agreement follows the award recorded last March and marks the beginning of the activities and the consequent insertion into the orders backlog of the contract value.

Lastly, on 22 December, the Italian Government's Interministerial Economic Programming Committee ("CIPE") approved the final design of the Functional Lot 1, Verona-Vicenza Junction, of the Verona-Vicenza-Padua High-Speed / High-Capacity Line, in Italy, and authorised the start of the works for the 1st construction lot. This approval sets out the conditions for signing the Supplementary Document for this contract, and for the subsequent start of the work site activities by no later than the first half of 2018. At present, the contract results to be entered in the Group's orders backlog for a value equalling over EUR 900 million (Astaldi's share).

As of today, the 2017 new orders total EUR 3.1 billion.

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Astaldi Group is one of Italy's leading General Contractors, and among Europe's top 25 firms in the construction industry, where it also works as a sponsor of project finance initiatives. An international player for 90 years, it addresses the market by developing complex and integrated initiatives in the field of designing, building, and operating public infrastructures and large-scale civil engineering works, mainly in the areas of Transport Infrastructures, Energy Production Plants, Civil and Industrial Construction, Facility Management, Plant Engineering, and Management of Complex Systems. Listed on the stock market since 2002, it ended the 2016 financial year with a total order backlog of over EUR 27 billion and turnover of more than EUR 3 billion. It boasts more than 11,500 employees and operates mainly in Italy, Europe (Poland, Romania and Russia) and Turkey, Africa (Algeria), North America (Canada and the USA), Latin America, the Middle East (Saudi Arabia) and the Far East (Indonesia).

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