On 31 May 2013, he was honoured with the title of Cavaliere del Lavoro (Knight of Labour, for his service to industry), and on 11 December 2013 he won the Tiepolo Award in Madrid for the deal that resulted in the takeover of Impregilo.

In July 2012, after both a proxy fight and a board meeting aimed at changing current management, Salini was appointed chief executive officer of Impregilo.

Today the Salini Impregilo Group boasts a construction portfolio above €29bn with operations in over 50 countries across 5 continents, employing approximately 31,000 people.

On 22 April 2021 the CEO of Webuild, Pietro Salini, in Catania in a joint press conference with the President of the Sicilian Region Nello Musumeci, announced that he was ready to build the Strait of Messina Bridge, starting immediately with the works and on the basis of the executive project and construction site approved definitively in 2013.

[6] He declared that he already had the 4 billion euro coverage necessary for the construction of the Work and that he could obtain the other two necessary for the infrastructures connected to it from private financing.