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Locations and operational activities[edit]

Bechtel's major operational locations are in Brisbane,[1] Calgary,[2] Dubai,[3][4] Frederick, Maryland,[5] Houston,[6] London,[7] Montreal,[8] New Delhi,[9] Reston, Virginia,[10] San Francisco,[11] Santiago,[12] Shanghai, Taipei,[13] and Washington, D.C.[14]

The company's main headquarters are located at its San Francisco office,[10] while the Reston office houses the company's global operational headquarters, as well as the headquarters of U.S. Government Services and U.S. Civil Infrastructure units.[10][5] The Power business unit is based at its Frederick office.[5] The company's Oil, Gas & Chemicals unit is based in the Houston office.[15] The Washington office maintains both a Political Action Committee and a lobbying program.[16]

Outside the U.S., the Civil unit’s headquarters is located at the company’s London office.[12] The Mining & Metals unit is headquartered at the company’s Brisbane office[17] and also maintains operations in Santiago, Montreal, and Dubai.[18][8][3] Both the Calgary and New Delhi offices are major locations.[2] In 2013, the company established its global center of engineering excellence in Dubai focusing on rail and marine projects.[4][19]

Bechtel works on megaprojects through its five business units.[20] The company frequently manages work from design through construction phases.[21][22][23] Its corporate values include safety, quality, and ethics.[24][23][11]

Civil Infrastructure[edit]

The Civil Infrastructure unit handles infrastructure, highways and bridges, rail, ports, and aviation projects, as well as hydroelectric facilities.[25] It has built more than 17,000 miles of roadway as well as 20 towns and cities globally.[20] It has worked on 80 port and harbor projects, and 90 major airport projects.[26][27]

As of February 2014, the unit is also developing the general plan for the Waad Al-Shamal city, an industrial complex built around a phosphate mine near Turaif, Saudi Arabia. It is also project managing the build, which is planned to include housing, businesses, and schools.[28][29]

Bechtel's Civil unit is leading a consortium in the engineering, procurement and construction of the lines One and Two of the Riyadh, Saudi Arabia metro, which began construction in April 2014.[30][31] In March 2014, it was announced Bechtel is part of a consortium to build a hydroelectric power plant for Manitoba Hydro in Manitoba, Canada.[32] The unit is involved in several other ongoing projects as of March 2014 including building national infrastructure in Gabon[33] and the continuous development of Jubail in Saudi Arabia.[3] Bechtel is participating in the building of London's Crossrail, a $24 billion project that will connect commuter towns east and west of London and is intended to serve an estimated 200 million people a year upon completion.[34][35] The unit began upgrades to the London Underground's Vauxhall station to accommodate more passengers in January 2014. The project was originally estimated at £45 million, but Bechtel was able to reduce the cost by £9 million by using more economical materials.[36]

The unit is completing work on an extension of the Dulles Corridor Metrorail in Northern Virginia[23] and Hamad International Airport in Doha, Qatar.[37] It completed a 77.4km four-lane motorway in Kosovo, which was finished a year ahead of schedule in November 2013.[38]

Government Services[edit]

The Government Services unit executes contracts for governmental organizations including the U.S. Departments of Defense and Energy.[13] Bechtel ranked 14th among companies by number of defense contracts in 2013.[39]

As of February 2014, the unit manages four national security-related facilities in the U.S. including the Los Alamos National Laboratory, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the Y-12 National Security Complex, and Pantex Plant.[40][41]

Other ongoing projects as of March 2014 are the construction of the facilities to treat the liquid radioactive waste stored underground at DOE’s Hanford nuclear waste site in Washington for the Department of Energy. The unit also manages U.S. Department of Defense contracts to dismantle and dispose of stored chemical weapons, including decades-old mustard and nerve gas from World War II.[14][42][43] In May 2012, a consortium including Bechtel, began construction on a structure that will safely confine the damaged Chernobyl Nuclear Reactor Number 4.[44]

In June 2013 the unit completed design and construction on a U.S. Missile Defense Agency project at Fort Greely, Alaska, which included three missile fields and forty silos.[45] In November 2013, Bechtel was awarded a US$7 billion contract to work on a nuclear propulsion project for the United States Navy.[46]

Bechtel won thirteen sustainability awards from the National Nuclear Security Administration in December 2013 for Y-12 National Security Complex, Los Alamos National Laboratory and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.[40]

Mining & Metals[edit]

The Mining & Metals unit works on projects related to the mining and production of materials such as aluminum, coal, copper, iron ore and other metals and minerals. The unit operates on six continents and has completed more than 2,500 major mining projects as well as over 1,000 mining studies.[47][48]

Projects include constructing Saudi Arabia's first aluminum smelter in Ras Al-Khair in 2013[48][47] and completing the Caval Ridge coal mine in Queensland, Australia.[49]

In September 2013, the unit completed the expansion of the Kooragang Coal Terminal in Port Waratah in Australia, increasing capacity to 145 million tons.[50] The unit won a contract to build a water system hand desalination plant for the Escondida copper mine in Chile in December 2013.[51][47]

Oil, Gas & Chemicals[edit]

The Oil Gas & Chemical unit designs and builds liquefied natural gas (LNG), oil, pipeline support, petrochemicals, and natural gas facilities.[52][13][53] The unit also constructs and tests tanks for LNG storage.[54]

The unit has been building three LNG plants on Curtis Island in Queensland, Australia since 2011. The Australian Pacific LNG, Gladstone LNG and Queensland Curtis LNG sites employ more than 11,000 workers and have completion dates between 2014 and 2015.[55] The unit is also constructing the Wheatstone project, a two-train LNG plant that is one of Australia's largest energy resource efforts.[56] Bechtel was awarded the front-end engineering and design of the Wheatstone plant and LNG trains in 2009.[22]

Bechtel is responsible for the engineering, procurement and construction of two LNG trains for the Sabine Pass Liquefaction project in Louisiana.[57] In May 2013, the unit was awarded a contract for the front-end engineering design of the Pacific NorthWest LNG in Vancouver, BC.[58] In December 2013, the unit was contracted to build three LNG trains, three LNG storage tanks, and two berths in Corpus Christi, Texas.[59]

In June 2013, Bechtel was named the project manager of a megapetrochemical complex in Qatar at the Ras Laffan Industrial City.[60] Bechtel's technology was licensed to be used for facility upgrades at the Rijeka Refinery in Croatia in February 2014.[61] The unit was awarded a contract to construct facilities in Georgia for the Shah Deniz II gas field in Azerbaijan.[53]

Power[edit]

The Power unit has four lines of business: fossil, nuclear, renewables, and communications & transmission.[62] The unit works in electrical generation from nuclear, coal, solar, and wind sources. It has worked on approximately 150 nuclear power plants as of June 2013.[62][63]

Power's projects include the Panda Temple Project, a clean natural gas power plant in Temple, Texas that is designed to provide enough electricity to power 750,000 homes,[64] and work on the Tennessee Valley Authority's Watts Bar 2 nuclear reactor, which is expected to be completed in 2015.[62][65]

In June 2013, the unit won an engineering, procurement and construction contract to replace three steam generators at the Beaver Valley Nuclear Generating Station in Shippingport, Pennsylvania.[63]

Bechtel's renewable projects include the world's largest solar thermal project, the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System in California, which began producing power in February 2014 and has the capacity to double solar thermal power production in the United States.[66][62] The unit also completed the Catalina Solar photovoltaic generating facility in 2013 and is completing the construction of the California Valley Solar Ranch.[67]

In August 2013, the unit completed the Hanna Region Transmission Development, a power transmission project in Canada, which included 1,200 new transmission towers and 219 miles of transmission lines.[68]

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