Milestones Q2 2000

• Bechtel will provide program and construction management and construction services for Metromedia Fiber Network, Inc.'s buildout of its optical networks in metropolitan areas throughout North America and Europe. The agreement will help accelerate the customer's plan to deliver 5.8 million kilometers of local optical networks to customers in 67 markets. The agreement expands an existing relationship between the two companies.
• Bechtel, in conjunction with the newly formed Bechtel energy consulting firm Nexant, has been awarded a four-year energy conservation and commercialization project in India. The project is part of a long-term initiative to assist India's energy and power sector in promoting energy efficiency and greenhouse gas reduction. Bechtel will provide policy and regulatory assistance, as well as regulatory reform and restructuring support services.
  
• The British Construction Industry Awards has named the Mersey Valley Processing Centre as Best Major Project of 1999--the most prestigious award for construction in the United Kingdom. Bechtel is program manager for North West Water, the owner of the state-of-the-art sludge processing facility in northwest England. The competition included some of the U.K.'s largest and most visible infrastructure projects. Judges praised the plant as an outstanding example of how a good team can deliver a major project on a tight deadline.
• Bechtel has been awarded a lump-sum turnkey contract for engineering, procurement, construction, and start-up of two additional liquefied natural gas trains at a facility the company built at Point Fortin. The $880 million project, for Atlantic LNG 2/3 Company of Trinidad and Tobago Unlimited, will triple production at the plant. Completion is scheduled for September 2003.
• The EastWest Institute has presented the Bechtel-Enka joint venture with its Business Leadership Award for the companies' efforts to help victims of earthquakes that struck Turkey last year. Bechtel-Enka provided heavy equipment and personnel for search-and-rescue operations and is building a school in Adapazari, Turkey, for children of the affected area. Bechtel-Enka is building three power plants in Turkey.
• Gail Mattson, a project manager with Bechtel Jacobs Company LLC, was installed as national president of the Society of Women Engineers at its annual conference in Washington, D.C., in June. Mattson is deputy manager of the Oak Ridge Waste Disposition project, responsible for planning and directing a program to safely store and treat hazardous wastes. She has more than 22 years' experience in environmental engineering, project management, and operations management.
• Bechtel has broken ground on the Delta Energy Center, a new 880-megawatt, combined-cycle power plant in Pittsburg, California, near San Francisco. The plant is one of the first of a new generation of larger, but more efficient, natural-gas-fired facilities that meet California's tough environmental requirements. Bechtel Enterprises and Calpine, owners of the Delta Energy Center, expect to develop and build several other similar plants in the San Francisco Bay Area to help meet growing electricity demand.
• In recognition of its outstanding safety performance on the Portland Light Rail project, Bechtel has been named the first construction company on Oregon's Voluntary Protection Program list. The program encourages companies to develop policies and training to exceed the state's minimum safety requirements, and allows those with exemplary safety performance to regulate their own project safety conditions. The light rail project is adjacent to the state's busiest freeway and includes four bridges over heavy traffic.
• Bechtel will provide project management, construction management, and global procurement services for a $1.6 billion microchip manufacturing facility in Tianjin, China, for Motorola, Inc. The 93,000-square-meter plant will manufacture wafers for cellular telephones and pagers. It's Motorola's first wafer production facility in China, but the fifth Motorola facility Bechtel has constructed in the Tianjin area. The first phase of the job will be completed in early 2001.
• Bechtel has been awarded a contract from @Link Networks to extend its private network of broadband telecommunications equipment to more than 1,100 telephone central offices in 30 U.S. markets. The equipment will offer high-speed connectivity solutions for small and medium-sized businesses and Internet service providers that send and receive large amounts of data. In addition to the construction contract, financial and operational support will be provided by Bechtel Enterprises subsidiary Incepta LLC. Completion is scheduled for fourth quarter 2000.
• The latest development at the Channel Tunnel Rail Link project, where Bechtel is leading joint-venture partner, is the breakthrough in the center of North Downs Tunnel, one of the primary structures along the first phase of construction from the Channel Tunnel to north Kent. The 3.2-kilometer-long bore is the first high-speed rail tunnel in the United Kingdom. Nine cut-and-cover tunnels are also being constructed—coincidentally totaling 3.2 kilometers—as well as 117 bridges.
• Mexico's Comisión Federal de Electricidad has announced that InterGen Aztec Energy X B.V., an affiliate of the Bechtel Enterprises-Shell joint venture InterGen, has been awarded a contract to build, own, and operate a 750-megawatt, combined-cycle power plant near Mexicali. The natural gas-powered plant will help meet rising energy demand in the U.S.-Mexico border area. InterGen is also building a 600-megawatt natural gas-powered plant in Mexico's Guanajuato state. The new plant will be operational by 2003.
• Bechtel Enterprises subsidiary BCN Data Systems Limited has signed a five-year contract with British Gas to provide fixed radio gas and electricity meter reading services in what will become Britain's largest such deployment ever. BCN's system eliminates the need for in-home, manual meter reads and estimated readings due to meter inaccessibility. The system uses small electronic units attached to meters that read and transmit the results wirelessly to utility offices.
• Bechtel has successfully impounded saltwater at the Cardiff Bay Barrage, an undertaking crucial to redevelopment of Cardiff, the coastal capital city of Wales. The project included construction of a dam across an estuary where two rivers meet, an embankment, locks, sluices, harbor, and one of the largest fish passes in Europe to create a new freshwater bay. Saltwater impoundment was a necessary step to prove the effectiveness of the dam, embankments, and equipment.