- Doha International Airport
With its stunning terminals, the New Doha International Airport project for the government of Qatar has helped create a regional landmark able to accommodate the new generation of superjumbo airliners.
In the competitive infrastructure market, Bechtel continues to deliver high-value solutions in North America; Europe; Africa; the Middle East; and, most recently, South America.
Our ongoing Morine-Merdare Motorway project for the government of Kosovo combines complex stakeholder management challenges with fast-track design management and construction.
In a 30-year, multiphased effort, Bechtel has minimized interference with daily operations while tripling the size of Las Vegas’ McCarran International Airport for the Clark County Department of Aviation.
The innovative overhead truss cranes used at the Dulles Corridor Metrorail project in Virginia allowed us to assemble bridge spans as daily business in crowded suburbs continued without interruption.
In 2011, Bechtel’s Civil Infrastructure group expanded the depth and breadth of its worldwide scope with important project awards that build on an already regionally diverse portfolio.
As we made rapid progress toward completion of the New Doha Inter- national Airport in Qatar, our Aviation group won a contract to design and build a new passenger terminal at Muscat for Oman’s Ministry of transport and Communications. This strategically important win helps maintain our strong presence in the Middle East while complementing other aviation work worldwide. In Las Vegas, we are nearing completion of a new terminal at McCarran International Airport. At London’s Gatwick Airport, we are helping Global Infrastructure Partners build a capital project management team as part of a major investment program.
Elsewhere in London, we are supporting the delivery of transport for London’s new east-west rail link called Crossrail, Europe’s largest current infrastructure project. We also continue to provide project management services for upgrades at the adjacent Crossrail & Reading project for longtime customer Network Rail. At year’s end, we replaced Reading Station’s Cow Lane Bridge in just four days, a great achievement.
Under another new contract, our Rail team is assisting Metro Rio with delivery of rolling stock for Rio de Janeiro’s subway system, marking Bechtel’s return to Brazil.
Our Dulles Corridor Metrorail project team made substantial progress last year near Washington, D.C., extending the metro in Northern Virginia for the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority.
In Kosovo, our record-breaking execution facilitated the opening of the first 24 miles (38 kilometers) of the Morine-Merdare Motorway, just 19 months after contract signing.
For the government of Gabon, we completed a national infrastructure plan and supported facilities construction for this year’s Africa Cup of Nations football championships.
In Saudi Arabia, we continued to provide project management services for the Royal Commission for Jubail and Yanbu’s Jubail Industrial City, where we have worked for more than 30 years.