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Our government services unit is creating an international business even better aligned with customers’ missions and evermore responsive to their needs. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers recognized our innovative use of self-consolidating concrete to create blast-proof wall segments at two chemical demilitarization facilities, in Pueblo, Colorado and Richmond, Kentucky (below).
Bechtel National entered its 10th year providing site operations, maintenance and mission assistance, and logistical support for the Reagan Test Site in the remote Marshall Islands.
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Although most of Bechtel’s U.S. government work has historically been for the energy and Defense departments, we are bringing private sector practices to a more diverse set of government customers with four new, market-focused business lines. In environmental management, we now provide EPC services for the retrieval, handling, and packaging of legacy waste from silos at the UK’s Sellafield nuclear reprocessing site. The opportunity developed because of our recognized expertise on nuclear projects in the United States and our 60-year history in the UK. Other work by this group includes designing and building the world’s largest radioactive waste treatment plant, as well as environmental cleanup and remediation, decommissioning, and closure of high-level waste facilities in Washington state, New Mexico, and South Carolina. Meanwhile, our defense and security business line neared mechanical completion at a weapons depot in Pueblo, Colorado. Pueblo is one of our two U.S. Department of Defense projects designed to safely treat and dispose of obsolete chemical agent in accordance with demilitarization treaties (the other being the Blue Grass facility in Kentucky). Other current defense work includes the Ground-based Midcourse Defense program in Alaska, where we completed infrastructure construction and earned our customer’s highest performance award last year. We also continued to provide management services for a test range in the Marshall Islands. Key contracts for our national security and allied governments group include management and operation services at Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories — two of the U.S. government’s premier research and development institutions. this group also manages and operates two nuclear manufacturing and assembly plants charged with ensuring U.S. nuclear stockpile safety and reliability. Completing our portfolio are two laboratories and an engineering organization managed by our U.S. Naval Programs team that support research and development, design, acquisition management, reactor operator training, and spent fuel management for nuclear propulsion systems. |
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