2012

Bechtel has been named a top employer by the readers of Woman Engineer magazine, earning a spot on the magazine’s 2012 list of Top 50 Employers.

The Bechtel-led team building Phase 1 of the Dulles Corridor Metrorail Project has installed the final segment of the elevated Tysons East Guideway, a key milestone signaling the close out of the heavy civil work needed on the project.

Bechtel and the Ma’aden Aluminium Company have celebrated a major safe working achievement at the Ras Al Khair Aluminium Smelter project in Saudi Arabia: 25 million job hours without a lost work day injury.

Bechtel National, Inc. has been named a Boeing Performance Excellence Award recipient for its work at the Ground-based Midcourse Defense project in 2011.

Workers at the Hanford Waste Treatment Plant, also known as the “Vit Plant,” surpassed 11 million hours without an injury resulting in a lost work day.

Engineering News-Record (ENR) has named Bechtel the top U.S. contractor for the 14th straight year.

An independent safety and health organization named Los Bronces Chile’s safest major mining project over the last 10 years.

Kristin Santamont shares her experiences as a Bechtel civil engineer for power plant design and construction.

Bechtel has achieved a major milestone at McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas, NV: substantial completion of the Terminal 3 building.

Bechtel has been awarded a contract by enXco, an EDF Energies Nouvelles Company, for the engineering, procurement, and construction of the Catalina Solar Photovoltaic Generating Project in Kern County in Southern California.

Bechtel Corporation today announced its business results for 2011, highlighting another strong year in which the company delivered solid performance.

Bechtel has signed an agreement to provide project management consulting services to the China Nuclear Power Engineering Company, a subsidiary of the China National Nuclear Corporation.

Bechtel is a Major Contributor to Emirates’ Infrastructure.

Bechtel’s project director at the Hanford Waste Treatment Plant (WTP) has publicly reaffirmed project leadership’s commitment to ensuring a world-class nuclear safety and quality culture at WTP.

Bechtel Corporation announced today that Edward "Ward" Sproat is leading a comprehensive effort to advance the nuclear safety and quality culture at the Hanford Waste Treatment Plant (WTP), also known as the "Vit Plant."

Eighteen high school teams sponsored by Bechtel are competing in this year’s FIRST® Robotics Competition, a high-tech sporting event featuring robots designed and built by students.

Bechtel Corporation announced the Waste Treatment Plant, also known as the "Vit Plant," received a 2012 Safe-in-Sound award from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health and the National Hearing Conservation Association.

Colleen Layman, an engineer at Bechtel, talks about her experiences with design, process engineering, startup, and operational support of water and wastewater treatment systems for power projects worldwide

Bechtel has been named a top employer by the readers of Minority Engineer magazine.

Bechtel Corporation and its employees will celebrate Engineers Week® 2012 by showing young people the significant and fascinating role engineering plays in the world.

Bechtel and L’Agence Nationale de Grands Travaux successfully delivered major new infrastructure vital to the 28th Africa Cup of Nations played in Gabon.

The Bechtel-led team building the Dulles Corridor Metrorail Project has successfully completed the tunnel that will carry the future rail line under a portion of Tysons Corner, Virginia, just outside of Washington, D.C.

The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration has dismissed the complaint Michael Klink filed against Bechtel, saying the evidence did not support Mr. Klink’s claims.

A Benton County Superior Court judge in Washington state dismissed the case Walt Tamosaitis filed against Bechtel National, Inc. (BNI).

Bechtel and Network Rail successfully replaced a major bridge in Reading, England, in four days as part of Network Rail’s improvement program for Reading station and the surrounding area. To minimize disruption to train service, crews worked around the clock to demolish the old Cow Lane Bridge and install a new span.

The challenges faced by Bechtel on the Kosovo motorway project are the subject of a special report in Engineering News Record. Bechtel is working on the project in a joint venture with its long term partner Enka.