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ENR Names Jubail II a World Megaproject
Engineering News Record (ENR) named Jubail II Industrial Complex, a project managed by Bechtel, one of the world’s 10 largest programs under construction. Read the article in ENR.
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Major Safety Milestone On Savannah River Remediation Project
Savannah River Remediation’s construction team recently achieved a major safety milestone – 12 consecutive years with more than 22.7 million hours of work without an injury causing a lost day at work. The importance of this achievement is underscored when compared to the national average of one lost day of work every 118,000 hours.
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Bechtel Completes Sale Of Equity Interest In Tube Lines
Bechtel today announced completion of the sale of its one-third interest in Tube Lines to Transport for London (TfL). Bechtel, along with its partner, Amey, has entered into an agreement to sell their interests in Tube Lines to Transport for London (‘TfL’) for a total of £310 million.
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A ‘Greener’ Steam Plant Brought On Line At Y-12
The Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, recently brought on line a new, more energy efficient steam plant that replaced one that had been in operation since the 1950s.
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Bechtel Announces ES&H Awards
Bechtel employees who demonstrate extraordinary commitment to safety and innovation have been recognized with the company’s annual Environmental, Safety and Health (ES&H) awards.
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H20 & Power Plants: A New Balance
In an article in POWER magazine, Bechtel engineers discuss several alternative cooling technologies that have been successfully utilized to reduce water use or consumption and evaluate their applicability for future power plant designs. Cooling water is essential to a power plant’s ability to produce electricity.
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Oak Ridge Waste Management Facility Expansion Ahead Of Schedule, Under Budget
Bechtel Jacobs Company LLC, (BJC) the lead contractor for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge Reservation Environmental Management program in Tennessee, recently completed an expansion of the program’s Environmental Management Waste Management Facility (EMWMF) a month ahead of schedule and under budget. This expansion is part of BJC’s work for the U.S. Department of Energy under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
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Bechtel Engineer Featured In Diversity Magazine
Diversity/Careers in Engineering and Information Technology, a publication focused on technical careers for groups traditionally underrepresented in technology, profiled Bechtel electrical engineer Fanta Sacko.
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Bechtel To Add Liquefaction Facilities At Louisiana LNG Receiving Terminal
Cheniere Energy Partners, L.P., a subsidiary of Cheniere Energy Inc., announced that its general partner’s Board of Directors has approved the initiation of a project to add liquefaction services at the Sabine Pass LNG receiving terminal in Cameron Parish, LA. Cheniere plans to work with Bechtel Oil, Gas and Chemicals to design and construct the liquefaction facilities, using the ConocoPhillips Optimized Cascade liquefaction technology.
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Massive Shield Door Installed At WTP
Bechtel’s construction team successfully completed the precision installation of a massive 50-ton (45-metric-ton) shield door at the Waste Treatment Plant (WTP) site in Hanford, Washington. The shield door is in a key area of WTP’s High-Level Waste Vitrification Facility and was installed to extremely tight tolerances, down to five-thousandths of an inch (0.13 millimeters), or less than the diameter of a human hair. The new door is one of six that Bechtel will install at WTP.
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Bechtel Named Top U.s. Contractor For 12th Straight Year
Bechtel Corporation has been named the top U.S. contractor in 2010 by Engineering News-Record (ENR), a leading U.S. trade publication for the construction industry. This marks the 12th consecutive year that Bechtel has ranked first.
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Bechtel Announces Agreed Sale Of Tube Lines’ Equity To Transport For London
Bechtel, a leading engineering, construction and project management firm, today announces that it has entered into an agreement to sell its one-third interest in Tube Lines to Transport for London (“TfL”) for £103 million. Amey will also sell its two-thirds interest to TfL.