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WTP Celebrates 50 Percent Completion
Bechtel National’s Waste Treatment and Vitrification Plant (WTP) project at Hanford, Washington, recently surpassed its 50-percent-complete milestone.
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Tunnel Excavation Begins on Dulles Rail
The Dulles Corridor Metrorail project reached a major milestone recently, as excavation of a 2,400-foot tunnel under the busy Tysons Corner area of the Washington, D.C. suburbs began on October 12. This section represents the most complex engineering and construction challenge of the project.
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Prairie State Featured in a Union Magazine
The construction of Prairie State Energy Campus is featured in International Operating Engineer.
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Bechtel Recognizes World-Class Experts
Bechtel Corporation named three employees as Bechtel Fellows, a select group of experts in science and technology who have made outstanding contributions to the company and their professions.
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Livermore Lab Technology Cleans Superfund Site 100 Years Ahead of Schedule
Steam-cleaning technology created at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory was used to clean a Superfund site in California's Central Valley, finishing the job a century earlier than expected.
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Bechtel Partners on Solar Generating System
BrightSource Energy, Inc., developer of large-scale solar thermal energy plants, announced today that it has selected Bechtel, the world's premier engineering, construction and project management firm, as the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contractor for the Ivanpah Solar Electricity Generating System.
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Judith Miller Named to ABA Ethics Commission
Bechtel General Counsel Judith Miller has been named a member of the newly formed American Bar Association (ABA) Commission on Ethics 20/20. The commission will review lawyer ethics rules and regulation across the United States. Read the ABA release.
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Los Alamos, Lawrence Livermore Teams Rewarded for Science Excellence
R&D Magazine announced that eight project teams from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and five from its Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) were among the winners in its annual R&D 100 Awards competition. Bechtel is on the teams that manage and operate the two labs.
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Bechtel Awarded Feed Contract in Australia
Bechtel has been awarded a front-end engineering and design (FEED) contract for the first phase of Chevron’s Wheatstone natural gas development in northwest Australia. The first phase of the project consists of two liquefied natural gas processing trains, each with a capacity of about 4.3 million tons per year, and a domestic gas plant.
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Tube Lines Apprenticeship Program Rewarded
Tube Lines has been named Large Employer of the Year in the 2009 Apprenticeships Award competition run by the UK National Apprenticeship Service. The Awards recognize achievements of employers and apprentices in developing skills critical for the future of the country’s economy.
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Bechtel Recognized by the Readers of Diversity Magazine
Bechtel has been recognized by the readers of Diversity/Careers in Engineering & Information Technology magazine as one of the best diversity companies. The magazine’s readers and Web site visitors were asked to identify — based on their perceptions and experiences — the organizations that do the best work in diversity.
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EPC Terms Sheet Signed for Calvert Cliffs
AREVA and its U.S. consortium partner Bechtel Power Corporation today announced they have signed a term sheet with Baltimore-based UniStar Nuclear Energy outlining the terms and conditions for an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract for UniStar’s proposed Calvert Cliffs 3 nuclear energy facility project in Maryland. The EPC term sheet agreement is a critical step in negotiating an overall EPC contract.