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Bechtel’s Impact Report

Access and Opportunity

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Connecting communities so no one is left behind

Our customers’ goals are clear — find ways to improve the quality of people’s lives, increase resiliency of infrastructure, and ensure access to services and opportunity so no one is left behind.

We are helping deliver nationwide fiber and communication networks and greener data centers to close the digital divide; building smart, sustainable transport like aviation, rail, roads, ports; and making future cities a reality. As with all our work, we offer customers innovate investment and development options to ensure their project becomes a reality.

With every project, we provide jobs and skills training that will equip local people for new opportunities and career growth long after we leave. We tpyically spend $15- and $20-billion annually in contract awards for goods and services, and look to the local supply chain first.

Creating cleaner, greener, smarter cities

NEOM, or “new future,” is a bold new model for sustainable living, working, and prospering. The futuristic city along the Red Sea in Saudi Arabia will become home to more than one million people. The project will set new standards for community health, environmental protection, and the productive use of technology.

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Delivering broadband access for all

To ensure that communities throughout the UK have access to high-speed internet service, CityFibre is upgrading connectivity for up to eight million homes and businesses by 2025. The project will create up to 10,000 jobs and has the potential to create regional economic growth of £85 billion. Learn more

Building 5-G ready roadways

The Serbian motorway is a 112-km (70-mile) 5G-ready motorway under development in the West Morava river valley. This project will connect half a million citizens living in the area and link 20,000 small and medium-sized enterprises along the area’s largest traffic corridors.

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Enabling 21st century travel

Sydney’s new metro – Australia’s biggest public transport project – promises a world-class, high-tech rail system that will provide a safe, fast, reliable, and connected commute to 40,000 customers per hour as they travel to the commercial business district and farther southwest.

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