Innovation
24 Results
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Is Faster Still Better?
GHG emissions analysis challenges conventional approach to designing overland conveyors.
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Desalination Plants for the Mining Industry: Promoting Efficient Water Usage
While the mining sector in Chile represents only 1.3 percent of the total water consumption at the national level, water remains a scarce and finite resource. Learn about how Bechtel has been involved in building three of Chile’s largest desalination plants supplying industrial water to production facilities and drinking water to populations without access.
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Sumaq Wasi Housing: Beating the Cold
In this three-part series, Bechtel's Heloisa Schmidt, manager, Corporate Sustainability, and Mellissa Case, sustainable development manager, Mining and Metals, share their on-the-ground experiences in Peru talking to Bechtel colleagues, partners, and community members. In this first installment, learn about the innovative partnership that is helping to protect indigenous families from extreme frost in the remote Andes.
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"Cool" Tech
A team of researchers at Purdue University and Bechtel unveiled a potentially disruptive cooling technology for heating, ventilation, and air conditioning, or HVAC, systems, leading to substantial power savings in manufacturing and industrial buildings.
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Bechtel joins the White House to discuss expanding pathways for skilled craft professionals.
Brendan Bechtel joined senior administration officials and business and labor leaders at the White House to discuss how the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law presents an opportunity to create and expand pathways to good jobs.
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Supporting the new frontier: Bechtel in space
Mike Costas, general manager of Bechtel's Defense and Space business, discusses the infrastructure needed to drive the new space economy.
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The multiplier effect of rail
Read more to learn about rail and how it impacts population growth and urbanization around the world.
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The potential of digital twins in the rail industry
Learn more about how digital twins can improve operational efficiency and customer experience.
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Kentucky chemical weapons destruction project turns to in-state company for processing automation and robotics help
Read more about how the Blue Grass Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant turns to an in-state company for processing automation and robotics help.
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Welding and Applied Construction Technology
Read more on how our project team at Bechtel’s Welding and Applied Technology Center delivered solutions when faced with complex challenges.
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Clean Energy Innovation: A Path to Strengthen U.S. Competitiveness & Drive Global Development
In this panel discussion hosted recently by Foreign Policy, Brendan Bechtel, Poland’s minister for energy, and the head of the U.S. Export-Import Bank discuss these challenges and opportunities, and what the U.S. can do to maintain its leadership in nuclear and compete in the market for clean-energy technologies.
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Disrupting Cooling Technology: Accelerating the Path to Net Zero
Bechtel is disrupting cooling fundamentals with our novel cycle technology. Crescendō targets improved cooling performance with its breakthrough architecture, commanding greater energy and cost efficiencies to meet growing demands globally.
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Putting soap and water right at hand
Innovation helps Engineers Without Borders USA project in Uganda deliver public handwashing stations.
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Rolling out the next generation of concrete design and delivery
Learn more about a comprehensive concrete delivery system to decrease costs, improve schedules, and enhance sustainability.
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Beyond master planning
How infrastructure plays a pivotal role in determining holistic, long-term solutions to major world challenges.
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Illuminating Aircraft
Check out this Technical Talk interview with Mai Yeung, who's research paper on Apron Floodlighting received the 2019 “Paper of the Year” award from the Illuminating Engineering Society Aviation Lighting Committee.
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Sustainability Drives Innovation, Cost Savings at Saltstone Disposal Unit 6
See how Bechtel colleagues have partnered with DOE to achieve their mission to leave a safer environment for future generations.
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How to Innovate When “Fail Fast, Fail Often” Isn’t an Option
In our experience, the best way to mature innovative solutions is to prototype them in a physical environment that closely reflects job site conditions, essentially a lab for designers and builders. Doing so results in a better understanding of integration complexity, the capabilities of the technology, and real versus theoretical benefit discrepancies, as well as the implications of how solutions might be deployed and scaled.
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Innovating for Engagement
As part of the delivery of the Amrun bauxite mine project in Australia, Bechtel utilized virtual reality to engage the local Aboriginal Traditional Owners – the Wik-Waya people.
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Construction Practices for a Sustainable Future
Reducing GHG or CO2 emissions takes a concerted effort, and the engineering and construction industry plays an important role to support a low carbon future through innovation, enhanced practices, and the future of work.
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Using Text Analytics to Help Reduce the Risk of Modern Day Slavery
Bechtel utilizes a unique, objective analysis to understand the risks of modern day slavery to improve business efficiencies and decision-making processes on preventing MDS.
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Controlling Flooding with Permeable Concrete
Bechtel examines the opportunity of utilizing permeable concrete and other associated materials to help control flooding in developed cities.