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December 15, 2010

Bechtel Selected for First-of-its-kind Nuclear Project

Bechtel will provide design and project management support services for the first commercial nuclear power plant in the Middle East. The plant will be one of four that a consortium headed by the Korean Electric Power Corporation (KEPCO) will build...

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December 6, 2010

Bechtel Project Receives Prestigious Award

The W. H. Sammis Air Quality Control Project, for which Bechtel provided engineering, procurement, construction and startup services, was named Construction Project of the Year at the 2010 Platts Global Energy Awards. The award was presented in New York on...

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November 21, 2010

Bechtel Engineer Featured in College Issue of Diversity Magazine

Bechtel values an inclusive culture based on the diverse backgrounds, experience, and views of its employees working around the globe on hundreds of projects in nearly 50 countries. Bechtel works closely with the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering...

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October 29, 2010

Safety Innovation Award for Los Alamos Laboratory

Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) recently received the U.S. Department of Energy Voluntary Protection Program’s Innovation Award for its “best-in-class” safety education program of videos, flyers, and posters. The award recognizes LANL for outstanding industry performance and leadership in promoting...

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October 29, 2010

Significant Progress on Dulles Metrorail

Construction of the Dulles Corridor Metrorail Extension project, which is being built near Washington, D.C., is moving forward above and below ground. Crews have made significant progress on the elevated guideway structure that will carry the Metrorail over I-495, the...

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October 27, 2010

Groundbreaking on Ivanpah Solar

Bechtel joined BrightSource Energy today in a ceremony to mark the start of construction of the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System, a groundbreaking project that will usher in a new era of advanced solar power in the United States.The ceremony...

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October 22, 2010

Bechtel-Enka Completes Albanian Motorway

Bechtel and joint-venture partner Enka today completed construction on the Albanian Motorway, a 37-mile (61-km), four-lane highway that stretches from central Albania to the to Kosovo border. The motorway is now open to traffic.  The end of construction was marked...

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October 11, 2010

Bechtel Prepares for Construction of Ivanpah

Bechtel is now working on the site where it will build BrightSource Energy’s Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System. Crews began preparing the site on October 8, just one day after the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) issued the Record...

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September 29, 2010

Bechtel Engineer Talks About Integrating Energy Resources

Justin Zachary, a Bechtel Fellow and a noted expert in renewable energy research, is featured in an article in “The Combined Cycle Journal” that examines the integration of solar and conventional energy resources. Read the article.   Learn about approaches...

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