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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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September 28, 2010

Meeting the Clean-up Challenge at Hanford

Washington Closure Hanford is making great strides with its demolition and clean-up work on the 327 Building, one of the most contaminated structures at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Hanford Site in Washington state. Washington Closure Hanford is a partnership...

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September 22, 2010

Ivanpah Solar Project Approved

The California Energy Commission has approved the construction of BrightSource Energy’s Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System. Bechtel is partnering with BrightSource to build Ivanpah, which will be the world’s largest solar thermal facility, in the Mojave Desert.  The commission’s approval...

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September 17, 2010

Bechtel Briefs President of Gabon

H.E. Ali Bongo Ondimba, president of Gabon, met today with Bechtel executives to discuss a new project the company is undertaking for the Gabonese government. Bechtel Chairman and CEO Riley Bechtel and Mike Adams, president of Bechtel’s civil infrastructure unit,...

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