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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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September 16, 2010

Bechtel Joins U.S. Effort to Improve Engineering Education

Bechtel is one of 100 firms partnering with a new national nonprofit, Change the Equation, to improve the performance of U.S. students in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education. The new organization was unveiled earlier today by President Barack...

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September 14, 2010

Bechtel to Help Develop Offshore Wind Farm

Bechtel has joined with two other companies to develop an offshore wind farm on Lake Erie near Cleveland, Ohio.  Bechtel Development Company, Inc., Cavallo Great Lakes Ohio Wind, LLC, and Great Lakes Wind Energy, LLC, comprise Great Lakes Ohio Wind,...

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August 17, 2010

Blue Grass Completes Design Phase

A Bechtel-led team at the Blue Grass Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant near Richmond, Kentucky, recently reached a significant milestone with the completion of the plant's design. This milestone was featured in the Richmond Register. To allow for site preparation and...

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