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March 5, 2010

Bechtel Employees Get Creative To Help Maryland Charity

Bechtel employees in Frederick, MD, collected more than $10,000 in food and money to benefit the Frederick Rescue Mission during the 3rd annual Can-struction competition. The employees held a food drive, and then used the items to build spectacular structures. Teams built replicas...

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February 25, 2010

Bechtel Helps Kids Discover Engineering

For the past 20 years, Bechtel has partnered with the National Engineers Week Foundation on DiscoverE, a “teach in” in the United States that introduces primary and secondary school students to the exciting possibilities of a career in engineering. Stephen Bechtel Jr,...

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February 23, 2010

Bechtel Announces Epc Contract For Queensland Curtis Lng Project

Bechtel's Oil, Gas & Chemicals business unit has signed a multibillion-dollar EPC contract for the Queensland Curtis LNG project, located on Curtis Island near Gladstone, Australia. The two-train LNG facility will be owned and operated by QGC, a BG Group business. The project is...

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February 23, 2010

Loan Guarantees Offered For Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System

The U.S. Department of Energy has conditionally granted $1.37 billion in loan guarantees for construction and start up of the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System in southeastern California being built by BrightSource Energy Inc. and Bechtel. Bechtel partnered with BrightSource on the Ivanpah project as the engineering, procurement...

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February 16, 2010

Prairie State Featured In The St. Louis Labor Tribune

Construction progress on the Prairie State Energy Campus is featured in the St. Louis Labor Tribune, one of America’s oldest labor newspapers. Bechtel is building the 1,600-megawatt power plant in southern Illinois for Prairie State Generating Company LLC.  Learn more about Prairie...

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February 5, 2010

Bechtel Engineer Talks About Ace Mentor Program

Bechtel environmental engineer Kyra Davis discusses the important role ACE (Architecture, Construction, Engineering) Mentor Program had in her choosing a career in engineering. Read the Gazette story. ACE is a hands-on program in which mentors encourage high school students to pursue further education...

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February 3, 2010

Jubail Industrial City Featured In Pm Network Magazine

Jubail Industrial City, the largest civil engineering project in the world today, is featured in the February 2010 issue of PM Network magazine. Read the article, published by permission of the Project Management Institute. Bechtel has managed the Jubail project, located in the Eastern Province...

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January 21, 2010

Bechtel Project Recognized by Power Engineering

The W. H. Sammis Air Quality Control Project, for which Bechtel provided engineering, procurement, construction, and startup services, received honorable mention in the 2010 Power Engineering Projects of the Year awards.  The plant was recognized in the best coal-fired project...

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