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March 31, 2010

Bechtel Announces 2009 Business Results

Bechtel Corporation today announced 2009 revenue of $30.8 billion; new work booked of $20.3 billion; and backlog revenue of $82.1 billion. Revenue and new work booked for the year were below 2008’s record-breaking results of $31.4 billion and $35 billion,...

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March 29, 2010

Former Bechtel Exec Recognized For Lifetime Of Engineering Innovation, Excellence

Terrence E. (Ed) Richardson, a former senior vice president and distinguished engineer with Bechtel, has received one of the highest honors given by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE): the Outstanding Projects and Leaders (OPAL) Lifetime Achievement Award in construction. The...

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March 8, 2010

New Carbon Capture Technology Featured In The New York Times

Calera Corporation. Calera’s innovative process captures carbon dioxide emissions emitted by coal or gas-fired power plants and converts it into calcium and magnesium carbonates for use in manufacturing carbon negative products such as sand, aggregate, supplementary cementitious materials, and cement,...

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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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