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January 23, 2008

Bechtel and Parsons Brinckerhoff Reach Settlement on Big Dig

John MacDonald, chairman of the Bechtel/Parsons Brinckerhoff (B/PB) joint venture, issued the following statement: We have reached a full and final settlement of claims by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts. Protracted legal...

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January 10, 2008

ENR Honors Becon Executive

Engineering News-Record has named Tim Horst, president of Becon Construction, a Bechtel subsidiary, one of its Top 25 Newsmakers of 2007 . ENR recognized Horst for his work on the Gulf Coast Workforce Development Initiative (GCWDI) and its “I’m GREAT” campaign. GCWDI was established to recruit and...

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December 27, 2007

National Public Radio Reviews Events of Boston Central Artery

National Public Radio’s interview with City Journal’s Nicole Gelinas. Exploring how the project has changed the city’s landscape, she puts into perspective the improvements the project has had on Boston’s infrastructure. The largest U.S. urban transportation modernization ever undertaken, the project...

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December 26, 2007

Boston Globe Reviews Events of Boston Cat

Boston Globe’s 2007 year-end story on the Boston Central Artery/Tunnel reviews the engineering feats and events which led to the completion of the megaproject and the end of the Bechtel/Parsons Brinckerhoff joint venture with the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority. The largest U.S. urban...

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December 21, 2007

Tri-City Herald Features Hanford Vit Plant’s Work Restart

Tri-City Herald. Bechtel is building the huge plant for the U.S. Department of Energy at Hanford, Washington, site of the nation’s first and most extensive nuclear defense production program. The plant will address a critical environmental cleanup issue—some 53 million...

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December 20, 2007

ENR Features ‘I’m Great’ Trainees

Engineering News-Record features the experiences of trainees from the Gulf Coast Workforce Development Initiative (GCWDI) “I’m GREAT” campaign in a second online article this week on GCWDI. GCWDI was established to recruit and train construction craft workers for the Gulf Coast...

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December 7, 2007

Bechtel Awarded Anglo American Los Bronces Project

Anglo American’s Los Bronces Development project. The work on this US$ 1.7 billion project will start immediately.  The Los Bronces mine is located 65 kilometers from Santiago, Chile, and the existing operations comprise a mine, a 58,000 tons per day (tpd) copper...

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