Press Releases

December 19, 2003

BECHTEL CIVIL SIGNS $2.5 BILLION ROMANIAN MOTORWAY PROJECT

The four-lane motorway, stretching from Brasov in the Romania interior to Oradea on the Romania-Hungarian border, forms an important section of the Romanian national motorway system. It will link the Black Sea, via Bucharest, to Central and Western Europe. This...

December 11, 2003

BECHTEL/PARSONS BRINCKERHOFF STATEMENT ON POSSIBLE LAWSUIT RELATED TO BOSTON CENTRAL ARTERY/TUNNEL

This issue has received intense scrutiny and has been reviewed by several State and Federal oversight agencies.  Indeed, the Inspector General of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts issued a report in March 2001 stating:  “In 1994 Bechtel/Parsons Brinckerhoff  (B/PB) provided the...

December 3, 2003

Iraq Project Update to U.S. Congress

Status Report: Iraq Infrastructure Reconstruction Project December 2, 2003    Major Milestones Port of Umm Qasr Reopened Iraq’s only deepwater port to receive hundreds of thousands of tons of food and humanitarian supplies for 22 million Iraqi citizens as well...

November 19, 2003

Bechtel Announces Winner of the 2003 National Clean Energy Venture Competition

Advent Solar, Inc., based in Albuquerque, New Mexico, beat out 35 competitors to take the top prize of $7,000 plus incubation services from the Austin Clean Energy Incubator valued at more than $3,000. Winners were announced Wednesday by Julie Brokaw...

October 31, 2003

Getting the Facts Straight: Bechtel’s Response to Allegations About its Work in Iraq

A number of inaccurate and misleading statements have been made recently regarding Bechtel’s work under the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in Iraq, suggesting that Bechtel has won sweetheart deals, overcharged the federal government, and failed to employ Iraqis....

October 30, 2003

Getting the Facts Straight: Bechtel’s Response to Newsweek

I was profoundly disappointed with Newsweek’s November 3 article, “The $87 Billion Money Pit,” and cannot help but think that this was a story in search of failures rather than an objective search for the truth about the efforts to reconstruct...

October 6, 2003

Bechtel Helps Rehabilitate 1,153 Iraqi Schools

Approximately 1 million children will be returning to the newly refurbished schools. The schools program will refurbish approximately 1,200 schools in 14 major cities throughout Iraq.

September 23, 2003

Iraq Infrastructure Reconstruction Program Update

Airport Infrastructure The immediate mission of the Airports program is to restore critical infrastructure at Baghdad (BIA) and Basrah (BSR) international airports to support opening of the airports for limited, international, commercial flights operating under daytime visual meteorological conditions (VMC)....

September 22, 2003

Bechtel and GE File Arbitration Over Dabhol Power Company

"We have attempted to resolve our legal and contractual claims but have been blocked at every turn," said Rick Smith, Executive Vice President and Managing Director of Bechtel Enterprises. "Regrettably, this international arbitration demand must be made."   "We will...