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From Ore to Energy: The Lithium Battery Journey
At the heart of energy transition is a powerful force for the future: lithium. This lightweight element is a lynchpin in the quest for electrifying a more sustainable world. Lithium batteries are increasingly used to harness renewable energy, power the cars we drive, and “fuel” the high-tech digital gadgets ubiquitous in our daily lives.
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One Year of Progress Building NASA’s Mobile Launcher 2
We live for a challenge. It’s what drove us to support NASA during the Apollo program, and again today as we mark one year of construction on Mobile Launcher 2 (ML2) at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. This critical piece of infrastructure will quite literally help launch a new era in space exploration.
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What’s New About America’s Next Nuclear Power Plant? Everything
Groundbreakings are always special. But even more so when the groundbreaking is truly breaking new ground for our society and environment. That’s exactly what we did today at the site of the Natrium Demonstration Plant in Kemmerer, Wyoming. Not just for a single new project, but an entire new industry.
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Confronting Suicide in the Construction Community
Among job occupations in the United States, construction has one of the highest rates of suicide. The time has come for us to treat mental health – and suicide prevention specifically – with the same determined focus that we have successfully brought to physical health, and as a natural extension of our historic commitment to safety.
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Sparking the Electric Vehicle Revolution
There’s one big speedbump on the road to sparking the electric vehicle revolution: the slow pace of new EV chargers for the public and for vehicle fleets. The electrification specialists at Bechtel recommend a few approaches to speeding up the delivery of new charging infrastructure.
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Brendan Bechtel on Rebuilding America’s Leadership in Nuclear Power
The U.S. is once again building and innovating in nuclear power. This week, the second of two new nuclear units went into service in Georgia. It is hard to overstate the significance of these milestones. Rebuilding our country’s nuclear power industry is vital to our fight against climate change, our growing need for more electricity, and our national security.
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Sustainability and Innovation: How to Harvest Heat
In this three-part series, Bechtel's Heloisa Schmidt, manager, Corporate Sustainability, and Mellissa Case, sustainable development manager, Mining and Metals, share their on-the-ground experiences in Peru talking to Bechtel colleagues, partners, and community members. In this first installment, learn about the innovative partnership that is helping to protect indigenous families from extreme frost in the remote Andes.
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Accelerating Semiconductor Fab Construction
Bechtel looks to offsite manufacturing, construction workforce development, supply chain buying power, and innovative construction sequencing to accelerate the design and build of new semiconductor fabs.
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Is Faster Still Better?
GHG emissions analysis challenges conventional approach to designing overland conveyors.
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Desalination Plants for the Mining Industry: Promoting Efficient Water Usage
While the mining sector in Chile represents only 1.3 percent of the total water consumption at the national level, water remains a scarce and finite resource. Learn about how Bechtel has been involved in building three of Chile’s largest desalination plants supplying industrial water to production facilities and drinking water to populations without access.
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Sumaq Wasi Housing: Beating the Cold
In this three-part series, Bechtel's Heloisa Schmidt, manager, Corporate Sustainability, and Mellissa Case, sustainable development manager, Mining and Metals, share their on-the-ground experiences in Peru talking to Bechtel colleagues, partners, and community members. In this first installment, learn about the innovative partnership that is helping to protect indigenous families from extreme frost in the remote Andes.
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Engineering Sustainable Battery Factories
Bechtel experts say early alignment on sustainability goals “is essential” when building EV battery and battery materials facilities.