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Massive Shield Door Installed At WTP

19 May 2010

Bechtel’s construction team successfully completed the precision installation of a massive 50-ton (45-metric-ton) shield door at the Waste Treatment Plant (WTP) site in Hanford, Washington. The shield door is in a key area of WTP’s High-Level Waste Vitrification Facility and was installed to extremely tight tolerances, down to five-thousandths of an inch (0.13 millimeters), or less than the diameter of a human hair. The new door is one of six that Bechtel will install at WTP.

Bechtel Named Top U.s. Contractor For 12th Straight Year

12 May 2010

Bechtel Corporation has been named the top U.S. contractor in 2010 by Engineering News-Record (ENR), a leading U.S. trade publication for the construction industry. This marks the 12^th consecutive year that Bechtel has ranked first.  

Bechtel Announces Agreed Sale Of Tube Lines’ Equity To Transport For London

06 May 2010

Bechtel, a leading engineering, construction and project management firm, today announces that it has entered into an agreement to sell its one-third interest in Tube Lines to Transport for London (“TfL”) for £103 million. Amey will also sell its two-thirds interest to TfL.