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Approach
Leveraging over a century of experience, we implement a comprehensive integration strategy — both horizontal and vertical — to deliver optimized EPC solutions that enhance speed, schedules, and performance, while driving continuous improvement across the EPC value chain.
Throughout our history, Bechtel has continuously evolved — innovating, adapting, and setting standards of excellence as we apply our unique capabilities to deliver our customers’ most critical and complex projects.
More than ever before, we are integrating services across our diverse business lines to deliver comprehensive and innovative solutions tailored specifically to our customers’ needs. By collaborating early in project development, we explore all technical, commercial, and financial options to identify the best solutions, reduce complexities, and streamline delivery.
We meet customers where they are, offering solutions that range from enhancing existing operations to reimagining approaches to their challenges. By leveraging vertically integrated work streams, proprietary digital tools, data, and in-house supply chains, we provide unique options to ensure certainty of outcome. Additionally, we are capturing opportunities to reduce cycle times on repeatable work, amplifying incremental improvements and boosting overall productivity.
Together, with our proven processes and project management strategies, we create value not only in cost and schedule but also in delivering projects that perform as promised — or better — once customers begin operations.
Bechtel’s engineering services are the foundation of our project success, delivering innovative, technology-driven solutions to tackle our customers’ toughest challenges. With industry-leading expertise and a commitment to continuous learning, our engineers design with supply chain, construction, and operations in mind — ensuring projects are delivered efficiently and with unmatched quality. Programs like Bechtel Fellows and Distinguished Technical Specialists enable our teams to collaborate across markets and push the boundaries of technical excellence.
Innovation and technology are at the core of what we do. From advanced 3D, 4D, and 5D modeling to data-centric execution and cloud-based systems, our engineers leverage cutting-edge tools to streamline schedules, reduce costs, and maximize productivity. By working collaboratively in virtual environments across the globe, Bechtel ensures our customers receive solutions that often set new industry standards.
The Riyadh Metro project — the largest metro project in the world to be built in a single phase — is pushing the limits of what’s possible, setting new standards in scale, innovation, and precision. At peak construction, over 28,000 professionals worked onsite, moving massive quantities of materials, including enough earthworks to build the Great Pyramid of Giza more than seven times over. Our engineers in Bechtel design centers worldwide — including Taiwan, Dubai, and New Delhi — helped produce over 98,000 design drawings and 100 mock-ups. The system’s doors alone required more than 10,000 unique designs, complete with customized signage and specifications. Operators received more than 120,000 as-built drawings and documentation from tens of thousands of lab tests, verifying compliance with nearly 700 material criteria.
Our global supply chain is resilient and adaptable, allowing us to consistently deliver on safety, quality, cost, schedule, and sustainability, no matter what global challenges arise.
Our supply chain is complex and geographically vast, represented by thousands of supplier and contractor partnerships. We work with over 7,000 suppliers in 70 countries, handling more than 50,000 transactions annually. We also work with many local and small businesses, strengthening local communities.
We support Bechtel’s business priorities and its projects through this network of global suppliers, supported by local and regionally positioned Supply Chain professionals of diverse experience and capability. Our supply chain is anchored on a platform of best-in-class processes and tools. We deliver on our vision of being industry’s choice in providing supply chain services.
Access to high-quality materials like fabricated steel is essential for completing projects on time and within budget. To secure this critical material, Bechtel and Unger Steel have formed Unger Steel Fabrication FZE, a joint venture of which Bechtel is a part owner. This venture supplies premium steel to Bechtel projects worldwide.
Through our joint venture with Çimtaş Group, we deliver a vertically integrated piping supply chain that optimizes risk management, scheduling, and cost efficiency. With over 52 years of experience and five fabrication shops across Turkey and China, Çimtaş provides comprehensive engineering, procurement, and fabrication services for the construction, power, oil, gas, and chemicals industries.
As a global leader in construction management, we have the people, processes, and tools to successfully execute the largest and most logistically complex projects, while maintaining industry-leading safety and quality standards.
We’ve developed the competence and capacity to self-perform every phase of project delivery. Our self-perform EPC model maximizes value and minimizes risk for our customers by offering a single point of accountability. This approach allows us to optimize designs and implement proprietary processes, ensuring greater certainty in outcomes. Additionally, we take great pride in our century-long partnership with the North America Building Trades Unions, as well as the outstanding projects and training advancements we’ve pioneered together.
We are committed to workforce development and community engagement. On the Kosovo Motorway project in Serbia, 70% of our workforce was made up of local residents, and we worked with 80 local contractors and hundreds of local suppliers. Over the course of the project, more than 10,000 residents received onsite training, equipping them with new skills to further their careers.
Megaprojects often come with immense complexity, but with over a century of experience in engineering, construction, and procurement, we know how to navigate these challenges.
Our deep expertise spans every phase of project delivery, and our long-standing relationships with trusted suppliers and our ability to manage thousands of contracts simultaneously ensures that we not only meet, but exceed our customers’ goals. This, after all, is at the heart of what we do.
On Teck’s Quebrada Blanca copper mine project (QB2), we played a key role in extending the life and boosting the output of one of the world’s largest undeveloped copper resources. The expansion included a 143,000-tonne-per-day copper concentrator, a high-capacity desalination plant, and a 103-mile (165-kilometer) water supply pipeline. QB2’s construction was a massive undertaking, involving the erection of 20,000 tonnes of steel and the movement of 31.2 million cubic meters of material, underscoring the scale and complexity of the project. Notably, QB2 is the first mining operation in the Tarapacá Region to use desalinated water for large-scale mining, with 100% of its production process dependent on this sustainable water source.
Throughout the project, we remained steadfast in our commitment to excellence and safety. More than 30,000 individuals contributed to the construction effort, logging 140 million work hours, over 60 million of which were completed without lost-time incidents. In recognition of our outstanding safety and environmental performance, we were honored with the ESH Excellence Award in 2022.
Alongside our core services, we incorporate functional centers of excellence throughout every aspect of our operations, supported by a broad range of customized solutions that drive project success. This approach ensures projects are completed faster, deliver greater value, and achieve superior performance.
Our team of infrastructure planners provides real life lessons learned on some of the world’s largest and most complex projects, giving them unparalleled insight into this critical early-stage work. Working with customers at every step — from the birth of an idea to physical execution and operations — delivers a program that goes beyond master planning and ensures a high certainty of outcome.
Our experts are skilled in areas such as systems engineering, process controls and instrumentation, high-voltage electrical generation and transmission, water chemistry and wastewater treatment process operations, and systems integration. We perform plant operability reviews, test-program development, facility startup and commissioning, procedure development, operations and maintenance training, turnkey commissioning, facility operations, facility outage support, facility inspections, and process safety management.
The keys to our successful site operations and management approach are partnership, integration, and communication. Successful partnering ensures that all parties understand each other’s interests, objectives, concerns, responsibilities, and expectations. We incorporate the interests of all stakeholders to arrive at the best solution for performing work efficiently and cost-effectively. Good communication is vital to ensure that all stakeholders and project personnel are acting on the same information.
Our teams can manage the complexities and interface risks inherent to large desalination projects and associated infrastructure. We consider all available technologies in the market, evaluating the impact on operations, power consumption, uptime, maintenance, repair, and replacement to ensure our approach is cost-efficient and reliable according to the owner’s needs.
Our teams have extensive experience and proven processes for conducting site works on the world’s largest and most complex public infrastructure and industrial projects, in locations ranging from the remote wilderness to densely occupied urban centers. Our work includes site clearing, surveying, soil testing, grouting, piling, excavation and backfill, site grading, drainage design, framework and concrete works, roadway design and construction, and underground pipe and cable installation. We also bring proven expertise in integrating site works with site construction to minimize interfaces and optimize cost and schedule.
The energy transition is one of the biggest, most complex shifts in human history. Bechtel is working with customers to develop and deploy the myriad resources, fuels, technologies, and infrastructure needed to allow the world to adopt less carbon-intense ways of producing, distributing, and using energy.
Our teams utilize several proprietary digital — such as data-driven automation, survey robots, machine-controlled equipment, and drones — tools that improve operational efficiency and enhance collaboration, communication, and integration among all Bechtel engineering, procurement, and construction systems. For example, our first-of-its-kind digital execution hub enables 100% digital delivery and gathers data directly from equipment in the field and feeds it into an interactive map-based visualization.
Whether you’re seeking a partner for a project, have a media inquiry, or are interested in a job opportunity, you can reach out to our Bechtel colleagues around the world for direct support. Our team is ready to assist and provide the expertise you need.