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Bechtel to oversee BART’s Silicon Valley Phase 2 extension

The Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) has picked Bechtel to provide construction management services for the Bay Area Rapid Transit’s (BART) Silicon Valley Phase II, a six-mile extension with…

Bechtel builds Texas solar farm in 13 months thanks to high-tech tactics

Bechtel credits a comprehensive digital approach for allowing it to finish building a 218MW solar power station in Texas ahead of its 13-month deadline. Set on 1,100 acres in Fort…

Bechtel pledges $7m for suicide prevention

American engineer Bechtel will donate $7m to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP), to be spent on support for 500,000 construction workers over the next five years. The company…

Intel delays $20bn Ohio chip factory, citing slowing market

US chipmaker Intel has delayed construction of a $20bn manufacturing facility in Ohio, according to the Wall Street Journal. Work has begun on the development, which Intel says it its…

Westinghouse, Bechtel seal deal on Poland’s first nuclear station

Westinghouse and Bechtel have signed a formal agreement to partner on the design and construction of Poland’s first nuclear power plant at Lubiatowo-Kopalino. Westinghouse said Poland would get its first…

The new launcher must withstand extreme conditions including temperatures of around 1,200°C (Courtesy of Bechtel)

Bechtel starts building rocket launcher at Cape Canaveral

Bechtel yesterday started building the Mobile Launcher 2 project at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida for Nasa’s Artemis mission to send astronauts to the Moon and Mars. It…

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Funding finalised for Bechtel’s $18.4bn Texas LNG project

Funding for the first three trains of the Rio Grande LNG plant in Brownsville, southern Texas, has been confirmed. NextDecade’s facility will have a liquefaction capacity of 27 million tonnes…

Kevin Hartke, Chandler’s mayor and Catherine Hunt Ryan, president of Bechtel Manufacturing and Technology

Bechtel opens second Arizona office for high-tech boom

Bechtel has opened a new office in Arizona to tap into the booming semiconductor, batteries, and battery materials markets. The 8,000-sq-ft office in Chandler, near Phoenix, opened 27 June at…

Workers load the last rocket containing GB nerve agent to be destroyed onto a loading rack in the Blue Grass plant (Courtesy of Bechtel)

Bechtel destroys US’ last chemical weapon

Bechtel has destroyed the final munition in the US stockpile of chemical weapons at the Blue Grass Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant in Kentucky. That completes the US’ commitment to destroy…

The Ukrainian city of Kherson the day after the destruction of the Kakhovka Dam on 6 June 2023 (The news agency of Ministry of Defense of Ukraine/armyinform.com.ua/CC BY 4.0)

Bechtel and Ukraine sign reconstruction agreement

Bechtel has signed a memorandum of understanding with Ukraine’s State Agency for Restoration and Development of Infrastructure, the organisation responsible for Ukraine’s reconstruction. The two parties agreed last week at…

Bechtel to build charging stations for major school bus operator

Bechtel will build electric charging infrastructure for North America’s biggest school bus operator, First Student.

Bechtel and Enka chosen for North Macedonia’s biggest ever infrastructure scheme

The government of North Macedonia has picked a joint venture between US engineer Bechtel and Turkish contractor Enka to build two motorways with a total length of 110km.

The United States’ new ambassador to the Czech Republic attended the forum (Courtesy of Bechtel)

Westinghouse-Bechtel meet 55 Czech companies in nuclear bid

A Westinghouse-Bechtel team this week met with 55 Czech companies to discuss the engineers’ bid to build nuclear reactors in the Czech Republic. The Westinghouse-Bechtel team is one of three…

Cutlass Solar Farm (Bechtel)

Bechtel’s Texas solar farm to generate power for 20,000 homes

US engineer Bechtel has completed work on the Cutlass Solar project, a photovoltaic farm capable of providing 20,000 homes with zero-carbon electricity in Fort Bend, southwest Texas. The development will…

A farmer harvests maize in Zambia. The staple crop is grown widely there but a lack of infrastructure means much is wasted (FraWanMalE/CC BY-SA 4.0)

Bechtel to build warehouses in Zambia to get homegrown maize to market

Bechtel’s social enterprise, bechtel.org, has teamed up with development agency USAID to build distribution centres in Zambia to prevent the wastage of maize, a staple food crop. Zambia is among…

Trojena courtesy of Bechtel

Bechtel win management contract for Saudi Arabian ski resort

US engineer Bechtel will work as project management consultant on the mountainous Trojena resort project, which will be part of Saudi Arabia’s ambitious Neom development and the site of the…

Creating 7,000 construction jobs, it will be the largest single private investment in Ohio’s history (Render of the New Albany campus courstey of Intel)

Bechtel lands role on Intel’s $20bn chip factory scheme in Ohio

Bechtel has won a contract on Intel’s biggest construction project, ever – building two new chip factories in New Albany, Ohio at a cost of $20bn.

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