Welcome to the Bechtel blog, where we share ideas on sustainability and innovation.
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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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.
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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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.
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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.
BechTech Podcast: Cracking the code with John Minichiello
In this episode of the BechTech Podcast, John Minichiello, a codes and standards subject matter expert, discusses his nearly 50 years developing technical processes and how he works with customers to deliver solutions.
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BechTech Podcast: Understanding process engineering with Freeman Self
In this episode of the BechTech Podcast, Freeman Self, principal process engineer at Bechtel, discusses his over 35 years of experience in process and process safety engineering and shares how his military career has influenced and helped deliver many successful projects globally to our customers and partners.
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BechTech Podcast: Mineral processing and technology with Dave Meadows
In this episode of the BechTech Podcast, Dave Meadows, discusses his over 35 years of experience in mineral processing technology and how an early interest in geology shaped his career.
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BechTech Podcast: On the right track with Dr. Siv Bhamra
In this episode of the BechTech Podcast, Dr. Siv Bhamra discusses his 30-year career in rail and shares insights into new technologies that will improve the way people travel.
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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STEM Returners Filling Key Roles, Bring a Unique Perspective
The STEM Returners program, which Bechtel has supported since 2021, provides opportunities for experienced candidates to resume their professional lives following a career break.
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One Team, One Dream – How an Inspirational Project United Bechtel Colleagues with an Entire Rwandan village
In June 2023, fifteen Bechtel volunteers travelled to Nyanza, Rwanda to build a 140-metre suspension bridge in partnership with Bridges to Prosperity, a nonprofit organization that connects rural communities through trail bridges.
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B-BOLD Celebrates Juneteenth with Virtual Museum Tour
On June 19, many of our colleagues celebrated Juneteenth, which marks the day in 1865 when Major General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas, and freed the last remaining slaves, three months after the end of the Civil War and two and a half years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation.