Bechtel in the News
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Rigging engineer raises profile of critical industry profession
“When you are lifting and moving stuff, you are dealing with considerable risk,” explains J. Keith Anderson, Bechtel’s chief rigging engineer. “Training for people who are going to plan and execute this type of work is really haphazard.”
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Always boring, never dull: Britain at cutting edge of tunnelling boom
On June 4, 2015, the final inches of Crossrail’s train tunnels were dug by Victoria, one of eight 1,000-tonne tunnel boring machines which spent the past three years reshaping London’s underground pathways. But the completion of that massive, 26-mile dig is far from the end of a tunnelling boom in the capital and beyond.
© image courtesy of Crossrail
Source: The Guardian -
Royal Commission renews deal with Bechtel
Royal Commission renews deal with Bechtel
Source: Saudi Gazette -
10 years later, did the Big Dig deliver?
To everything there is a season, and a 10th anniversary — in Big Dig lore, the 2006 opening of the Albany Street ramps marked its completion — is a time for taking stock.
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Construction Industry Leaders: Full Tilt Into the Future
If you’ve seen Back to the Future, you might remember that the mid-1980s movie franchise pegged 2015 as “the future”. Here we are. Obviously things didn’t pan out quite like Hollywood imagined. Not only are cars still rolling on four wheels, we rely on roads, bridges and every other form of infrastructure more than ever.
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Congressional negotiators agree to 5-year, $305B highway bill
Congressional negotiators from the Senate and House have agreed to a $305 billion, five-year highway bill. This newly agreed-upon bill knocks one year and $20 billion off the House’s measure, but it still should send a signal to the industry that stability is waiting in the wings. In addition, the nation's infrastructure needs a reliable flow of funds. In fact, in a recent USA Today editorial, Brendan Bechtel, president of the Bechtel Group, implored federal and state officials to prioritize the nation’s "crumbling" infrastructure.
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Emergency, emergency, this is America’s infrastructure calling
Now's the time to replace crumbling bridges and roads with stronger, smarter alternatives. Bechtel President serves a wake-up call for America's infrastructure.
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Bechtel hands over to BG Group
Construction and commissioning on QCLNG is all done and dusted and it's time for BG Group to start making some money.The British multinational oil and gas company took 100% control today.It took control of train one of the gas plant back in May, and yesterday Bechtel handed over a completed train two, along with the rest of the QCLNG facilities.
Source: The Observer (Gladstone) -
Prince Philip visits Crossrail site
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh is shown around the new Crossrail station taking shape 30 metres below Farringdon in London, where he met some of the apprentices, construction workers and engineers delivering the station on November 4, 2015 in London, United Kingdom.
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Bechtel Enka opens first section of Pristina-Skopje motorway
The first part of the €600 million Arber Dzaferi motorway between Pristina, the capital of Kosovo and Skopje in Macedonia, has opened to traffic. US-Turkish consortium Bechtel Enka is contractor for the 60km road that will eventually link Pristina, capital of the former Serbian province Kosovo, and the city of Skopje, capital of Macedonia, a former Yugoslav republic.
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Bechtel engineer shares advice on microgrid design
Microgrids are still at the point where the benefits and potential pitfalls need to be weighed, Henrik Johansen, assistant chief engineer at Bechtel Infrastructure & Power told us recently in an exclusive interview. These grids are typically smaller than 10 MWs.
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How super low natural gas prices are reshaping how we get our power
Oil isn’t the only fossil fuel that is selling at quite cheap levels at the moment in the United States. U.S. natural gas prices plunged briefly below $ 2 per million Btu (British thermal units), lower than they have been since early 2012.
Source: Washington Post