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Bechtel speaks at the US Government's National Action Plan consultation meeting
On April 16, 2015, Tam Nguyen, head of global sustainability at Bechtel spoke at the US Government’s fourth and largest public consultation on the White House National Action Plan on Responsible Business Conduct. The National Action Plan, announced by President Obama in September 2014, will promote responsible business conduct abroad, consistent with widely-recognized international principles.
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Bechtel in Saudi Arabia: A Home Away From Home
Bechtel is involved in some of the largest projects ever undertaken in Saudi Arabia. Mark Lazell speaks to David Welch, the US corporation's president for Europe, Africa and the Middle East, about why the kingdom remains so strategically important to the business.
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Gas turbines fired at Santos GLNG
The Santos-owned GLNG site on Curtis Island will soon be fully self-powered with two of the six new gas turbine generators successfully fired.
Source: PACE Magazine -
Bechtel: Promising results from Hanford vit plant mixing test
Hanford officials have seen encouraging results in half-scale tests of a system designed to keep high-level radioactive waste well-mixed within certain tanks in the vitrification plant, according to Bechtel National.
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Resilience Inside and Outside the Nuclear Plant
Yesterday, a group of folks got together to talk about sustainability and resilience, especially in energy infrastructure and especially as a means of developing urban centers responsibly. It may seem that nuclear energy has only a tangential role here: it provides emission-free electricity to cities that want to be as emission-free as possible. But there’s more to it than that.
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Future-proofing the U.S.'s Energy Infrastructure
With the Department of Energy's Quadrennial Energy Review on the country's energy infrastructure expected to be released this month, how can the private sector work toward future-proofing the nation's power infrastructure? During today's OnPoint, Amos Avidan, senior vice president and corporate manager of engineering and technology at Bechtel, discusses the financial and policy challenges to improving the resilience of the U.S. energy infrastructure.
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Partnerships, Volunteerism, Philanthropy: Companies With STEM Talent Support Education
Bechtel is enhancing education in STEM subjects through partnerships, volunteerism and philanthropy.
Source: US News & World Report -
Bechtel National Inc.: Resuming engineering work is a major step forward
Chief among the many accomplishments in 2014 at the Hanford Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant, also known as the vit plant, was resuming design work at the High-Level Waste (HLW) Vitrification Facility.
Source: Tri-City Herald -
Progress made on Hanford vit plant melters
Bechtel National workers have finished placing refractory in the two 300-ton melters at the Hanford vitrification plant’s Low Activity Waste Facility.
Source: Tri-City Herald -
Breakwaters: Smarter, deeper, faster
Bechtel's Marco Pluijm discusses how to reduce the cost of the breakwater in any port project by adopting a 'smart ports' approach.
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Driven by diversity: Bechtel's global rail boss Ailie MacAdam
Having played a leading role on some of the UK’s biggest civil engineering projects, Ailie MacAdam is perhaps an unlikely advocate of the notion that industry should do more to attract and retain female engineers.
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MOD offers managed service provider contracts
Bechtel will work alongside existing Defence, Equipment and Support (DE&S) staff to help change the way they manage the buying and support of defence equipment, and helps deliver the Ministry of Defence's (MOD’s) 10-year £164 billion equipment plan. Image: © Crown copyright 2015
Source: UK Ministry of Defence