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Bechtel uses Six Sigma to drive performance at Ivanpah Solar Facility
Building the world's largest concentrating solar facility requires nothing less than innovation at every step. This article shares how Bechtel used Six Sigma on the Ivanpah project as our chosen methodology for improving quality and performance.
Source: POWER Engineering Magazine
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Destroying U.S. chemical weapons is an ongoing, decades-long process
In Kentucky and Colorado, Bechtel-led teams are building facilities that will safely eliminate chemical weapons stockpiles in the United States. Learn more about our work there in this Bloomberg Businessweek story.
Source: Bloomberg Businessweek
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California turns to Mojave Desert for new era of green energy
CBS features the massive Ivanpah solar-energy project, for which Bechtel is providing engineering, procurement, construction, and startup services.
Source: CBS Evening News
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Bechtel joining in Gulf metals and mining boom
Bechtel is setting up a Dubai office, as the company's Mining and Metals business unit sees growing opportunities for the sector in the Arabian Gulf.
Source: The National
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The risky business of destroying chemical weapons
Bechtel’s Doug Omichinski, a project manager who works at sites that dismantle U.S. chemical weapon stockpiles, explains it can take decades—and lots of robots—to get the job done.
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Leaders seek to end Brazilians' Love Affair with the Cal
Brazil looks ready to press ahead with many different technologies as it seeks to upgrade its public transport. Amjad Bangash, director of rail projects for...Bechtel, ...says different public transport systems are needed for different situations.
Source: Financial Times
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A beacon of hope for Sirohi
Bechtel’s New Delhi office teams with nongovernmental organizations and other groups to bring much-need lighting to Sirohi, a village about 40 kilometers outside Delhi.
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Letting sustainability savings fly
At London Gatwick, Bechtel has helped assess capital investments based on long-term lifecycle costs, taking into account savings gained by reduced energy expenditure and other benefits of sustainable design initiatives.
Source: Airport World (with permission) PDF
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Let there be light
Volunteers from Bechtel’s New Delhi office help light up the village of Sirohi, whose citizens have suffered for want of sufficient electric light and whose social, commercial, and educational activities largely halt with each setting of the sun.
Source: The Hindu
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Tower of power
With the California desert as its testing ground, Ivanpah, set to be the biggest solar-thermal plant in the world, is out to prove that renewable energy can work on a massive scale.
Source: Time.com
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The Power—and beauty—of solar energy
A pictoral of the 370 (net) megawatt solar thermal electric generating system in the Mojave Desert, California.
Source: Time.com
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What is the worth of 1 Btu/kWh of heat rate?
In this technical article, Bechtel's S.C. Güilen, PhD, PE, examines decisions about design and operational options determined by one metrick: the impact on the cost of electricity produce.
Source: Powermag.com