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Infrastructure[edit]

The Infrastructure unit handles transportation, fossil and renewable power, transmission and communications.[1] Infrastructure projects include highways and bridges, rail, ports, and aviation projects, as well as hydroelectric facilities.[2] Bechtel has built more than 17,200 miles of roadway, 390 individual power plants, 50 hydroelectric plants,[3] as well as 20 towns and cities globally.[4] It has worked on 300 subway and rail projects, 80 port and harbor projects, and 96 major airport projects.[5][3]

Bechtel's Infrastructure unit is leading a consortium in the engineering, procurement and construction of the lines One and Two of the Riyadh, Saudi Arabia metro, which began construction in April 2014.[6][7] Bechtel is also participating in the building of London's Crossrail, a $24 billion project that will connect commuter towns east and west of London and is intended to serve an estimated 200 million people a year upon completion.[8][9] As of June 2015, the project is 65% complete.[10]

Since 2015, it has been overseeing the project management of the Spadina subway extension for the Toronto Transit Commission.[11] In 2016, Bechtel began construction on the first stage of the Edmonton Valley Line Light Rail Transit project in Alberta, Canada, the first under P3 (private-public partnership) business group.[12]

The unit is involved in several ongoing projects as of 2016, including building national infrastructure in Gabon[13] and the continuous development of Jubail in Saudi Arabia.[14] It is also building projects for Google Fiber in several markets in the Southeastern U.S.[15][16][17]

Power projects in 2016 include natural gas-fired combined cycle facilities for Panda Power Funds: the Panda Hummel Station Power Plant in Pennsylvania and the Stonewall Energy Center in Virginia.[18][19] For Advanced Power, Bechtel is working on three combined cycle plants, South Field Energy and Carroll County Energy in Ohio,[20] and Cricket Valley Energy in New York.[21] It is also building the Keeyask Generating Station, a hydroelectric power plant for Manitoba Hydro in Manitoba, Canada.[22]

Among recently completed projects, Bechtel finalized Phase I of an extension of the Dulles Corridor Metrorail in Northern Virginia[23][24] and completed the Hamad International Airport in Doha, Qatar in 2014.[25][26] It completed a 77.4 km four-lane motorway in Kosovo, which was finished a year ahead of schedule in November 2013,[27] and was selected to build a new 37-mile motorway linking Kosovo's capital, Pristina, to Macedonia.[28]

Bechtel's completed renewable projects include the world's largest solar thermal project, the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System in California, which began producing power in February 2014 and has the capacity to double solar thermal power production in the United States.[29][30] The unit also completed the Catalina Solar photovoltaic generating facility and the construction of the California Valley Solar Ranch in 2013.[31][32]

In August 2013, the unit completed the Hanna Region Transmission Development, a power transmission project in Canada, which included 1,200 new transmission towers and 219 miles of transmission lines.[33]

  1. ^ "Bechtel reorganizes company into new nuclear, global business units". Power Engingeering. October 7, 2014. Retrieved 23 July 2015.
  2. ^ "People". Engineering News-Record. June 25, 2008. Retrieved January 27, 2014.
  3. ^ a b "Annual Report". Bechtel. 2016. Retrieved 21 July 2016.
  4. ^ Davis, Aaron (March 28, 2003). "Bechtel Target of Anti-War Protesters". Knight Ridder. Retrieved 20 March 2014.
  5. ^ "Khalifa Port bears Bechtel stamp". Gulf Industry. October 2012. Retrieved 20 March 2014.
  6. ^ "Bechtel busy on eight-month Riyadh Metro design". Construction Week Online. February 7, 2014. Retrieved 9 April 2014.
  7. ^ "Construction work on $22.5bn Riyadh metro begins". Construction Week Online. April 6, 2014. Retrieved 9 April 2014.
  8. ^ Reina, Peter (January 20, 2014). "At Halfway Mark, $24-Billion U.K. Crossrail Project Back on Track". Engineering News-Record. Retrieved 19 March 2014.
  9. ^ William Lyons (November 5, 2010). "Bechtel's Adams Explains the Virtues of Engineering". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 9 April 2014.
  10. ^ "PM meets the team who tunnelled crossrail". Construction Manager. 5 June 2015. Retrieved 24 July 2015.
  11. ^ Sean Wetselaar (13 April 2015). "Bechtel awarded contract to manage completion of Spadina subway extension". Toronto Star. Retrieved 15 September 2015.
  12. ^ Kim Slowey (27 April 2016). "Bechtel-led team kicks off construction on $1.8B Canadian P3 light rail". Construction Dive. Retrieved 27 July 2016.
  13. ^ Zandile Mavuso (15 July 2016). "Company strengthens ties with African country". Engingeering News]. Retrieved 23 July 2016.
  14. ^ Slowey, Kim (June 7, 2016). "Bechtel signs 5-year extension for world's largest industrial development project". Construction Dive. Retrieved 23 July 2016.
  15. ^ Sam Hardiman (23 June 2015). "Google starts construction on Charlotte 'Fiber' network". Retrieved 14 September 2015.
  16. ^ Jamie McGee (9 June 2015). "Google Fiber construction to begin in Nashville". The Tennessean. Retrieved 14 September 2015.
  17. ^ Jeff Moore (26 June 2015). "Google uses Bechtel to deploy fiber in Atlanta, Charlotte and Raleigh-Durham". Fierce Installer. Retrieved 14 September 2015.
  18. ^ "Panda Hummel Station Power Plant, Pennsylvania, United States of America". Power-technology.com. Retrieved 23 July 2016.
  19. ^ Thomas Heath (7 August 2015). "Bechtel breaks ground on advanced electrical generating plant in Va". The Washington Post. Retrieved 15 September 2015.
  20. ^ Edd Pritchard (8 October 2015). "Advanced Power to build $1 billion power plant in Columbiana County". The Repository. Retrieved 23 July 2016.
  21. ^ Joe Quirke (15 October 2015). "Bechtel to deliver 1GW gas power station in New York State". Global Construction Review. Retrieved 23 July 2016.
  22. ^ Michael Harris (March 25, 2014). "Manitoba Hydro selects consortium to construct 695-MW Keeyask hydropower plant". HydroWorld. Retrieved 8 April 2014.
  23. ^ Dickinson, Virgil (October 1, 2013). "Newsmaker: Charlene Wheeless, Bechtel". PRWeek. Retrieved January 27, 2014.
  24. ^ Paul Duggan (23 June 2014). "The Silver Line story: A new route is born after decades of faulty planning, political paralysis". The Washington Post. Retrieved 15 September 2015.
  25. ^ Fahy, Michael (September 22, 2013). "Doha's Hamad airport 'virtually complete'". ConstructionWeekOnline. Retrieved 19 March 2014.
  26. ^ Kim Kemp (24 April 2015). "CWQ 2015 Leaders summit hailed as a success". ConstructionWeekOnline. Retrieved 15 September 2015.
  27. ^ Wright, Helen (November 26, 2013). "Kosovo motorway opens ahead of schedule". Construction Europe. Retrieved 19 March 2014.
  28. ^ Joe Quirke (4 July 2014). "Bechtel to build Kosovo to Macedonia motorway". Global Construction Review. Retrieved 23 July 2015.
  29. ^ "Feature:Alasdair Cathcart". World Generation Magazine. January–February 2011. Retrieved 20 March 2014.
  30. ^ Trabish, Herman K. (February 13, 2014). "Ivanpah: World's Biggest Solar Power Tower Project Goes On-Line". GreenTech Media. Retrieved 20 March 2014.
  31. ^ "Bechtel Completes 143 MW Catalina Utility-Scale Solar Power Project". Solar Industry Magazine. August 23, 2013. Retrieved 20 March 2014.
  32. ^ Wang, Ucilia (October 31, 2013). "The Rise Of A Giant Solar Power Plant In California's Central Plain". Forbes. Retrieved 22 September 2015.
  33. ^ "Bechtel Completes Major Power Transmission Project in Canada". Transmission & Distribution World. August 7, 2013. Retrieved 20 March 2014.
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