Bechtel volunteers in India are working with the Engineers Without Borders- India to utilize solar energy in a project that intends to provide electricity to 3,500 citizens in a village just outside New Delhi. The lighting project is funded by Bechtel to provide solar-powered LED fixtures and related infrastructure in …

Bechtel and a non-profit organization will co-launch a new initiative that aims to help a central African nation encourage economic development. The program to be implemented in Gabon will involve volunteers from the company and Junior Achievement who will work together to educate about 300 young participants on entrepreneurship and …

Bechtel has completed construction work on an electrical transmission line and related infrastructure for the Hanna region of Alberta, Canada. The project involved 219 miles of power lines, six new substations, more than 1,200 transmission towers and 12 upgraded substations, Bechtel said Monday. Project team members used a mobile application …

The Los Alamos National Laboratory, managed and operated by Bechtel and the University of California, has shipped 1,074 cubic meters of radioactively contaminated transuranic waste with three months left of fiscal 2013. That figure tops its record of 916 cubic meters TRU waste to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in …

Bechtel will develop equipment and marine infrastructure  proposals for a planned liquefied natural gas manufacturing plant in Canada. Pacific NorthWest LNG intends for Bechtel’s front-end engineering and design services to help facilitate exports of liquefied natural gas, Bechtel said Thursday. The facility is planned in an area at the District of Port …

Bechtel has won a contract to install three new steam generators for a nuclear power plant that supplies power to nearly one million homes. The company will start engineering the generators in late 2016 and start installing the systems in March 2017 for the Pennsylvania-based Beaver Valley Nuclear Power Station, …

Greg Frank serves as the general manager of Bechtel‘s defense and security business line. In this role, he oversees a portfolio of complex government projects in the areas of chemical demilitarization, missile defense, Defense Department base operations and global nonproliferation. He also has responsibility for project performance and customer satisfaction and shares in the accountability …

Bechtel has announced that it will sponsor five high school teams from the U.S. and Canada for the 2013 FIRST Robotics Competition World Championship in St. Louis, MO. During the three-day event starting April 25, the Bechtel-sponsored students will be among 400 teams worldwide competing in the science, technology, engineering …

Rich Tighe is currently a vice president with Bechtel National, Inc., the $6.5 billion global business unit within Bechtel serving U.S. government customers. He is the manager of business development for the defense & security business line within BNI, reporting to the general manager for defense & security, and responsible for the DoD, NASA, DHS, …

Bechtel has joined a group of investors working with Planetary Resources to develop robotic exploration technologies intended to mine asteroids for precious materials. Planetary Resources plans to initially use its Arkyd-100 space telescope missions to conduct robotic space exploration and identify commercially viable raw materials from near-Earth asteroids, Bechtel said …

Siemens and Bechtel will jointly build the third Panda power plant in Texas as the companies are aiming to advance the natural gas market in the U.S. The companies are aiming to combine Siemens’ natural gas and steam turbines and waste heat recovery boilers with Bechtel's engineering, procurement, and construction …

Bechtel plans to bid for work on a $17.9 billion project to build a high-speed rail network in Brazil, BNamericas.com reported Tuesday. Daniel Bland writes national logistics and planning agency EPL will supervise the railway project, which will involve 317.5 miles of track. Proposals are due by Aug. 13 and …

John Olson, a Bechtel deputy technical manager at a waste treatment and immobilization plant, has won the Tri-Cities Engineer of the Year award for helping to engineer the plant. Olson was also recognized for participating in the American Institute of Chemical Engineers locally and nationally, Bechtel said Wednesday. The Tri-Cities …

Bechtel has won a contract to design and build an electricity transmission system off the coast of New Jersey, the company said Thursday. The company said construction will start in 2016 and the system is scheduled to start providing power in 2019. Transmission developer Trans-Elect is leading the New Jersey Energy …

Bechtel‘s Savannah River Remediation has received the U.S. Energy Department‘s voluntary protection program‘s Star of Excellence award. According to a Bechtel statement, the award is for the remediation programs that ensure the health and safety of workers at the department’s site at the Savannah River in South Carolina. Dave Olson, …