Bechtel

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Bechtel Corporation (Bechtel Group) is the largest construction and engineering company in the USA,[1] ranking as the 5th-largest privately owned company in the US.[2] Its headquarters are in San Francisco.[3] As of 2010, Bechtel had $27.9 billion in revenue and employed 52,700 workers on projects in nearly 40 countries.[4]

Nuclear

According to Bechtel's website:

Since the earliest commercial nuclear reactors a half-century ago, Bechtel has played a pivotal role in every phase of the industry’s development. We have designed and/or built more than half of the nuclear power plants in the United States, and we currently provide operating services to many of those plants and others as well. Bechtel offers a complete selection of services, including plant recovery support, plant license renewal, steam generator replacement, and new nuclear generation. [5]

People

Water operations

In Ecuador Bechtel was accused of increasing bills whilst failing to fulfill the promises it made to win an intial water operations contract granted in 2002.[7]

Notes

  1. ENR Top 400
  2. Forbes 2011 - America's Largest Private Companies
  3. David Streitfield; Mark Fineman Bechtel Corporation Receives Iraqi Reconstruction Contract.   posted in The Tech. vol. 123, Issue 20. Friday, April 18, 2003. Retrieved 29 August 2010.
  4. Annual Report.  Bechtel.  Retrieved 9 October 2012.
  5. Nuclear Power, Bechtel website, undated, 19 September 2013
  6. "Milestones' nuclear society appointment", Bechtel website, March, 2005.
  7. [1]