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Bechtel

Partner Name:

BECHTEL

Contacts:

Dr. Patrick Ryan

Type of Organization:

Private Industry

Location of Organization:

San Francisco, California

Organizational Emphasis:

Civil and Environmental Engineering, Construction, Project Management, and Technology

Organization Description:                  

Bechtel, whose corporate office is located in San Francisco, is the world’s premier engineering, construction, and project management company. Bechtel has completed over 20,000 projects worldwide, ranging from building the Hoover Dam in the 1930s to leading the Kuwait reconstruction in the 1990s. Bechtel has completed over 150 major environmental assignments, many at DOE sites such as Savannah River Plant, Hanford, and Yucca Mountain, and has cleaned up over 500 hazardous waste sites. Bechtel also has worked extensively on water and wastewater projects, including building treatment and desalinization facilities, aqueducts, and reservoirs.