Talk:Bechtel/Archives/2018

Infobox, Introduction and History
Hello, I am EM at Bechtel. I am stepping in as Bechtel's representative in place of CM at Bechtel. I am here with proposed updates to the infobox, introduction, and History. As my colleagues have in the past, I will not make edits to company-related articles, so you'll see me stick to posting suggested edits to discussion pages. User:Dormskirk: Can you please review these suggested edits and implement them if they are neutral and properly sourced?

Infobox
 * Please update revenue to: $32.9 bn (2017)


 * Please update number of employees to: 50,000 (2017)

Introduction
 * Please consider the following to replace the existing introduction. Currently, the intro says Bechtel is a civil engineering firm, yet Bechtel does not only do civil engineering, and it excludes Bechtel's procurement and project management work. Also, it could be viewed as promotional that the existing intro says Bechtel is the "largest" in the first sentence, so I moved that to the second sentence.


 * Bechtel Corporation (Bechtel Group, Inc.) is an engineering, procurement, construction, and project management company. It it the largest construction company in the United States and the 8th-largest privately owned American company in 2017. Its headquarters are in the South of Market, San Francisco.

History
 * Please consider this revised sentence in the fifth paragraph of WWII, overseas expansion and the nuclear age, which changes the wording for clarification and provides additional sourcing:
 * The company later built the United States' first privately financed commercial nuclear power plant, the Dresden Generating Station, for Commonwealth Edison in Illinois in 1957.


 * Please consider replacing reference No. 45 ("Feds: Bechtel not doing safety checks at Hanford" by Steven Mufston in The Seattle Times, which is currently a dead link) to the same story in The Washington Post.

Thank you. EM at Bechtel (talk) 18:39, 22 March 2018 (UTC)


 * Done. Dormskirk (talk) 20:44, 22 March 2018 (UTC)


 * Thank you, User:Dormskirk! I should have more proposed updates in the near future. EM at Bechtel (talk) 14:28, 23 March 2018 (UTC)

Nuclear, Security & Environmental
Hello again, as Bechtel's representative here, I have another proposed update for this article, this time for Nuclear, Security & Environmental. Slightly different from my above request, I have a number of edits large and small, so I will list them below and provide a full text in a collapse box to help with implementing. User:Dormskirk: Can you please review these additional suggestions and implement them if they are neutral and properly sourced?


 * Please remove the superfluous comma after "Security"; the official division name is "Nuclear, Security & Environmental"


 * Please update the year at the start of the second paragraph to 2017, amend the wording regarding number of labs and national security-related facilities under management (a new reference is provided to confirm this), and clarify wording regarding the Y-12 Complex and Pantex Plant


 * Please consider also updating the wording regarding sustainability awards, to remove "from the National Nuclear Security Administration", since awards have been received from other agencies, and adding the latest award to the total received as "13 since 2016" (again, a new reference is provided for this)


 * Please can you add in details of the 2016 settlement of the civil suit against Bechtel and AECOM regarding Hanford Nuclear Reservation? (new reference provided)
 * As well, please can you consider an addition to the paragraph re: Hanford noting the completion of the two nuclear waste melters at the site? (new reference provided)


 * Please can you remove the mention of the Beaver Valley project? This is an older project and not particularly noteworthy.


 * Finally, please can you consider adding two newer major projects to the section: Georgia Power's Plant Vogtle, and the Uranium Processing Facility at the Y-12 National Security Complex in Tennessee?

Thank you. EM at Bechtel (talk) 15:04, 30 April 2018 (UTC)

The Nuclear, Security & Environmental unit handles the company’s government work and commercial nuclear businesses. The unit supports U.S. and international governmental organizations including the U.S. Departments of Defense and Energy. Since the 1950s, Bechtel has designed, serviced, or delivered 80 percent of all nuclear plants in the U.S.

As of 2017, Bechtel leads or is a member of a consortium that manages two national laboratories and a number of national security-related facilities in the U.S., including: the Los Alamos National Laboratory, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and the combined operations of the Y-12 National Security Complex and the Pantex Plant. Bechtel has won numerous sustainability awards for its work with these facilities, including thirteen since 2016.

Bechtel has been contracted to manage the United States Navy's nuclear propulsion research facilities since 2011. In June 2013 the unit completed design and construction on a U.S. Missile Defense Agency project at Fort Greely, Alaska, which included three missile fields and forty silos. In 2014 the U.K. Ministry of Defence selected Bechtel to support the Royal Navy and Air Force on procurement and managed support services. Additionally, in 2016, Bechtel began providing testing and operations for the Arnold Engineering Development Complex at the Arnold Air Force Base in Tennessee.

Other government work includes the construction of the facilities to treat the liquid radioactive waste stored underground at the Department of Energy's Hanford nuclear waste site in Washington. Bechtel and AECOM made an agreement in 2016 to pay $125 million to settle claims by the U.S. Department of Justice that the companies used subpar work while building a nuclear waste treatment facility at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington state, in addition to allegedly using public funds for lobbying. The companies did not admit wrongdoing; they said they settled to avoid long, costly litigation. In late 2017, Bechtel completed the assembly of two nuclear waste melters, each at 300 tons. The melters are the largest of their kind ever built in the United States.

The unit also manages U.S. Department of Defense contracts to dismantle and dispose of stored chemical weapons, including decades-old mustard and nerve gas from World War II. It completed the construction of the Blue Grass Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant as part of this work in 2015. Since May 2012, Bechtel has been part of a consortium completing the Chernobyl New Safe Confinement, a structure that will safely confine the damaged Chernobyl Nuclear Reactor Number 4. Bechtel continues to oversee the operation. In November 2016, the team slid a massive containment arch to cover the damaged nuclear reactor and contain radioactive material.

In 2016, Bechtel completed work on Tennessee Valley Authority's Watts Bar 2 nuclear reactor. In May 2016, a joint venture including Bechtel won a contract to conduct front-end engineering and design for the eventual construction of Wylfa Newydd, a nuclear power station in Wales for Horizon Nuclear Power.

In August 2017, Bechtel took over as the lead contractor to complete construction at Georgia Power's Plant Vogtle. Bechtel was awarded the contract and took over day-to-day construction of Plant Vogtle’s Units 3 and 4 after Westinghouse Electric, the designer and principal contractor for the two new reactors, filed for bankruptcy.

As of 2018, Bechtel is building the Uranium Processing Facility at the Y-12 National Security Complex in Tennessee. The $6.5 billion project is part of the National Nuclear Security Administration program to replace aging, Cold War-era facilities that service, refresh, and replace the uranium stages of nuclear warheads.


 * Done. Thanks for the very professional mark-up. Best wishes. Dormskirk (talk) 18:54, 30 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Thank you, User:Dormskirk! I should have more proposed updates for editors to consider soon. EM at Bechtel (talk) 16:28, 1 May 2018 (UTC)

Locations and operational activities, Infrastructure
Hello again. I have proposed updates for Locations and operational activities and Infrastructure. I am Bechtel's representative here, so I will explain my proposals below and provide a full text of my draft Locations and operational activities and Infrastructure in a collapse box to help with implementing. Dormskirk: Can you please review these suggestions and implement them if they are neutral and properly sourced, as you have with other requests for this article?

Locations and operational activities
 * Please remove "Frederick, Maryland" from the first paragraph, as this is no longer accurate. Sources: Bechtel Corporation Moving From Maryland To Virginia and Exit Maryland: Bechtel finalizes its move to Virginia.
 * Just before the Infrastructure subsection, please consider adding the following:
 * Bechtel was the presenting sponsor of "Dream Big: Engineering Our World," a 42-minute IMAX documentary produced by MacGillivray Freeman Films in partnership with American Society of Civil Engineers. The documentary seeks to inspire young people to pursue engineering careers.
 * Bechtel opened its welding and applied technology center in 2017 in the Houston Energy Corridor to train welding and construction workers. The center also provides virtual training and augmented reality to train workers.

Infrastructure My Infrastructure draft is perhaps my most significant rewrite, and it would be difficult to list every little change I'm proposing. If it helps for reviewing purposes, Dormskirk, should I drop the current version into userspace and replace with my draft to create an edit showing the difference? Either way, I will summarize what I have done:
 * I have rearranged content throughout so Infrastructure is organized as follows:
 * The first paragraph is a description of the unit
 * Paragraphs 2, 3, 4, and 5 list ongoing projects (chronologically)
 * The last two paragraphs contain recently completed projects
 * I have provided general copy editing as needed to improve the language and consolidate certain areas that were getting too muddled as projects developed
 * I added that in February 2017, Bechtel was chosen to support setting up and operating Saudi Arabia's National Project Management Office
 * I updated the status of projects
 * I added newer projects, such as Bechtel's Sydney Metro project, work to design and build a highway in Kenya, and a new air passenger terminal in Oman
 * I have also retained the following sentence because it is appropriately sourced. However, it is outdated, yet there is no good sourcing that I could use to update. If you feel the sentence can be removed, could you please do so?
 * As of June 2015, the project is 65% complete.

Thank you. EM at Bechtel (talk) 17:02, 4 June 2018 (UTC)

Bechtel's major operational locations are in Brisbane, Calgary, Dubai, Houston, London, New Delhi, Reston, Virginia, San Francisco, Santiago, Shanghai, Nairobi, Taipei, and Washington, D.C.

The company's main headquarters are located at its San Francisco office, while the Reston office houses the company's global operational headquarters, as well as the headquarters of the Nuclear, Security & Environmental global business unit and the North American offices of the Infrastructure global business unit. The company's Oil, Gas & Chemicals unit is based in the Houston office. The Washington office maintains both a Political Action Committee and a lobbying program.

Outside of North America, the Infrastructure unit’s headquarters is located at the company’s London office. The Mining & Metals unit is headquartered at the company’s Brisbane office and also maintains operations in Santiago and Dubai. In 2013, the company established its global center of engineering excellence in Dubai focusing on rail and marine projects. It established innovation centers in Houston and London in 2015 to test new technology.

Bechtel works on global megaprojects through its four business units. The company frequently manages work from design through construction phases. Its corporate values include safety, quality, and ethics.

Bechtel was the presenting sponsor of "Dream Big: Engineering Our World," a 42-minute IMAX documentary produced by MacGillivray Freeman Films in partnership with American Society of Civil Engineers. The documentary seeks to inspire young people to pursue engineering careers.

Bechtel opened its welding and applied technology center in 2017 in the Houston Energy Corridor to train welding and construction workers. The center also provides virtual training and augmented reality to train workers.

The Infrastructure unit handles transportation, fossil and renewable power, transmission, communications, ports, and hydroelectric facilities. Transportation projects include highways, bridges, rail, and aviation facilities. Bechtel has built more than 17200 miles of roadway, 390 power plants, 50 hydroelectric plants, as well as 20 towns and cities globally. It has worked on 300 subway and rail projects, 80 port and harbor projects, and 96 major airport projects.

Bechtel's Infrastructure unit is leading a consortium in the engineering, procurement and construction of lines One and Two of the Riyadh, Saudi Arabia metro, which began construction in April 2014. In July 2014, Bechtel was selected to build a new 37-mile motorway linking Kosovo's capital, Pristina, to Macedonia.

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. As of June 2015, the project is 65% complete.

In 2016, Bechtel began construction on the first phase of the Edmonton Valley Line Light Rail Transit project in Alberta, Canada, the first public–private partnership (P3) business group. The company is also involved in several ongoing projects as of 2016, including building national infrastructure in Gabon and supporting the continuous development of Jubail industrial city in Saudi Arabia. Bechtel has worked at Jubail for more than 40 years, and was granted a five-year extension on both projects June 2016.

In February 2017, Bechtel was chosen to support setting up and operating Saudi Arabia's National Project Management Office. In May 2017, Bechtel was appointed the delivery management partner for the tunnels and stations excavation package of Stage 2 of the Sydney Metro project. Considered Australia's largest public infrastructure project, the work includes new twin rail tunnels under Sydney Harbor. Bechtel won the contract in August 2017 to design and build a 473-kilometer highway with 19 interchanges linking Nairobi, Kenya's capital, to Mombasa, Kenya's main port. The first section is targeted to open in October 2019  and the entire length of the highway is scheduled to be complete in 2024.

As of March 2018, Bechtel's work on Panda Power Funds' Hummel Station Power Plant in Pennsylvania was nearly complete. Bechtel is also working on a project for Advanced Power, the Cricket Valley Energy Center in New York. Bechtel is also building the Keeyask Generating Station, a hydroelectric power plant for Manitoba Hydro in Manitoba, Canada. The Infrastructure unit had also worked on projects for Google Fiber in several markets in the Southeastern U.S.

Among completed projects, Bechtel finished a 10.8 miles four-lane motorway in Kosovo a year ahead of schedule in November 2013. The unit completed the Catalina Solar photovoltaic generating facility and the construction of the California Valley Solar Ranch in 2013. Bechtel also completed the Hanna Region Transmission Development, a power transmission project in Canada, which included 1,200 new transmission towers and 85 mile of transmission lines in 2013. Bechtel completed Phase I of an extension of the Dulles Corridor Metrorail in Northern Virginia and completed the Hamad International Airport in Doha, Qatar in 2014. Bechtel also completed the world's largest solar thermal project, the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System in California, which began producing power in February 2014.

In 2015, Bechtel began work as project manager of the Toronto-York Spadina subway extension for the Toronto Transit Commission. The project was completed in 2017. Bechtel completed construction of the Stonewall Energy Facility in May 2017. The 778 megawatt natural gas-fired power plant supplies electricity to 778,000 homes in northern Virginia and the Washington, D.C., metro area. Bechtel's work on the Carroll County Energy Facility in Ohio for Advanced Power was also completed in 2017. In 2018, the unit completed a new air passenger terminal in Muscat, Oman.


 * Done. Best wishes. Dormskirk (talk) 18:53, 4 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Thank you again, Dormskirk! I just have one more request, and it should be a simple review. I will let you know once it is ready. EM at Bechtel (talk) 16:23, 5 June 2018 (UTC)

Financials and rankings
Hello again. I have proposed updates for Financials and rankings based on the newest figures. I am Bechtel's representative here, so I will explain my proposals below and provide a full text of my draft Financials and rankings in a collapse box to help with implementing. Dormskirk: This is my last request for this round of updates. Can you please review these suggestions and implement them if they are neutral and properly sourced?


 * Please update the first sentence to say that in 2017, Bechtel ranked eighth on Forbes' list of America's Largest Private Companies by revenue, and add new citation
 * Please update the next sentence to say that Bechtel was named the top U.S. contractor by revenue by Engineering News-Record for 20 years in a row and ranked fifth on the publication's Top 250 international contractors list by revenue for 2017, and add new citations

Thank you. EM at Bechtel (talk) 21:03, 7 June 2018 (UTC)

In 2017, Bechtel ranked eighth on Forbes' list of America's Largest Private Companies by revenue, and it was ranked 7th on Fortune's list of the 25 Most Important Private Companies. It has been named the top U.S. Contractor by revenue by Engineering News-Record for 20 years in a row and ranked fifth on the publication's Top 250 International Contractors list by revenue for 2017.


 * Done. Best wishes. Dormskirk (talk) 23:22, 7 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Thank you, Dormskirk, for your help with this and my other requests! EM at Bechtel (talk) 13:44, 11 June 2018 (UTC)