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Infrastructure
The Infrastructure unit handles transportation, fossil and renewable power, transmission and communications. Infrastructure projects include highways and bridges, rail, ports, and aviation projects, as well as hydroelectric facilities. Bechtel has built more than 17,200 miles of roadway, 390 individual 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 the lines One and Two of the Riyadh, Saudi Arabia metro, which began construction in April 2014. 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. Since 2015, it has been overseeing the project management of the Spadina subway extension for the Toronto Transit Commission. 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.

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

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. For Advanced Power, Bechtel is working on three combined cycle plants, South Field Energy and Carroll County Energy in Ohio, and Cricket Valley Energy in New York. It is also building the Keeyask Generating Station, a hydroelectric power plant for Manitoba Hydro in Manitoba, Canada.

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

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. The unit also completed the Catalina Solar photovoltaic generating facility and the construction of the California Valley Solar Ranch in 2013.

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.