Bechtel | Engineering the Next 100 Years

Bechtel delivers sustainability across its projects using a full-spectrum approach that involves its core engineering, procurement and construction functions, and strategic services.

Learn more about how this approach helps:

2030 goals and targets

Read about Bechtel’s long-term goals and targets to address global sustainability issues. These  include contributing 100 ideas to help achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals, and increasing resilience against natural hazards for millions worldwide.

Click here to read Bechtel’s 2016 Sustainability Report

Click here to read Build100 Blog – dedicated to addressing critical sustainability challenges

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Sustainable Development Goals

Inside World War II’s Secret Cities: Part 1
Bechtel-sponsored museum exhibit looks at massive Manhattan Project effort, 75 years later. Part 1 of a 2-part series.

Green Infrastructure

Secret Cities, 75 Years Later: Bechtel Highlights Future of Los Alamos, Hanford, Oak Ridge
A museum exhibit profiling a largely untold aspect of a turning point of the 20th century opened today in the U.S. capital, sponsored in part by Bechtel, a global leader in engineering, procurement, and construction. The new exhibit, called Secret Cities: The Architecture and Planning of the Manhattan Project, examines the innovative design and construction of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, Hanford, Washington, and Los Alamos, New Mexico; looks at daily lives within the cities, and addresses each city’s development since the conclusion of the Project.

Environment

UPF Diverts 97 Percent of Waste from Landfills
In less than five years, the Uranium Processing Facility (UPF) Project has recycled or reused nearly 194 million pounds of materials and diverted more than 97 percent of the project’s total waste from landfills.

Sustainable Development Goals

Philippines Coastal Protection: A Green-Grey Approach to Resilience
Bechtel and Conservation International are collaborating on a three-year coastal protection project in the Philippines to demonstrate the potential for natural systems to adapt to the consequences of changes in climate and extreme weather events, and the relevance of setting up grey (engineering) and green (ecosystem conservation) infrastructures in order to build resilience into coastal territories and communities especially following typhoons.

Sustainable Development Goals

Bechtel CASE STUDY: “Green-Grey” Approaches to Building Resilient Communities
As part of Bechtel’s commitment to contribute 100 ideas to support the United Nation’s 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), this case study examines how we can improve the resilience and security of vulnerable communities against the impact and implications of natural hazards by delivering projects that combine nature-based (green), traditional infrastructure (grey) and disaster risk reduction (DRR) solutions.

Diversity & Inclusion

Barbara Rusinko: A Career Solving Problems in Engineering
Engineering is in Barbara Rusinko’s blood. Her father, now 93 years old, was a Bechtel engineer and she’s been with the global engineering, construction, and project management company since starting as a summer intern in 1985.

Diversity & Inclusion

Ailie MacAdam and the Biggest Construction Project in Europe
Recently called Britain’s most successful female engineer by The Telegraph, as well as an inspiring role model by Construction News, MacAdam’s career includes major projects all over the globe, including Boston’s Central Artery highway and Sydney’s Metro City and Southwest Project.

Diversity & Inclusion

Bechtel Executive Elected to National Academy of Engineering
Barbara Rusinko becomes the first female Bechtel employee to receive the honor and the 17th in the company’s 120-year history.

Energy

BECHTEL CASE STUDY: Balancing Economic Growth with Low Carbon Energy Solutions
As part of Bechtel’s commitment to contribute 100 ideas to support the United Nation’s 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), this case study examines the challenge for emerging economies to find the right balance between pro-growth economic policies and programs, reducing greenhouse gases, and transitioning to a low-carbon, reliable and affordable energy program. Our premise is that every country has a unique energy mix that can be optimized to support societal needs and national ambitions.

Philanthropy & Cause Initiatives

No One Left Behind: The Recovery of the Gunga Din
There were more than 300 American casualties during the Battle of Kwajalein that took place from Jan. 31 to Feb. 3, 1944. There are at least eight known aircraft with 11 missing-in-action (MIA) service members that went down within the Kwajalein Atoll lagoon. In 2011, a non-profit group made up of island contractor residents was organized with a mission to find the remaining planes, and even more meaningfully – the missing service members – to give closure to MIA families.

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