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

Water Sustainability Builds Agriculture, Provides Natural Habitat at India’s Jamnagar Refinery
Reliance Industries Ltd. and Bechtel developed a system to create the water Reliance needs to run the world’s biggest oil refinery, despite the plant’s location in India’s arid state of Gujarat. The plant also produces enough surplus water to support a 1,600-acre ring of trees and plants surrounding the facility, as well as Asia’s largest mango farm. Without a robust water sustainability infrastructure and system, these improvements and farm would not be possible.

Energy

Bechtel | Powering More Than Clean Energy
The new 778-megawatt Stonewall Energy Center in Loudon County, Virginia provides the electricity the community needs while protecting its water, wildlife, and other natural resources. More than 778,000 homes in Virginia and Washington DC will be powered by the clean energy this plant produces.

Research, Reports & Publications

USCIB-GAN-CITI Rountable on Apprenticeships Report
​Apprenticeships play a crucial role in supporting the development of business-ready skills for youth and in realizing goals of inclusive economic growth and an equitable transition to a more sustainable world. As U.S. policy makers’ attention increasingly turns to apprenticeships as an important tool in addressing the challenges of matching skills with jobs, many companies are already exploring initiatives to create apprenticeship programs to support the development of business-ready skills for youth.

Sustainable Development Goals

Bechtel Build 100 Blog | Edmonton Light Rail Transit: Building More Than Rail
Bechtel is building Edmonton’s Valley Line light-rail transit extension, the largest infrastructure project undertaken by Alberta’s capital city in Canada. It will expand the commuter-rail system by eight miles (13 kilometers), linking the urban center to distant suburbs across the Saskatchewan River. Edmonton has committed to reducing its carbon footprint by 111,000 tons per year by purchasing renewable energy, which will provide electricity from cleaner sources to power the trains.

Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

Bechtel VIDEO | Raising Standards of a Sustainable Supply Chain
Interview with Héctor García Salgó, Regional President of Bechtel in Latin America

Innovation & Technology

Cyber-Defenders in the New Battle to Protect Big, Connected Machines
Critical infrastructure comprises the giant systems that support modern life, from power plants and water treatment plants to mass-transit systems. These facilities are operated through industrial control systems, sensors and components that talk to each other and to facility operators. These systems, like a smartphone, provides easy access to information and controls that would otherwise be difficult to get.

Green Infrastructure

Designing a Sustainable Future
In the past few years, global efforts such as the Paris Agreement and the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have demonstrated the tremendous progress that can be achieved through collective action. To drive this effort, Bechtel has launched a suite of 2030 enterprise-wide goals and targets.

Green Infrastructure

Corporate Sustainability Unfolding
Tam Nguyen is the global head of sustainability for Bechtel corporation, an international engineering and construction company. He directs the overall formulation and implementation of Bechtel’s sustainability strategy and integration process across the enterprise and into major projects. He also leads corporate initiatives, stakeholder and policy planning on a range of global issues, including climate change, human rights, and economic development.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Sustainability and Profitability
While many companies jump to the conclusion that environmental stewardship and bottom-line profitability are mutually exclusive of each other, Bechtel has always embraced the concept of sustainability and continues to advance it through innovation in the company.

Supply Chain & the Circular Economy

The Circular Economy Advantage on Bechtel Projects
A defining characteristic of the remarkable industrial development experienced over the last 100 years has been a ‘make-use-dispose’ approach to resource utilization in industrial processes. While this ‘linear economy’ approach has resulted in enormous advances for societies, it also has created an unsustainable demand for and use of resources and materials. With global population expected to swell to an estimated 9 billion by 2050, the intelligent use of limited resources in production and consumption has become a subject of socio-political, environmental, and economic discussion.

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