Bechtel

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Bechtel Corporation (Bechtel Group) is the largest construction and engineering company in the USA,[1] ranking as the 5th-largest privately owned company in the US.[2] Its headquarters are in the Financial District of San Francisco.[3] As of 2010, Bechtel had $27.9 billion in revenue and employed 52,700 workers on projects in nearly 40 countries.[4]


Water operations

Aside from its work in other sectors Bechtel is fast gaining an unwanted reputation in its water operation as an inefficient supplier of water. In Ecuador Bechtel stands accussed of increasing bills whilst failing to fulfill the promises it makes to win the intial contract granted in 2002.[5]

Nuclear

People

Notes

  1. ENR Top 400
  2. Forbes 2011 - America's Largest Private Companies
  3. David Streitfield; Mark Fineman Bechtel Corporation Receives Iraqi Reconstruction Contract.   posted in The Tech. vol. 123, Issue 20. Friday, April 18, 2003. Retrieved 29 August 2010.
  4. Annual Report.  Bechtel.  Retrieved 9 October 2012.
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  6. "Milestones' nuclear society appointment", Bechtel website, March, 2005.