[26], In 1987, Bechtel was awarded a contract for project management services of an undersea tunnel linking the UK and France called the Channel Tunnel or "Chunnel." [103] 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. [10][15], Stephen D. Bechtel, Jr. took over for his father as president of the company as Stephen Bechtel, Sr. retired in 1960. [169] In 2016, the unit was contracted by the Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation to design an upgrade to the coker unit at the Assiut refinery in Egypt using its ThruPlus technology. In its design and operation, the center reflects the values that PPIC and the Bechtel family place on environmental and technological innovation. [6][7] Bechtel moved his family frequently between construction sites around the western United States for the next several years, eventually moving to Oakland, California, in 1904, where he worked as the superintendent on the Western Pacific Railroad. [104][105][106] The first section is targeted to open in October 2019[104][105][106] and the entire length of the highway is scheduled to be complete in 2024. [40], Several projects in the 2000s attracted controversy. Its frequently touted domestic accomplishments include Hoover Dam — a massive engineering feat that used some 45 million pounds of reinforced steel and 3.25 million yards of concrete to block the mighty Colorado River — the Bay Bridge, and the BART rail system. The Export-Import Bank of the United States, which loans money to foreign countries for the export of American goods and services, counted Stephen D. Bechtel Sr. among the members of its advisory committee from 1969 to 1972, and the engineering firm has maintained numerous ties since, with a company vice president now on the bank's advisory committee. Congressional Democrats have fared well, too: U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer has received $26,000 in contributions from Bechtel during the past decade, while U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi received $22,000 and Sen. Dianne Feinstein took $16,000. [39] In the early 2000s, the company provided planning and management services for the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. Yes No Oracle: Get to Know TRUTH to Any Yes or No Question. Jack Futcher is president and chief operating officer . 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This page was last edited on 31 December 2020, at 07:48. [48], Following Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Bechtel was one of four companies hired by FEMA to build temporary housing. [114] The unit completed the Catalina Solar photovoltaic generating facility and the construction of the California Valley Solar Ranch in 2013. As the size of those projects grew, so did Bechtel's geographical reach. The result, often, is Bechtel's effective privatization of public infrastructure, something that has garnered the firm a great deal of criticism. Bush remain members), numerous secretaries of state (Shultz, Henry Kissinger, and Colin Powell are listed on a recent roster in the same camp with Riley and Stephen Bechtel), and innumerable political leaders. [6][12] In 1929, Warren's son, Stephen, urged his father to embark on the company's first pipeline project. The company's work supporting the government's nuclear power plants over the years also hasn't earned it points in liberal political circles. This is one of the most expensive highways in the world. During the past three years, Bechtel (the corporation and family members) has given $95,000 to Mayor Willie Brown, a longtime power in the California Democratic Party, and to Brown-supported candidates â Sophie Maxwell, Mabel Teng, and Mark Leno to name a few â and political action committees. Bechtel also worked on a pipeline from the Yukon to Alaska called Canol for the United States Department of War during this period. [170] Also in 2016, it was awarded a contract to upgrade a refinery in Beaumont, Texas, for ExxonMobil, using ExxonMobil's proprietary SCANfining technology. In the summer of 2006, a faulty tunnel ceiling panel collapsed, killing a motorist. The documentary seeks to inspire young people to pursue engineering careers. [138] That same month, Rio Tinto announced that Kitimat had reached full production levels of 420,000 tonnes per annum,[139] while Las Bambas achieved commercial production in July 2016. [148] Bechtel has built a third of the world's LNG liquefaction capacity. [168], Bechtel's technology was licensed for facility upgrades at the Rijeka Refinery in Croatia in February 2014. But to assume that George Shultz somehow was single-handedly responsible for Bechtel's Iraq contract, or, for that matter, that his involvement was necessary for the company to get the job, is to ignore Bechtel's all but permanent place in the global power structure. [41] In 2000, after a protest against water prices being raised by a utility partially owned by Bechtel in Bolivia, the company pulled out of the country and later filed suit against Bolivia for $25 million in losses. A relatively new project, undertaken with defense contractor Lockheed Martin Corp., to manage parts of a new ballistic missile defense test site near the Marshall Islands for the U.S. Department of Defense has likewise drawn some negative attention. Weinberger, of course, subsequently became Ronald Reagan's secretary of defense. And that network started long before there was a man named Bush in high office or a war in an oil-rich country called Iraq. [41] Bechtel won a competitively-bid second contract in January 2004,[47] and completed 97 of 99 task orders of the contract, returning the two remaining projects due to the escalating security concerns in the country. [100] Bechtel has worked at Jubail for more than 40 years, and was granted a five-year extension on both projects June 2016. For more than 70 years, Bechtel has been a serious player on the field of global commerce by staying connected to and friendly with, or at least maintaining friends who are connected to and friendly with, everyone who might have anything to do with rounding up a game. [182] Additionally, in 2016, Bechtel began providing testing and operations for the Arnold Engineering Development Complex at the Arnold Air Force Base in Tennessee. He remained a close friend and golf partner of Bechtel, and brought the likes of Allen Dulles, who succeeded McCone at the CIA, and Dwight Eisenhower into their social circle. [201], Several high-ranking Bechtel executives at times held important positions in the United States government. Brendan Bechtel is Chairman and CEO and is the fifth generation of the Bechtel family to lead the company. BECHTEL, JESSE F., pp. As of 2013, it is considered the most complex project in the US. [204] The company has been named the top U.S. [124] Bechtel's work on the Carroll County Energy Facility in Ohio for Advanced Power was also completed in 2017. (An outsider is CEO.) [75] In 2013, the company established its global center of engineering excellence in Dubai focusing on rail and marine projects. Riley Bechtel, who is Stephen D. Bechtel Jr.'s son and the reigning chairman and CEO of his family's firm, is also a third-generation member of San Francisco's all-male Bohemian Club, best known for its Bohemian Grove encampment near the tiny town of Monte Rio in Sonoma County. [123] Bechtel completed construction of the Stonewall Energy Facility in May 2017. A decade later, the firm began investing money for clients other than Bechtel; as The New Yorker magazine reported earlier this year, Osama bin Laden's estranged family, with whom Bechtel has had construction business in Saudi Arabia, was among those clients. And as late as two weeks ago, 43 people were arrested protesting in front of Bechtel's headquarters near Beale and Market streets. Bechtel Group Foundation was created in 1954 to respond to the needs of the communities around the world in which Bechtel has offices or major projects. F.. of Chambersburg. [6][27], The recession of the 1980s turned the company's focus toward new areas of growth including environmental cleanup and alternative energy projects. [90], In 2013, the unit completed construction of Saudi Arabia's first aluminum smelter in Ras Al-Khair,[127] the Daunia coal mine in Queensland, Australia,[129] and the expansion of the Kooragang Coal Terminal in Port Waratah in Australia, increasing capacity to 145 million tonnes per annum (Mtpa). [193][194] 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. Board members include Riley Bechtel, Stephen Bechtel Jr., Shultz, Dachs, Cordell Hull (a retired Bechtel executive and board member distantly related to Franklin Roosevelt's secretary of state of the same name), and Harold J. Haynes, a Bechtel board member and former chairman of Standard Oil Company of California. Through its Bechtel Enterprises, the firm finances construction and other jobs in exchange for an ownership stake. His parents were Elizabeth Hogan and Stephen Bechtel Jr. Education and Early Life. [159][160] In November, 2018, the unit has completed the first of three LNG trains on the Corpus Christi Liquefaction project in Texas. The company boasts an impressive engineering and construction portfolio in the US and abroad that includes the Hoover Dam and the Hong Kong International Airport. [31], As a result of the Gulf war, Bechtel accepted the task of extinguishing oil well fires in Kuwait in 1991. The foundation has also given $3 million to charities in countries where the company has projects. During the past three years, Bechtel (the corporation and family members) has given $95,000 to Mayor Willie Brown, a longtime power in the California Democratic Party, and to Brown-supported candidates — Sophie Maxwell, Mabel Teng, and Mark Leno to name a few — and political action committees. It's currently the fourth largest privately owned corporation in the United States, with over 53,000 employees. Riley graduated with Bachelorâs degree in Political Science and Psychology from University of California. For example, in 2013 the DOE Inspector General concluded that "Bechtel determined that there was a systemic problem and a breakdown in controls over the review of design changes", but that the company had taken steps to correct the problems. Under his leadership, the Hoover Dam was finished in 1935. [104][105][106], In 2018, Bechtel's work on Panda Power Funds' Hummel Station Power Plant in Pennsylvania was completed. Bechtel Company,[11] which by this time was the leading construction company in the western United States. The Profiteers: Bechtel and the Men Who Built the World pulls back the curtain on the secretive familyâs global empire, the Bechtel Corporation, exposing its rampant abuse of corporate and political power. Six Companies won the bid in March and construction began in the summer of 1931. This is a biography of the privately owned Bechtel Company and the family ⦠⦠Just the same, as owners of one of the largest private companies in the world, the Bechtels have a permanent place in the social order of high-level business. [126], The Mining & Metals (M&M) unit works on projects related to the mining and production of materials such as aluminum, coal, copper, iron ore, alumina and other metals and minerals. [49], In 2007, Bechtel began work on the Romanian A3 motorway (Autostrada Transilvania) and Albanian motorways. According to Laton McCarthy, author of Friends in High Places: The Bechtel Story, the Bechtel-McCone firm also built an oil pipeline through the Alaskan wilderness in secret for the War Department. [7][8], Warren Bechtel died unexpectedly in 1933 while in Moscow on business. BECHTEL, BRENDAN PETERS SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94105: BECHTEL CORP: 06/13/18: $5,000: JOSHI, VIKAS SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94105: BECHTEL CORP: 10/23/18: $5,000: ... Feel free to distribute or cite this material, but please credit the Center for Responsive Politics. The tunnel was completed in 1994. The family's personal giving, however, is consistently Republican. [8][9][10], In 1925, Warren, his sons Warren Jr, Stephen, Kenneth (Ken), and his brother Arthur (Art) joined him to incorporate as W.A. The Bechtel family is a donor. [18] By the end of the decade, the company had moved from nuclear power construction toward nuclear cleanup projects, including Three Mile Island in 1979. The claim was settled in 2006 for $0.30. The fifth in a family of eight children, he was raised on a hardscrabble farm near Freeport, Illinois. Bechtel, which is the project manager for the Shell plant, also announced at the conference in Pittsburgh that it expects to play a major role in ⦠[120][121], In 2015, Bechtel began work as project manager of the Toronto-York Spadina subway extension for the Toronto Transit Commission. Any implication that we won this work as a result of anything other than our capabilities discredits our record, and the great work you do and will continue to do.”. [15][18][23] During the 1960s and 1970s, Bechtel was involved in constructing 40 percent of the nuclear plants in the United States. A century later, the Bechtel Group has revenues of $11.6 billion a year and manages more than 900 projects in 60 countries. For decades, Bechtel has been closely aligned with Stanford University. But the result was that water rates rose beyond what Cochabamba's citizens could pay, leaving many without water and sparking violent riots. Even Bechtel's charitable gifts, through the Bechtel Foundation, seem related to business, often going to the universities with engineering schools that accept and then graduate Bechtel employees. A recent Bohemian roster shows that Riley Bechtel and his father are joined in membership by Riley's brother Gary, brother-in-law Alan Dachs (head of the family investment firm the Fremont Group), Shultz, and a few other Bechtel insiders. ", "Boston's Big Dig Construction: a Look Back 10 Years Later", "Chernobyl's Radioactive Ruins Get a New Tomb", "Treatment Plant for Waste in Nuclear Cleanup Has Design Flaws, Panel Says", "Bechtel hands over Sabine Pass LNG Train 2 Control to Cheniere", "It's the first new U.S. nuclear reactor in decades. And climate change has made that a very big deal", "Boring job done: London's Crossrail team completes final tunnel", "What Bechtel partnership in Gabon could mean for development organizations", "Infrastructure: Projects all in hands of Bechtel", "The Hoover Dam of solar is now live in the desert of California. American construction and civil engineering company. Bechtel has become so skilled at the worldwide pursuit of profit that it regularly wins projects many times the size of the Iraq contract — and then, because it is one of the few firms that can build on such a grand scale, is in a position to negotiate, as payment, ownership of the very public works it builds. [32][33] Bechtel's other major projects during the 1990s included the Athens Metro system,[14] the Atlantic LNG in Trinidad,[26] the Croatian Motorway,[34] the Jubilee Line Extension for the London Underground, Quezon Power Plant in the Philippines,[35] and a semiconductor plant in China. Finance. [6] In 1906, W. A. Bechtel won his first subcontract to build part of the Oroville-to-Oakland section of the Western Pacific Railroad. [14][16][19] The company continued to expand globally throughout the 1940s, particularly in the Middle East. [23][28] In 1989 Riley P. Bechtel was named president of the company. Every year, the most powerful men in America gather at the Grove for what amounts to elite summer camp, where they produce skits and musical shows, listen to keynote speakers, eat, drink, and socialize. [115][116] Bechtel also completed the Hanna Region Transmission Development, a power transmission project in Canada, which included 1,200 new transmission towers and 85 miles (137 km) of transmission lines in 2013. [103] Considered Australia's largest public infrastructure project, the work includes new twin rail tunnels under Sydney Harbour. [77][78], Bechtel works on global megaprojects through its four business units. [90][91], 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. Rightly or wrongly, Bechtel may be the case study that explains how business is done between multinational construction giants and the governments that approve and fund the projects those giants engineer and build. The W.A. Departments of Defense and Energy. Contractor by revenue by Engineering News-Record for 20 years in a row[205][206] and ranked 12th on the publication's Top 250 International Contractors list by revenue for 2018.[207]. A rare inside look at family-controlled global construction giant Bechtel. The Bechtel family founded the Bechtel Corporation in 1898. Mr. Bechtel was president of ⦠Indeed, Bechtel has long been the firm that anti-corporate San Franciscans love to hate. [202], In 2017, Bechtel ranked eighth on Forbes' list of America's Largest Private Companies by revenue,[203] and 7th on Fortune's list of the 25 Most Important Private Companies. The initiative will make Alba the world's largest single-site aluminum smelter upon completion, boosting production to 1.5 Mtpa. The melters are the largest of their kind ever built in the United States. [43][44] Management of the project has been the subject of controversy including the Department of Energy's Inspector General reports and Government Accountability Office studies regarding rising costs, nuclear safety and quality, and whistleblower allegations. "Building a new world: Behind the scenes with Bechtel", "Finalists for Rebuilding Down to 2 Firms", "Bechtel's roots in Mideast / Lucrative projects date back to WWII", "Stephen D. Bechtel Is Dead at 88; Led Major Construction Concern", "Bechtel Corp., Industry Partnership Award", "Bechtel, New Contractor at Idaho Lab, Has Strong Ties to Nuclear Industry", "The rebuilding of Bechtel: Riley Bechtel has made peace with his past and taken on the family job of doing the undoable", "Bechtel Group: training ground for Reagan Cabinet? [164] In March 2014, the unit was awarded a contract to construct facilities in Georgia for the Shah Deniz II gas field in Azerbaijan. Its real estate arm, Fremont Properties, owns some 4 million square feet of commercial real estate, including the 23-story Bechtel Building, five other office buildings in San Francisco, and IBM's Internet division headquarters in Somers, N.Y. During the past several years, Bechtel has expanded its role into that of shareholder in several projects. Brendan is the 5th generation of the Bechtel family to lead the company. Closer to home, Riley Bechtel is a regular at Pebble Beach and plays in the PGA's celebrity Pro-Am tournament there. Bechtel contributed $685,125 to California politics during the past decade, $65,000 of which was directly related to the BART system, in which Bechtel is a contractor. [12][23], In the 1980s, Bechtel handled the project management of the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Olympics. Thanks, in part, to Steven Bechtel Sr.'s established relationship with the heads of his San Francisco business neighbor SoCal, his firm was contracted to build an 850-mile pipeline to get oil out of Saudi Arabia. [50][51], Other major projects at the end of the 2000s included the Tacoma Narrows Bridge in Washington state,[52] Jamnagar Refinery expansion in India,[53] Equatorial GuineaLNG,[54] and Oak Creek Power Plant in Wisconsin. Bechtel's son, Stephen D. Bechtel, created a partnership with his college chum John A. McCone to build pipelines and refineries for oil companies. 523 & 524 He was 88 years old. Another $60,000 went toward defeating a proposition that would have required that state construction projects use Caltrans engineers exclusively, significantly cutting work to private contractors such as Bechtel. Bechtel was eventually forced to leave the project, and has filed a $25 million claim against the Bolivian government in a World Bank court. Bechtel began working with California Standard Oil Company to build pipelines and refineries. The public heat only intensified with news that the engineering and construction firm had been included in the handful of companies chosen in secret to bid on the government's reconstruction efforts in Iraq — and subsequently won the job. More recently, for instance, Bechtel was the primary contractor in a $20 billion project to create two industrial port cities in Saudi Arabia, the largest civil engineering project in history. [89] Bechtel has built more than 17,200 miles (27,700 km) of roadway, 390 power plants, 50 hydroelectric plants,[90] as well as 20 towns and cities globally. Friday, July 14, 2006. [200] Catherine Hunt Ryan is chief financial officer. [141], Bechtel completed the engineering, procurement, and construction of a water system and desalination plant for the Escondida copper mine in Chile[127][142] in 2018. The social connections even extend to golf; Riley and Stephen are members of the Augusta National golf club in Georgia, home to the storied Masters tournament and recent subject of protest because of its refusal to admit women as members. Protesters descended on the company's headquarters after a controversial utility project Bechtel and its partners built for the Bolivian government resulted in soaring water rates in 2000. This fire-suppression project was part of the effort to rebuild the infrastructure of Kuwait. [132], In 2015, the unit completed the Las Bambas copper concentrator in Peru for MMG,[133] the Kitimat aluminum smelter in Canada for Rio Tinto Group.,[134] and the Escondida Organic Growth Project 1 (OGP1), the largest single-line copper concentrator ever built. Bechtel Corp., the San Francisco construction giant known for its global reach and high-powered political connections, won a contract Thursday worth up to $680 million to rebuild Iraqi roads, schools, sewers and hospitals damaged in the war. [29][30] The Big Dig was, at the time, the largest and most complex urban transportation project ever undertaken in the US. Bechtel, Sidney Alroy 88, died at Good Samaritan- Ambassador Nursing Home on November 29, 2020 from complica- tions of COVID-19. Atop of the mountain is Bachtel Tower, a 60 m (200 ft) tall radio tower. During the era of Stephen Bechtel Jr., a grandson of the firm's founder who ran it from 1960 to 1990, the company hired George Shultz, who'd been on Bechtel's board of directors, as president. The company also focused on turnkey projects, a concept Stephen Bechtel, Sr. pioneered, in which Bechtel handled a project from planning and design through construction. [3][4] It is the largest construction company in the United States[5] and the 11th-largest privately owned American company in 2018. In November 2016, the team slid a massive containment arch to cover the damaged nuclear reactor and contain radioactive material. In the past, Vern has also been known as Vern R Bechtel, Lavern R Bechtel and Laverne R Bechtel. [189], 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. Facebook Twitter Reddit Email RSS Feed Newsletter Donate. 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