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10 unusual facts about Bechtel


Alex Bag

Coven Services is Bag's imaginary PR firm and advertising agency, serving clients such as Monsanto Company, Bechtel, and AOL Time Warner.

Bechdel

Bechtel, the largest engineering company in the United States

Frederick County, Maryland

The largest employers aside from the government are the Frederick Memorial Healthcare System, Bechtel, SAIC, and Wells Fargo.

Hamad International Airport

The Steering Committee awarded the contract for the development of the airport to Bechtel.

Lavalin

During the decade they designed and built the fabric roof for Montreal's Olympic Stadium and, in a partnership with Bechtel of the United States, built the James Bay Project.

Light rail in New Jersey

This line is operated under contract to New Jersey Transit by Southern New Jersey Rail Group, a Bombardier/Bechtel joint-venture.

Lindsay G. Merrithew

Gerald was an employee of the San Francisco-based engineering firm Bechtel, which led Lindsay to live in many locations across Canada.

POSC Caesar

Engineering contractors and consultants: Akvaplan-niva (Norway), Aker Solutions (Norway), Asset Life Cycle Information Management (ALCIM, Malaysia), CAESAR systems (USA), Bechtel (USA), Det Norske Veritas (DNV, Norway), Information Logic (USA) and iXIT Engineering Technology (Germany), Phusion IM Ltd (UK).

Sabri Ergun

For four years, Ergun worked at Bechtel Corporation as consultant in the field of Waste-to-Oil process development.

Sanford R. Leigh

Leigh relocated to New York, was employed as an Administrative Assistant by Bechtel, and as an organist at the Abyssinian Baptist Church.


Bateman Island

In 2002 thanks to support by Bechtel Hanford and with help from many volunteers, about 27 tons worth of beer cans, and other debris left there over the last 60 years was removed.

Dabhol Power Station

The plant was moth-balled for 5 years, while the various claimants, including MSEB, GoM, GE, Bechtel, Indian banks and the Government of India, settled their disputes over payments.

Florentine Bechtel

Bechtel entered the Jesuits in his native France and was sent to serve the Jesuit missions in the Midwestern United States and studied theology at the former Jesuit St. Stanislaus Seminary in Florissant, Missouri.

Louise Seaman Bechtel

The Bechtel Fellowship, awarded by the Association of Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of the American Library Association, awards a mid-career librarian, with a minimum of eight years experience working with children, $4,000 to spend a month reading and studying at the Baldwin library at the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida.

Moon Landrieu

Moon Landrieu was born in Uptown New Orleans, the son of Joseph G. Landrieu (owner of a small corner grocery) and Loretta (née Bechtel).

Pantex Plant

BWXT Pantex is a limited liability enterprise of Babcock & Wilcox Technical Services Group, Honeywell and Bechtel.

Privately held company

Koch Industries, Bechtel, Cargill, Publix, Pilot Corp., Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu (one of the members of the Big Four accounting firms), Hearst Corporation, S. C. Johnson, and Mars are among the largest privately held companies in the United States.

Somerhill Gallery

Exhibited artists include Herb Jackson, Maud Gatewood, John Beerman, Claude Howell, Carol Bechtel, and Peter Butler.