⦠[101], In February 2017, Bechtel was chosen to support setting up and operating Saudi Arabia's National Project Management Office. The melters are the largest of their kind ever built in the United States. [15][23], In 1994, Bechtel began work on the US$20 billion Hong Kong Airport Core Programme, which was the largest civil engineering project at the time and included a new airport and nine other infrastructure projects. [149], Between 2011 and 2016, the unit built three LNG plants on Curtis Island in Queensland, Australia. [14][16][19] The company continued to expand globally throughout the 1940s, particularly in the Middle East. The fifth in a family of eight children, he was raised on a hardscrabble farm near Freeport, Illinois. Notably, Reagan's cabinet had two former Bechtel executives: Caspar Weinberger and George Shultz, serving as Secretary of Defense and Secretary of State respectively. He was succeeded by his son, Stephen Bechtel, Sr., who became both the head of Bechtel and chief executive of the Hoover Dam project. [104][105][106], In 2018, Bechtel's work on Panda Power Funds' Hummel Station Power Plant in Pennsylvania was completed. [197][198], Brendan Bechtel is Chairman and CEO and is the fifth generation of the Bechtel family to lead the company. During World War II, that firm, Bechtel-McCone Corp., entered into the business of building ships for the government, with the help of a land grant at Terminal Island in Los Angeles. Attorneys representing Bibb County school board member Gary Bechtel and his family in a lawsuit against Superintendent Romain Dallemand are gearing up for a ⦠Please Consider Disabling Your Ad Blocker. The firm gave more than $20,000 to Hetch Hetchy ballot issues between 2000 and 2002, when the company was a contractor there. To consider Bechtel's $680 million, insider contract to rebuild Iraq a shocking or grand instance of influence-mongering is simplistic. Brendan Bechtel is Chairman and CEO and is the fifth generation of the Bechtel family to lead the company. His parents are Elizabeth Hogan and Stephen Bechtel Jr., the former chairman and CEO of the company. Again, the membership roster here is filled with directors of major corporations and big political donors. The tunnel was completed in 1994. [23][28] In 1989 Riley P. Bechtel was named president of the company. [31], As a result of the Gulf war, Bechtel accepted the task of extinguishing oil well fires in Kuwait in 1991. [102] In May 2017, Bechtel was appointed the delivery management partner for the tunnels and stations excavation package of Stage 2 of the Sydney Metro project. Denton, Sally. [67][184][185] By 2019, the Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant in Colorado had destroyed nearly 100,000 munitions. 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It's currently the fourth largest privately owned corporation in the United States, with over 53,000 employees. In the past, Vern has also been known as Vern R Bechtel, Lavern R Bechtel and Laverne R Bechtel. [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. [186][187][188] In late 2017, Bechtel completed the assembly of two nuclear waste melters, each at 300 tons. (He later returned to a board seat.) Still largely undeveloped, California was booming in the wake of the Gold Rush, and, with the recent addition of the steam engine, railroads couldn't lay track fast enough to link the new west to the rest of the country. [9][14][15], During World War II, the United States Maritime Commission invited the company to bid for a contract to build half of their order of 60 cargo ships. Marie C. Bechtel brings with her over 25 years of experience in Family Law as well as a strong background in Psychology and Sociology. But over time, Bechtel also became a truly global player, leading construction of the Channel Tunnel between England and France and building several major airports, including a $20 billion project at Hong Kong International, among other efforts. A major donor, Bechtel has a conspicuous presence on campus with the Bechtel International Center and Bechtel Conference Center. Although many who criticize the company from the left stress its Republican connections, Bechtel's political contributions tend to relate more to its business interests than ideology. [146] In August 2015, Bechtel was contracted by Delfin LNG, to provide front-end engineering and design for a planned floating LNG vessel at Port Delfin off the coastline of Louisiana, which would be the first in the U.S.[165] Also in 2015, the unit was awarded a contract to manage the engineering, procurement, and construction of 12 new natural-gas pipelines in Thailand. The company traces its beginning to 1898 when Brendanâs great-great grandfather, Warren Bechtel, began constructing railroads in the Oklahoma Territory with a ⦠The contract led to the company being accused of both non-competitive bidding and war profiteering. [29] Litigation ensued, and in January 2008, Bechtel settled with federal and state officials for $352 million with other contractors involved paying smaller amounts. This is a biography of the privately owned Bechtel Company and the family ⦠[14][16] Between 1941 and 1945, Bechtel's wartime shipyards, including Marinship and Calship, built 560 vessels. [94], Bechtel is also participating in the building of London's Crossrail, a $24 billion project that will connect commuter towns east and west of London and is intended to serve an estimated 200 million people a year upon completion. [6][24] But in 1998, when Democrats controlled the White House, some 67 percent of Bechtel's contributions went to their party. [17], Under Stephen Bechtel, Sr., the company diversified its projects and expanded its work into other countries. Now, at the end of 2020, we are closing shop following a 12-year spend down that involved well over a billion dollars in grantmaking. In the network of Bechtel, George Shultz is but one officer (albeit an important one) in an army of notables who have long-standing business and personal contacts in government, and in the social circles that form what's often called “the permanent government,” around the globe. Critics, of course, see the situation another way, using slogans like “No blood for oil” to underscore their contentions that the firm is profiting from a Republican war through the political connections of its most prominent board member and past president, George P. Shultz. In addition to its revolving door leading to and from government and its social club connections, Bechtel gains influence over the governments that give it projects through the perfectly ordinary and legal process known as campaign contributions. Weinberger, of course, subsequently became Ronald Reagan's secretary of defense. The result, often, is Bechtel's effective privatization of public infrastructure, something that has garnered the firm a great deal of criticism. [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. And as late as two weeks ago, 43 people were arrested protesting in front of Bechtel's headquarters near Beale and Market streets. Once established in the Middle East, Bechtel expanded its work into Kuwait, and then Iran, Yemen, Lebanon, and Iraq, where, in 1984, Bechtel was involved in a deal that would have let the firm build a $1 billion pipeline to move oil out of the country through the port of Aqaba, Jordan. [191] Since May 2012, Bechtel has been part of a consortium completing the Chernobyl New Safe Confinement, a structure that will safely confine the damaged Chernobyl Nuclear Reactor Number 4. The W.A. The Bechtel family is a donor. The claim was settled in 2006 for $0.30. Depending on ideology, one could view the company as either a shining success or a horrific monster. [178] In June 2013 the unit completed design and construction on a U.S. Missile Defense Agency project at Fort Greely, Alaska, which included three missile fields and forty silos. Outside the realm of what might be considered business-related fraternizing, the Bechtels remain virtually off the social radar, certainly for folks worth a reported $3 billion. The surname Bechtel was first found in Hessen, where the family contributed greatly to the development of an emerging nation. [150][144] It completed the first of six trains in December 2014. 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. Shamann Walton Elected Board President, Savage Love: Cooped Up, Going Nowhere & Coming Never. [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. He attended The Thacher School, a boarding school. [6][27], The recession of the 1980s turned the company's focus toward new areas of growth including environmental cleanup and alternative energy projects. In the Middle East, particularly, Bechtel is a household name; it has a long history of work in Saudi Arabia, beginning with construction of the trans-Arabian pipeline in the 1940s for Standard Oil Company of California (SoCal). [122] The project was completed in 2017. [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 documentary seeks to inspire young people to pursue engineering careers. Bechtel also worked on a pipeline from the Yukon to Alaska called Canol for the United States Department of War during this period. 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. The $6.5 billion project is part of the National Nuclear Security Administration program to replace aging, Cold War-era facilities that service, refresh, and replace the uranium stages of nuclear warheads. 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. [29] Bechtel delivered over 35,000 trailers in under a year for displaced residents in Mississippi, though the company was criticized by officials and in the media for the cost and quality of work. [151][152] The complex was named a 2016 Global Best Project by Engineering News-Record in the category of "Power/Industrial"[153] and a Construction Project of the Year by S&P Global Platts. Much of the corporation's overseas work in particular has been aided relatively directly by Bechtel's government connections. In a similar sort of contract, the same partnership has taken over operations of Costa Rica's San Jose International Airport. [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. Shultz had already served in the Nixon administration as secretary of labor and treasury secretary, and would go on to be Ronald Reagan's secretary of state in 1982. [10][13][14], In January 1931, Bechtel joined other contractors in the west to form Six Companies, Inc., a consortium created to bid for a contract from the U.S. government to construct Hoover Dam. 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. 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. (An outsider is CEO.) Founded in 1898, Bechtel is a private company, now in the hands of the fifth generation of the family for whom it is named. A century later, the Bechtel Group has revenues of $11.6 billion a year and manages more than 900 projects in 60 countries. The family's personal giving, however, is consistently Republican. [88][89] Transportation projects include highways, bridges, rail, and aviation facilities. Like it or not, there really are only a few companies that can build an industrial city in a Middle Eastern country, or create a $20 billion airport complex from the ground up, or erect a refinery in the dead of winter in a former Soviet-bloc country. The earliest bearers of this name to be mentioned in ancient chronicles were Bechtold of Fulda in 1387, Bechtold Suleffel of Frankfurt in 1442, and Tibertius Bechtolf of Frankfurt in 1568. [179][178][180], Bechtel has been contracted to manage the United States Navy's nuclear propulsion research facilities since 2011. In fact, concerned about security, the family is so secretive that it successfully petitioned courts to seal the Bechtels' voter registration records some years ago, and their personal assets are held primarily in the name of a private corporation. Sally Dentonâs book The Profiteers: Bechtel and the Men Who Built the World (Simon & Schuster, 2016), demonstrates that Bechtel Corporation, which spent an estimated $6.2 million in political ⦠[144], The Oil, Gas & Chemicals unit designs and builds liquefied natural gas (LNG), oil, pipeline, petrochemicals, natural gas, and water treatment facilities. All the while, the firm has remained privately owned and tightly controlled by four generations of the Bechtel family, making it a rarity among American family-founded corporations, most of which were sold or taken public as squabbling descendants of the founders succumbed to the lure of cash-producing stock offerings. And, if Republicanism taints Bechtel's money, that same tainted money has landed heavily in the coffers of San Francisco Democrats. Closer to home, Riley Bechtel is a regular at Pebble Beach and plays in the PGA's celebrity Pro-Am tournament there. [84][85][86], Bechtel opened its welding and applied technology center in 2017 in the Houston Energy Corridor to train welding and construction workers. [156][157], Bechtel has built five LNG production trains for Cheniere Energy Partners LP as the Sabine Pass liquefaction project in Cameron Parish, Louisiana. [135], Bechtel began building the Al Taweelah alumina refinery (formerly Shaheen) in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates for Emirates Global Aluminium (EGA) in 2015. WWII, overseas expansion and the nuclear age, Hanford Tank Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant, U.S. Agency for International Development, Romanian A3 motorway (Autostrada Transilvania), Catalina Solar photovoltaic generating facility, Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant, Blue Grass Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant, Leonard P. 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The unit operates on six continents and has completed hundreds of major mining projects as well as more than 1,000 mining studies. The companies did not admit wrongdoing; they said they settled to avoid long, costly litigation. Because Bechtel is a private company, the firm's books are out of public view, but the Bechtel fortune is an industry — and a power — unto itself. The company also has secured billions in work from the U.S. Department of Energy, including contracts to manage the Nevada Nuclear Test Site and parts of a massive radioactive-waste cleanup at the former Hanford Nuclear Test Site. Personal details about Vern include: political affiliation is unknown; ethnicity is Caucasian; and religious views are listed as Christian. [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. 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. [127] M&M also completed a third berth for the BHP Billiton Mitsubishi Alliance (BMA) at Hay Point Coal Terminal in Queensland, Australia, which increased export capacity from the existing 44 Mtpa to 55 Mtpa. [6] In 1906, W. A. Bechtel won his first subcontract to build part of the Oroville-to-Oakland section of the Western Pacific Railroad. It offers: [192] Bechtel continues to oversee the operation. Fremont, according to its Web site, currently has $11 billion in assets. He received a bachelor's degree in political science and psychology from the University of California, Davis and a JD/MBA from Stanford University in 1977. 1 on ENR 2018 Top 400 contractors list", "ENR's 2018 Top 250 International Contractors", "The Channel Tunnel: 20 fascinating facts", "Amid Ceremony and Ingenuity, Kuwait's Oil-Well Fires Are Declared Out", "Chapter 40: Manufacturing Consent for Engineering Earth", "10 years later, did the Big Dig deliver? [173][174][175], In June 2019, Kallanish Energy reported that Bechtel had been hired by Thailand's PTT Global Chemical America and South Korea-based partner Daelim to build a $6 billion ethane cracker on the Ohio River in Belmont County, Ohio. Through its Bechtel Enterprises, the firm finances construction and other jobs in exchange for an ownership stake. BECHTEL FAMILY LAW GROUP has the professionalism, experience, know-how and presence to aid and guide you throughout your case. October 8, 2019 October 6, 2019 by IWB. Indeed, Bechtel has long been the firm that anti-corporate San Franciscans love to hate. As bigwigs go, Shultz, who's served in multiple GOP administrations as secretary of state, treasury, and labor, brings a lot to the table. This family are members of St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church at Boyertown. [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. [36][37][38] Bechtel also managed design and construction of facilities for Olympic games: the 1992 Barcelona Summer Olympics,[25] and the Winter Games in Nagano, Japan in 1998. Bechtel has been both a jumping-off and landing point for countless high- and midlevel government operators during the last 60 years. [14][17][18], Bechtel's first job outside the U.S. was building the Mene Grande pipeline in Venezuela in 1940. And for the secretive, politically-wired, family-controlled company, it ⦠Obituary story of Warren A. Bechtel; Peabody Gazette-Herald; October 12, 1933. [127][128] It has also finished 42 major copper projects, 30 aluminum smelters, 15 major coal projects, and eight alumina refinery projects. A Family Business. Brendan is the 5th generation of the Bechtel family to lead the company. Not only was the man's family divided, but the man himself was as well. [95][96] As of June 2015, the project is 65% complete. Bechtel Co." on the side of the steam shovel, effectively establishing Bechtel as a company, although it was not yet incorporated. He was 88 years old. Within hours of the United States military's invasion of Iraq, San Franciscans of a certain political bent went on the offensive against one of the city's home-grown businesses: the Bechtel Group Inc. [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. [page]. [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. 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]. [140] As of 2016, Bechtel is advancing the Amrun bauxite initiative for Rio Tinto in Australia, which announced project approval in November 2015. In 1957, my father, Stephen D. Bechtel, Jr., used a gift of $26,000 to begin what was assumed to be a perpetual philanthropy. Nuclear businesses was raised on a hardscrabble farm near Freeport, Illinois the fifth of! 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