AECOM, known earlier as Holmes and Narver, held the Nevada Test Site contract for many years before Bechtel Nevada Corp. had it.

Effective October 1, 2007, the US Department of Energy awarded Bechtel partnership LLNS LLC the contract to operate Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory: Bechtel has a presence, through various partnerships, in the bulk of the US nuclear weapons facilities, including Los Alamos National Laboratory ( design and pit production ), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory ( design ), Savannah River Site ( nuclear materials ), Hanford Site ( nuclear materials ), Pantex Plant ( assembly / disassembly ), Y-12 National Security Complex ( nuclear materials ), and the Nevada Test Site ( subcritical testing ).

* Bechtel Nevada Corporation

The initial setup was made under the first HDZ government which contracted Bechtel Corporation ; this was later replaced by the effort of the SDP-led government effort led by Radimir Čačić ; and then continued by the HDZ government under Ivo Sanader.

The causes were not clear, however three factors have been cited: inter-union rivalry, poor working conditions, and the perceived arrogance of American executives of the contractor, Bechtel Corporation.

The University of California decided to create a private company with the Bechtel Corporation, Washington Group International, and the BWX Technologies to bid on the contract to operate the laboratory.

However, one of the Bechtel Governors must be a representative of Babcock and Wilcox ( B & W ) or the Washington Division of URS Corporation ( URS ), who is nominated jointly by B & W and URS each year, and who must be approved and appointed by Bechtel.

An accomplished private sector businessman, he later became vice president and general counsel of Bechtel Corporation, and still later Chairman of Forbes.

For the next five years, Weinberger was vice president and general counsel of the Bechtel Corporation in California.

Bechtel Jr. Foundation, and the Research Corporation for Science Advancement.

It is contractor-operated for the government by Bechtel Marine Propulsion Corporation ( BMPC ), which also operates Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory and Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory.

Bechtel Corporation ( Bechtel Group ) is the largest construction and engineering company in the United States, ranking as the 5th-largest privately owned company in the U. S. Its headquarters are in the Financial District of San Francisco.

Bechtel Company joined with five competitors to form the Six Companies Corporation.

Bechtel Company bought out John McCone's share in Bechtel-McCone and incorporated as Bechtel Corporation.

* Ross J. Connelly is the former CEO of Bechtel Energy Resources Corporation.

* Arabian Bechtel Corporation

* Bechtel Constructors Corporation

* Bechtel Infrastructure Corporation ( BINFRA )

* Bechtel Marine Propulsion Corporation

* Bechtel McCone Parsons Corporation ; Engineers, Constructors

* Bechtel Northern Corporation

* Bechtel Overseas Corporation

The positions of President / Laboratory Director and Deputy Laboratory Director are filled by joint action of the Chair and Vice Chair of the Executive Committee, with the University of California nominating the President / Laboratory Director and Bechtel nominating the Deputy Laboratory Director.

* Bechtel / Parsons Brinkerhoff joint venture

In his tenure at OPIC, Connelly finalized OPIC's $ 130 million loan to Lima Airport Partners, a joint venture between Bechtel to privatize Jorge Chávez International Airport in Lima.

* Bechtel SAIC Company, LLC, a joint venture between SAIC and Bechtel

Bechtel Power Corporation was the Architect / Engineer / Constructor for the facility initially under the direction of the Arizona Nuclear Power Project ( a joint APS / SRP endeavor ), later managed exclusively by Arizona Public Service.

It stars Martin Fuller, Mrs. William Bechtel, Walter Edwin and Bigelow Cooper.

It was also during this time that Perry Bechtel, a well-known banjo player and guitar teacher from Cable Piano in Atlanta, requested that Martin build a guitar with a 15-fret neck-to-body join.

Lyndon B. Johnson appointed Bechtel to the President ’ s Committee on Urban Housing.

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

On May 5, 2003, The New Yorker ran an article revealing that the bin Laden family had passively invested several million dollars in The Fremont Group, a private equity fund owned by the Bechtel family.

Bechtel Company to undertake more complex engineering projects and oil contracts.

In a 2002 article in People's Weekly World, CPUSA correspondents Marilyn Bechtel and Debbie Bell said of their trip to the People's Republic of China: " e came away with a new respect for the thoughtfulness, thoroughness, energy and optimism with which the Communist Party of China and the Chinese people are going about the complex, long-term process of building socialism in a vast developing country, which is of necessity part of an increasingly globalized economy.

Topics addressed include the Business Plot, where in 1933, General Smedley Butler exposed an alleged corporate plot against then U. S. President Franklin Roosevelt ; the tragedy of the commons ; Dwight D. Eisenhower's warning people to beware of the rising military-industrial complex ; economic externalities ; suppression of an investigative news story about Bovine Growth Hormone on a Fox News Channel affiliate television station ; the invention of the soft drink Fanta by the Coca-Cola Company due to the trade embargo on Nazi Germany ; the alleged role of IBM in the Nazi holocaust ( see IBM and the Holocaust ); the Cochabamba protests of 2000 brought on by the privatization of Bolivia's municipal water supply by the Bechtel Corporation ; and in general themes of corporate social responsibility, the notion of limited liability, the corporation as a psychopath, and the corporation as a person.

His son Warren A. Bechtel, Jr. took over as president of the company and served in that position until succeeded by his brother Stephen.

He held this position until he left Bechtel in 1995.

Since losing his seat he has returned to engineering, working as Tube Lines New Works Delivery Manager on secondment from Bechtel ( 2005 until 2007 ) then as the Rail Projects Delivery Manager for Bechtel based in London.

Bechtel was also the chair of the Philosophy Department from 1999 until 2002 and was heavily involved with the Philosophy-Psychology-Neuroscience program, serving at different times as Assistant Director and Director.

In January 2006, Bechtel and the other international partners settled the lawsuit against the Bolivian government for a reported two bolivianos, after intense protests that followed a ruling on jurisdiction favorable to Bechtel by the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes.

Nash figures prominently in a 2006 book about Hurricane Camille, " Roar Of The Heavens ," by Stefan Bechtel.