Bechtel Expands Operations On The East Coast; New Office Opens In Northern Virginia.TYSONS CORNER, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 7, 1996--Bechtel National Inc. (BNI BNI Business Network International BNI Business Networking International BNI Bank Negara Indonesia BNI Bechtel National, Inc. BNI British Nursing Index BNI Barrow Neurological Institute (Phoenix, AZ) ) officially opened its office today in the Tysons Corner area of Northern Virginia Northern Virginia (NoVA) consists of Arlington, Fairfax, Loudoun, and Prince William counties and the independent cities of Alexandria, Falls Church, Fairfax, Manassas, and Manassas Park. to serve as its East Coast center of operations for the company's projects in the former Soviet Union, Central and Eastern Europe The term "Central and Eastern Europe" came into wide spread use, replacing "Eastern bloc", to describe former Communist countries in Europe, after the collapse of the Iron Curtain in 1989/90. , and the Baltics. Several major BNI programs will be managed by the Northern Virginia office, including its activities for the U.S. government's Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR See click-through rate. ) program and other U.S. nuclear safety upgrade projects. The CTR program is the product of U.S. legislation that in 1991 authorized the Department of Defense to assist former member nations of the Soviet Union to eliminate weapons of mass destruction Weapons that are capable of a high order of destruction and/or of being used in such a manner as to destroy large numbers of people. Weapons of mass destruction can be high explosives or nuclear, biological, chemical, and radiological weapons, but exclude the means of transporting or . Bechtel is currently at work on six CTR projects, valued at more than $100 million. "We plan to consolidate our CTR projects to take advantage of procedures and lessons learned, to improve logistics, and to cooperate with Moscow, Kiev and Ukraine," said BNI's Ron Naventi, vice president of Operations in Defense and International Programs. "The Northern Virginia office will bring us into much closer contact with our customers, many of whom are based in the East Coast region." The Bechtel International Consulting Group, currently helping Moscow and governments of the former Eastern Bloc During the Cold War, the term Eastern Bloc (or Soviet Bloc) was used to refer to the Soviet Union and its allies in Central and Eastern Europe (Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and—until the early 1960s—Albania). create new laws New Laws: see Las Casas, Bartolomé de. and economic rules to restructure their energy industries, will be housed in the new office as well. The group is halfway through a three-year contract from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID USAID United States Agency for International Development USAID Agencia de los Estados Unidos para el Desarrollo Internacional (Spanish) ) to help 11 countries establish new energy laws and policies to create new systems for their emerging free-market economies. Included in the project are Albania, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Poland, Romania, and Slovakia. "This office is the newest star in the Bechtel National constellation of resources for projects that the company undertakes throughout the world. We can provide expert resources that are applicable to our customers worldwide," said Naventi. Bechtel has had offices in the region since 1943. The Washington, D.C. office handles government affairs, international finance and marketing efforts. The nearby Gaithersburg, Maryland office, opened in September 1961, is the home of Bechtel Power Corp. The Tysons Corner office, located at 8400 Westpark Dr., will house 35 permanent employees, including several members of BNI's management team, with additional growth expected in 1997 as other Bechtel projects move into the office. Bechtel is a privately owned and managed corporation headquartered in San Francisco. Founded in 1898, Bechtel has grown into a multinational company with more than 60 business offices located worldwide. The Bechtel organization provides technical and management support services support services Psychology Non-health care-related ancillary services–eg, transportation, financial aid, support groups, homemaker services, respite services, and other services to develop, engineer, build and operate a broad spectrum of commercial and industrial facilities and infrastructure. Bechtel National Inc. is a major component of Bechtel Group Inc. BNI specializes in providing a wide range of services, including large project management and integration, maintenance and operations, design, procurement, construction management, and environmental remediation for one-of-a-kind projects in the areas of defense and space and the nuclear fuel cycle Nuclear fuel cycle The nuclear fuel cycle typically involves the following steps: (1) finding and mining the uranium ore; (2) refining the uranium from other elements; (3) enriching the uranium-235 content to 3–5%; (4) fabricating fuel elements; (5) . BNI is currently working on over 72 projects in 14 different countries. CONTACT: Bechtel National Inc. Olivia Kress, 703/448-3900 or 415/768-7920 |
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