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Bechtel's business activities began in 1898, when cattle farmer Warren A. Bechtel moved from Peabody, Kansas, to the Oklahoma Territory to construct railroads with his team of mules. [6][7] Bechtel moved his family frequently between construction sites around the western United States for the next several years, eventually moving to Oakland ...
Warren Augustine Bechtel was born on September 12, 1872, on a stock farm in Freeport, Illinois, as the fifth child of Elizabeth (Bentz) and John Moyer Bechtel in a family of two boys and five girls. [2][3][4] In 1884, his family moved to Kansas. [4] In 1891, Warren graduated from Peabody High School in Peabody, Kansas. [5]
Riley Peart Bechtel CBE (born March 25, 1952) [1] is an American billionaire heir and businessman. He was the chairman of the Bechtel Corporation until April 2017. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] As of July 2021, his estimated net worth is US$2.7 billion.
Six Companies, Inc. was a joint venture of construction companies that was formed to build the Hoover Dam on the Colorado River in Nevada and Arizona. [1]They later built Parker Dam, a portion of the Grand Coulee Dam, the Colorado River Aqueduct across the Mojave and Colorado Deserts to urban Southern California, and many other large projects.
The first transcontinental railroad was completed in 1869. Railroads played a large role in the development of the United States from the Industrial Revolution in the Northeast (1820s–1850s) to the settlement of the West (1850s–1890s). The American railroad mania began with the founding of the first passenger and freight line in the country ...
Stephen Davison Bechtel Jr. (May 10, 1925 – March 15, 2021) was an American billionaire businessman, civil engineer, and co-owner of the Bechtel Corporation. He was the son of Stephen Davison Bechtel Sr. and grandson of Warren A. Bechtel, who founded the Bechtel Corporation. He was known for expanding the global footprint of the corporation ...
The airport extension project added 8.7 miles (14.0 km) of new railway; 6.1 miles (9.8 km) of subway, 1.2 miles (1.9 km) of aerial, and 1.4 miles (2.3 km) of at-grade track. The launch point was the Daly City Tailtrack project, which extended the tracks further south of the existing terminus in San Francisco and was completed in the 1980s.
Alma mater. United States Military Academy. University of California, Berkeley. Employer. Bechtel. Known for. Crossrail. Linda Jean Miller OBE (born 1961) is an American civil engineer who works for Bechtel. She is currently director of the excavation works for the Sydney Metro project, having recently been in charge of Crossrail 's Farringdon ...