Bechtel

Bechtel Corporation is an engineering, construction, procurement, and project management company that is based in San Francisco, California. It is the largest construction company in the United States, as well as one of the top 10 largest privately owned companies in the United States as of 2017. As of 2017, this company had approximately 50,000 employees. The positions include divisions like supervision procurement, contract engineering, environmental health, safety information, business and corporate services, construction engineering, technology projects, safety and information systems, and more.

This business actually began all the way back in 1898 when a cattle farmer named Warren A. Bechtel moved into the Oklahoma territory to build railroads. Bechtel and his family moved around the Western United States for the next several years at railroad construction sites and eventually moved to Oakland, California in 1904 where he worked for the Western Pacific Railroad. Eventually, Bechtel and his sons created the construction company pretty much how it exists today with divisions like infrastructure, mining and metals, nuclear, security, environmental in oil, gas and chemicals. The services that they provide are construction services and related services like carpentry, technology construction workers, welders, wireless technicians, mechanics and more.

Bechtel has several major operations around the world including operations in Brisbane, Australia; Calgary, Canada; Dubai, India; Houston, Texas in the United States; as well as other US locations like Reston, Virginia and San Francisco, California. There are also locations in Shanghai, Nairobi, Taipei, and in Washington, DC. It is unknown exactly how much Bechtel makes, but they ranked eighth on the list of America's largest private companies by revenue in 2017 and many experts estimate their income at $32.9 billion.