Bechtel, a major contractor for the Energy Department’s nuclear complex, announced Thursday it will move its corporate headquarters to one of Washington, D.C.’s Northern Virginia suburbs.
The international engineering, procurement, and construction company said it will move corporate operations from Houston and San Francisco to Reston, Va., by the end of 2018. Bechtel already has an office in Reston, which is about 23 miles outside the U.S. capital in Fairfax County.
“For more than a decade, Bechtel’s corporate leadership has been distributed across Houston, Reston, and San Francisco,” said Bechtel President and Chief Operating Officer Jack Futcher in a press release. “Consolidating the corporate leadership and operations in Reston will enable the company to thrive in the current fast-paced business environment – one that demands faster and seamless decision-making, integration, and collaboration.” Bechtel will keep offices in Houston and San Francisco.
About 1,300 people work in Reston now, with about 150 more coming after the move.
Bechtel is the prime contractor for the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) at the Hanford Site in Washington state, under a $14.7 billion contract that extends through 2022. It is a partner in the current liquid waste management contractor at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina and the management and operations prime for the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in New Mexico.
Bechtel teamed with Purdue University to seek the next Los Alamos management contract. The Energy Department’s semiautonomous National Nuclear Security Administration announced Friday it had awarded the contract to Triad National Security, a partnership of Battelle Memorial Institute, the University of California, and Texas A&M University.
