Bechtel Corporation is the largest 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. As of 2010, Bechtel had $30.8 billion in revenue and employed 49,000 workers on projects in nearly 50 countries. Bechtel participated in the building of Hoover Dam in the 1930s. It has also had involvement in a number of other high profile construction engineering projects: numerous power projects such as refineries and nuclear power plants; transportation projects including the Channel... Tunnel, the BART system, King Fahd International Airport in Dammam , Hong Kong International Airport and the Big Dig; and other projects such as the Kingdom Centre and Tower in Saudi Arabia, Jubail Industrial City, the rebuilding of the civil infrastructure of Iraq funded by the United States Agency for International Development , and the hauling and installing of more than 35,000 trailers and mobile homes for Hurricane Katrina victims in Mississippi. The Bechtel family has owned Bechtel since incorporating the company in 1945.
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