Bechtel Corporation

…business executive, president (1936–60) of W.A. Bechtel Company and its successor, Bechtel Corp., one of the world’s largest construction and engineering firms. Projects to which his firm and its affiliated companies have substantially contributed include the Hoover Dam, the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge, the Alaska oil pipeline, and rapid transit…

In the mid-1970s the Bechtel Company of San Francisco was commissioned to engineer the construction of the new port, one of the largest civil engineering projects in the world. The core of the new city, developed under the direction of two Saudi government agencies, the General Petroleum and Mineral…