Bechtel To Drive Productivity and Environmental Innovations in Mining at New Center in Chile

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Dec 19, 2018, 13:44 ET

The Bechtel Mining & Metals Innovation Center marks company's first in Latin America aimed at delivering industry-leading technologies that lower costs, reduce water and power consumption, and improve safety

SANTIAGO, Chile, Dec. 19, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- The global engineering, construction, and project management company Bechtel has opened the Bechtel Mining & Metals Innovation Center to lead the development of new technologies that boost productivity, promote environmental sustainability and improve worker safety for the copper industry.

Bechtel leaders at opening of Bechtel Mining & Metals Innovation Center in Santiago, Chile. From left to right, Sergio Rodriguez , Luis Morales, Rodrigo Berríos, Alicia Henriquez, David Wilson, Bill Swanson, Benjamín Porras, Paige Wilson, Franco Muñoz and Luis Soto.

Mobile Base Camp, which enables instant access to digital documents and data at project work sites, shown here at the new Bechtel Mining & Metals Innovation Center in Santiago, Chile.

The Bechtel Mining & Metals Innovation Center is the result of an initiative begun three years by Bechtel's Mining & Metals business unit, which is based in Santiago, to leverage the company's construction expertise and copper concentrator design to achieve greater efficiencies in mining projects. The center will promote the latest processes and technologies that add value to Bechtel customers by increasing productivity from the early stages of studies to project delivery.

"We are thrilled to open this center in Santiago to demonstrate how we are leading innovation in the EPC/EPCM industry to deliver better projects to our customers throughout the region." said Paige Wilson, president of Bechtel's Mining & Metals unit.

The innovations Bechtel already has developed will enable a step change in construction productivity to deliver safe, high-quality projects faster, at lower cost and reduced risk. These innovations are now available to our copper industry customers. The center, which is located at the Mining & Metals headquarters, will drive productivity innovations that focus on delivering low-cost plants through lean design techniques, engineering for installation and construction technologies. This is Bechtel's first innovation center in Latin America.

The center aims to make construction jobs safer and more efficient by training workers to use cutting-edge tools. The center also will convene entrepreneurs with Bechtel specialists and industry innovators to improve designs and delivery options.

The center will also be used to develop and demonstrate technological innovations available to improve product recovery and decrease water and power consumption, thus reducing operational costs for our customers.

About Bechtel: Bechtel is one of the most respected global engineering, construction, and project management companies. Together with our customers, we deliver landmark projects that foster long-term progress and economic growth. Since 1898, we've completed more than 25,000 extraordinary projects across 160 countries on all seven continents. We operate through four global businesses: Infrastructure; Nuclear, Security & Environmental; Oil, Gas & Chemicals; and Mining & Metals. Our company and our culture are built on more than a century of leadership and a relentless adherence to our values, the core of which are safety, quality, ethics, and integrity. These values are what we believe, what we expect, what we deliver, and what we live. www.bechtel.com

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