Real Estate 2024: BRENDAN BECHTEL

Serving as CEO since 2016 and chairman since 2017, Bechtel is the fifth generation to lead his family-owned global engineering, construction and project management company. Ranked the nation’s second largest construction company by Engineering News-Record, Bechtel Corp. has completed more than 25,000 projects in 160 countries since its 1898 founding.

The firm’s portfolio includes massive infrastructure and industrial projects across the world, including the Ankara-Gerede highway in Turkey and Crossrail’s Elizabeth Line railway in England. In February, Intel announced it was slowing construction on the $20 billion semiconductor manufacturing facility Bechtel Corp. is building near Columbus, Ohio.

The Bechtel-built Cutlass Solar 2 project in Fort Bend, Texas, was recently completed ahead of the 13-month delivery schedule, generating enough energy to power 40,000 homes. Next up is construction of the Oriana Solar facility for Sabanci Climate Technologies in Victoria County, Texas, which is expected to produce enough energy to power more than 34,000 homes.

Bechtel sits on the board of the Business Roundtable and chairs its infrastructure committee.