Reston, Virginia-based Bechtel was chosen by faculty transportation service First Scholar to design and construct charging stations for one among its electrification tasks within the U.S., the contractor introduced final week. Bechtel declined to supply the price of the undertaking.
Bechtel will present engineering, procurement and building companies for the brand new charging stations, per the discharge, and the 2 corporations plan to companion on future tasks.
The undertaking is a stepping stone in First Scholar’s plans to affect 30,000 automobiles in its fleet by 2035, in accordance with the discharge. There may be growing demand for EV batteries and infrastructure all through the U.S. and tasks throughout the EV spectrum are receiving billions in federal funding.
Bechtel considers the burgeoning discipline of EV infrastructure and electrification to be a “very excessive precedence,” Catherine Hunt Ryan, president of the corporate’s manufacturing and expertise enterprise, informed Development Dive in an interview. “We’re centered on tasks throughout the whole battery worth chain. It’s the total package deal.”
Bechtel supplies a variety of companies within the electrification market, in accordance with the discharge, together with feasibility research, website choice, front-end engineering design, procurement companies, building administration and undertaking administration. Justin Britt, basic supervisor of electrical automobiles at Bechtel, burdened the worth the corporate is inserting within the EV business.
“Constructing a future of auto electrification means investing in infrastructure in the present day in all the pieces from uncooked materials extraction, processing vegetation, battery part manufacturing, last meeting, charging stations and recycling,” Britt stated within the launch.