Leading Industry Publication: Black & Veatch Remains Among Global Critical Infrastructure Leaders as Sustainability, Decarbonization Solutions Drive Growth
24 Abril 2024 - 4:43PM
Business Wire
Engineering News-Record’s power, water and telecommunications
rankings affirm company’s status in infrastructure development,
innovation
The Engineering News-Record’s (ENR) latest “Top 500 Design
Firms” Sourcebook again ranks global critical infrastructure
solutions provider Black & Veatch among the world’s leaders in
power, water and telecommunications as decarbonization,
sustainability, resilience and other megatrends propel the
company’s growth.
Basing its rankings on the company’s operational revenue, the
Top 500 Design Firms Sourcebook lists Black & Veatch’s power
business again at No. 3. Black & Veatch remains at No. 8 in
water and is tenth in telecommunications.
“With decarbonization, electrification, clean water and
cybersecurity among the world-changing megatrends impacting our
clients, we’re deeply committed and uniquely positioned to deliver
the disruptive innovations that these exciting, evolving times
demand,” Black & Veatch’s Chairman and CEO Mario Azar said.
“We’ve been solving the world’s infrastructure challenges for
more than a century,” Azar added. “And we’ll continue to leverage
that deep, trusted expertise and disruptive technology for our
diverse client base, ranging from Fortune 1000 companies to
utilities, developers and local, state and national
governments.”
In 2023, the company expanded its broad portfolio of services
with record numbers of construction hours completed (24.5 million,
up nearly 8 million from the previous year), and increased its
diverse employee-owners workforce by 17 percent (12,494 as of Jan.
1, 2024, up from 10,691 the previous year) to meet historical
levels of project backlog and growth across its global regions.
Black & Veatch continues to drive innovation across critical
infrastructure markets, as reflected in these projects announced or
having achieved significant milestones in 2023:
- Global Hydrogen Council member Black & Veatch is the
owner’s engineer for the Intermountain Power Agency’s effort to
retire its original coal-fueled facility in Utah and replace it
with an 840-megawatt natural gas-fueled combined cycle power plant.
The project is among the earliest installations of combustion
turbine technology designed to use a high percentage of green
hydrogen. Black & Veatch also is the engineering, procurement
and construction (EPC) contractor for what will become the world’s
biggest industrial green hydrogen production and storage hub,
adjacent to the IPA power plant.
- As a global leader in renewable energy infrastructure, Black
& Veatch served a port-marshalling role and developed a unique,
customized environment, health and safety (HSE) program for the
Vineyard Wind off of Massachusetts’ coast – the first
commercial-scale offshore wind project in the United
States.
- Serving in a civil and structural engineering capacity while
helping lead the design, Black & Veatch played a critical role
in expanding the Johnson County (Kansas) Tomahawk Creek wastewater
treatment facility. In November 2023, the $340-million project
was named the Midwest’s best in the water and environment category
by the Engineering News-Record.
- In California, the Black & Veatch-designed Orange County
Water District Groundwater Replenishment System’s final expansion
was dedicated in 2023. The GWRS produces high-quality recycled
water used to recharge the Orange County Groundwater Basin, the
primary potable water supply for more than 2.5 million people.
The project won a Water Environment Federation “project
excellence award.”
- At year-end 2023, Black & Veatch had 3.3 gigawatts DC of
solar generation in construction or commissioning, including
utility-scale solar projects Crown and Sol in central Texas’ Falls
County for BAES Infrastructure, a diversified energy company
focusing on energy transition projects.
- As part of its industry leading position in liquefied natural
gas (LNG) infrastructure solutions, Black & Veatch – with
Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) of South Korea – last year was
awarded a front-end engineering design (FEED) contract for the Ksi
Lisims LNG nearshore floating production facility in northwest
Canada. The project represents the next generation of LNG export
design, re-inventing the industry for environmentally sensitive and
greenhouse-gas constrained development situations. The project is
being developed jointly by Western LNG, the Nisga’a Nation and
Rockies LNG.
- Through the Joint Electric Scaling Initiative (JETSI), Black
& Veatch in 2023 announced the design-build completion of
high-power chargers in South El Monte, California, for Schneider
National Inc., a premier multimodal provider of transportation,
intermodal and logistics services with one of country’s largest
zero-emission fleets. That site allows up to 32 battery-electric
trucks to charge simultaneously and deliver an 80 percent charge
within 90 minutes.
About Black & Veatch
Black & Veatch is a 100-percent employee-owned global
engineering, procurement, consulting and construction company with
a more than 100-year track record of innovation in sustainable
infrastructure. Since 1915, we have helped our clients improve the
lives of people around the world by addressing the resilience and
reliability of our most important infrastructure assets. Follow us
on www.bv.com and on social media.
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