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Brendan Bechtel

Bechtel CEO: to build America’s future, we must first build the builders

bechtel (Credit: courtesy of Bechtel)

America just blew out the candles on its 250th birthday — a moment to celebrate the freedoms and ideals that define us. But behind those ideals stands something more tangible: infrastructure. The hardware of civilization that made the American dream real, livable, and lasting.

Since its founding, our nation’s capacity to build at scale has made the United States a world power. The railroads and highways that moved people and goods. The refineries, pipelines, nuclear plants, and LNG terminals that fueled our growth. The defense systems that kept us safe. America wouldn’t be America without them.

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