Bechtel (Bechtel Corporation) is an American family-owned, integrated engineering business founded in 1898 and headquartered in San Francisco, providing technical, management, and direct services related to development, financing, design, construction, and operation and installation for a variety of industry sectors. The representative projects of Berkard are Hoover Dam, Channel Tunnel, Kuwait Oil Field Fire Fighting, Boston Highway Trunk Road and Tunnel, Wireless Network Expansion, Iraq Post-War Reconstruction, Hong Kong International Airport, Hurricane Katrina Disaster Assistance, Jubail Industrial City, Cleanup of Three Mile Island Nuclear Leak, San Francisco Metro, Qatar International Airport, etc.