Video: Bechtel on the Benefits Infrastructure Brings to Global Communities

The increasing expectation that infrastructure projects will bring wider benefits to societies

Oct 1, 2014

Bechtel’s infrastructure managing director Walker Kimball talks about the increasing expectation that infrastructure projects will bring wider benefits to societies.

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