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Stephen Bechtel Jr., steward of his family’s engineering firm, dies at 95 Emily Langer © Bechtel Stephen D. Bechtel Jr. led his family’s sprawling engineering and construction company for three decades. Stephen D. Bechtel Jr., who led his family’s engineering and construction firm for three decades, expanding an already sprawling operation into an international behemoth with projects including the Channel Tunnel linking Britain and France and Jubail Industrial City in...

Print Stephen Bechtel Jr., the third-generation heir of the Bechtel Corp. construction empire who led its global drive for 30 years and provided President Reagan with key Cabinet members, has died at his home in San Francisco. The company said Bechtel died Monday at 95. No cause of death was given. The Stanford-educated engineer became a billionaire while leading the San Francisco-based firm’s expansion through “mega-projects” in Saudi Arabia, the U.S. and Canada. At 35, he took over as ...