Bechtel has been named the top US contractor for the tenth straight year by Engineering News-Record (ENR), a US trade publication for the construction industry. North American operations accounted for 40% of its 2007 revenue and generated two-thirds of new work. Business was also strong in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Bechtel’s project highlights for 2007 included High Speed 1 in the UK, the first high-speed rail project in the UK and Britain’s first new railway in a century; the Tacoma Narrows Bridge in Washington, the longest new suspension span built in the US in 40 years; Equatorial Guinea LNG, a LNG processing facility that will supply at least 3.4 million tons of energy to the market annually; the Fjarðaál aluminum smelter, Bechtel’s first project in Iceland and the largest private investment in Iceland’s history; and Brown’s Ferry Unit 1 in Alabama, the first nuclear reactor to come into service in more than a decade. The ENR Top 400 Contractors’ list is based on construction revenue.