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project has involved 2,800 professionals, working in 19 offices across five countries, and 70,000
construction workers.
Bechtel has also worked with Reliance on the K6–D6 Gas Project, a subsea gas development
project in the Bay of Bengal involving 22 wells in water up to 4,000 feet deep, 22–25 miles offshore;
seven pipelines routed up the Nilarevu River; and an onshore gas terminal south of
Kakinada to receive and process gas for shipment by pipeline to Mumbai.
Nanocity: A Sustainable Urban Vision
Sabeer Bhatia likes simplicity and accessibility. Those two principles
have guided his work as a technology entrepreneur, as an
angel investor and, in the last several years, as visionary and development
partner behind the 11,000-acre Nanocity project in the
Himalayan foothills between Delhi and Chandigarh.
Born in 1969 in Chandigarh, Bhatia attended the Birla Institute of
Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani, but left before finishing
when he qualified for a transfer scholarship to Caltech in 1988.
“When I came to the U.S. for an education, my first goal was to get
my undergraduate degree and go back,” he recalls. “But by the
time I got it, I found I wanted to study more.” In the course of pursuing
a master’s degree in electrical engineering at Stanford, he
took a class in business for engineers and came face to face with
Silicon Valley.
“We were introduced to entrepreneurs who presented case studies
for Apple, Sun, and Harvard Graphics and told us what motivated
them to start,” he says. “They were to us like actors; they were role
models—revered.” Bhatia also shared a lab at Stanford with
Yahoo! founders Jerry Yang and David Filo. “I was on the path to
earn a PhD, join the academy, and become a research scientist.
Instead I went to Apple and worked for a year.”
He then jumped to FirePower Systems, a firm formed in 1993 by
employees from Apple spin-off NeXT Computer Systems to build
business workstations based on the same IBM PowerPC architecture
that ran Apple computers. FirePower quickly found itself in
direct competition with both Motorola, which designed and supplied
Apple’s chips, and an ascendant Intel Corp. By 1995, it was
becoming clear that Intel was winning the commercial microprocessor
war. At the same time, emergence of mouse technology
and the graphic user interface of the World Wide Web held out
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