Hughes, Peter

Mr. Hughes is an experienced project developer, contract negotiator, construction counsel, and claims manager for industrial and heavy infrastructure projects. 

Mr. Hughes has served as Vice President & Chief Counsel of CH2M Hill Constructors, Inc. In this capacity, he provided the legal and risk management framework for the company’s Design/Build/Operate business. While at CH2M Hill, Mr. Hughes was responsible for overseeing international and domestic project development and management for water, wastewater, federal, transportation, and environmental projects. He was also Counsel to the President of the company’s Water Business Group and to the U.S. and Canadian operations managers.

Prior to CH2M Hill, Mr. Hughes was Principal Counsel and Assistant Secretary to Bechtel Corporation. In his 24 years with Bechtel, he was responsible for energy legislative affairs in the Washington Executive Office, then for both fossil-fired and nuclear power projects for the San Francisco and Houston regional power offices. He then spent five years in the London petroleum division, covering offshore oil production projects in the North Sea, Egypt, and Qatar, and refinery and LNG projects in Indonesia. Then, as Principal Counsel for Bechtel Civil, Inc., he was responsible for all legal services for the infrastructure division delivering new transit systems, airport expansions, dam and hydroelectric facilities, port and cargo handling facilities, and municipal and state penal institutions, including substantial project financings.

Representative Projects

• Masdar carbon-neutral city program management, Abu Dhabi 
• Halifax Regional Municipality water treatment plant, Nova Scotia 
• Del Webb water management system, Arizona 
• Manukau Wastewater Services LLC, new wastewater treatment plant and harbor remediation, New Zealand 
• City of Tampa Hillsborough River water treatment plant design/build (DBIA award winner), Florida 
• City of Seattle Cedar River water treatment plant design/build/operate, Washington 
• Southern California Edison contract operations for transmission lines to be sold to State of California 
• U.S. Army utility privatization at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, and Fort Irwin, California 
• City of San Jose and Calpine Energy offsite utility services contract, California 
• BART Extensions Program for regional rapid transit system, San Francisco Bay Area 
• McCarran Airport Expansion, Las Vegas 
• Omniport Napier automated port facility, New Zealand 
• Ankara-Gerede Motorway project, Turkey 
• Aquaculture project, Thailand 
• Statoil Gullfaks B & C offshore oil platforms, Norway 
• Mobil Beryl B offshore oil platform, UK 
• SUCO offshore production platforms, Red Sea, Egypt 
• North Field Gas Project, Qatar 
• Balikpapan Refinery, Borneo, Indonesia 
• Badak LNG project, Borneo, Indonesia 
• Hitachi & Mitsubishi Heavy Industries nuclear services agreements, Japan 
• Williams Field Services gas-fired cogeneration plant, New Mexico 
• WPPSS nuclear power units, takeover contract, Washington 
• Trojan Nuclear Power Plant, Oregon 
• Gulf States Utilities coal-fired power station, Louisiana