BSCE 1951 - CCEFollowing two years active duty in Korea with the Combat Engineers, Chuck Lacey returned to the U.S. and started a 42-year career with Bechtel. He progressed through technical and managerial positions to become, in 1976, vice president – responsible senior Bechtel officer for the Jubail Industrial City in Saudi Arabia, which at the time was the world’s largest industrial infrastructure program, valued at $25 billion. Lacey served as senior vice president in the company’s London office, and subsequently as senior vice president – deputy division manager responsible for project operations and groups executing major power projects in North America, nuclear power projects in Japan and South Korea, and fossil power projects in India, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, and Mexico. After serving as senior vice president for the Los Angeles regional office, Lacey became president of the Middle East Region, Bechtel Group, Inc. in Saudi Arabia, increasing the company’s business, and, at the onset of the Gulf War, organizing successful efforts to contain the massive oil well fires and cleanup of the Arabian Gulf oil spillage.