The Channel Tunnel Story
eBook - PDF

The Channel Tunnel Story

  1. 219 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The Channel Tunnel Story

About this book

The Channel Tunnel is a huge construction project, employing over 14, 000 people at peak, and costing over 11 billion of private money. It has succeeded in spite of great financial, political and techncial difficulties, and a fundamentally flawed contract. This book tells the story of the project, based on the coverage in Construction News and with

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Information

Publisher
CRC Press
Year
1994
Edition
1
eBook ISBN
9781482271492
Topic
Architecture
Subtopic
Architecture General

Table of contents

  1. Book Cover
  2. Half-Title
  3. Series Title
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Contents
  7. Preface
  8. Introduction
  9. Key dates
  10. Key facts
  11. 1 The end of a dream
  12. 2 A fait accompli ?
  13. 3 The race for the mandate
  14. 4 Sherwood’s surprise
  15. 5 Concessions and treaties
  16. 6 Money and politics
  17. 7 Planning and designs
  18. 8 Morton takes charge
  19. 9 High risk, high return
  20. 10 The contractors start work
  21. 11 All change at TML
  22. 12 Tragedy strikes
  23. 13 The £1 billion row
  24. 14 Building the channel tunnel
  25. 15 King of the tunnels
  26. 16 TML’s £1.4 billion bill
  27. 17 History man
  28. 18 More talks but no trains
  29. 19 Brussels backs Eurotunnel
  30. 20 Bombardier’s bombshell
  31. 21 Hail to the chief
  32. 22 Site warfare breaks out
  33. 23 The slow train to France
  34. Epilogue
  35. Index

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