The Channel Tunnel is a huge construction project, employing over 14,000 people at peak, and costing over <156>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 commentary taken from recent interviews with key project sources.
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The story of this project - the latest in a long line of attempts to build a fixed link across the Channel - really begins early in 1975, with the abject failure of another, completely separate, scheme. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
fixed equipment claim, central service tunnel, tunnel breakthrough, phased opening, tunnel scheme, tunnelling machines, tunnel machine, tunnelling work, tunnelling rates, running tunnel, tunnel boring machines, funding banks, fixed link, commissioning phase, tunnel drive, global claim, tunnel linings, banking syndicate, member contractors, panel ruling, concrete lining, disputes panel, rail tunnel Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Channel Tunnel, Shakespeare Cliff, Channel Expressway, Equity Three, Margaret Thatcher, Nicholas Ridley, Sir Nicholas Henderson, Construction News, British Rail, Taylor Woodrow, Equity Two, House of Commons, Jack Lemley, President Mitterrand, James Sherwood, Lord Pennock, Isle of Grain, Sir Alastair Morton, City of London, Transmanche Link, André Bénard, Financial Times, John Neerhout, Select Committee, Balfour Beatty New!
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The story of this project - the latest in a long line of attempts to build a fixed link across the Channel - really begins early in 1975, with the abject failure of another, completely separate, scheme. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
fixed equipment claim, central service tunnel, tunnel breakthrough, phased opening, tunnel scheme, tunnelling machines, tunnel machine, tunnelling work, tunnelling rates, running tunnel, tunnel boring machines, funding banks, fixed link, commissioning phase, tunnel drive, global claim, tunnel linings, banking syndicate, member contractors, panel ruling, concrete lining, disputes panel, rail tunnel Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Channel Tunnel, Shakespeare Cliff, Channel Expressway, Equity Three, Margaret Thatcher, Nicholas Ridley, Sir Nicholas Henderson, Construction News, British Rail, Taylor Woodrow, Equity Two, House of Commons, Jack Lemley, President Mitterrand, James Sherwood, Lord Pennock, Isle of Grain, Sir Alastair Morton, City of London, Transmanche Link, André Bénard, Financial Times, John Neerhout, Select Committee, Balfour Beatty New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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