John Neerhout, Executive Vice-President of Bechtel Group, talks about the building of the Channel Tunnel connecting Britain and France on October 5, 1995

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Title John Neerhout, Executive Vice-President of Bechtel Group, talks about the building of the Channel Tunnel connecting Britain and France on October 5, 1995
Description The speaker of this lecture is John Neerhout, Jr., an executive vice president, director, and senior partner of Bechtel Group, Inc. (BGI). In February 1990, Neerhout served in the United Kingdom as project chief executive for Eurotunnel, owner of the Channel Tunnel. In this lecture, Neerhout talks about the history and challenges of the Channel Tunnel transport project, a tunnel that connects Britain and France. According to Neerhout, it is one of the largest private construction projects on record and was dreamed about for over 250 years starting with Napoleon. Diagrams and photographs are shown on the screen to accompany the speech. A short informative video about the Eurotunnel is shown afterwards. Finally, there is a question and answer session. Speakers: John Neerhout; introduction by Greg Thompson (Assistant director of special collections for the Marriott Library), Sarah Michalak (Director of Libraries), Arthur K. Smith (president of the University of Utah)
Date 1995-10-05
Spatial Coverage University of Utah, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States
Subject University of Utah--Alumni; Science, Technology; Technology, Industry; Engineering; Lectures; Libraries--Special collections--Endowments; Channel Tunnel (Coquelles, France, and Folkestone, England); Civil engineering; Railroad tunnels; Underwater tunnels; Railroad travel; Transit, International
Keywords English Channel, Chunnel
Collection Number and Name A0214 William R. and Erlyn Gould Distinguished Lecture on Technology and the Quality of Life Series video recordings
Collection Name Gould Lecture Series
Holding Institution Multimedia Archives, Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
Genre VHS
Format video/mp4
Extent 01:21:41
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Finding Aid https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv22717/
ARK ark:/87278/s6vade8s
Setname uum_avac
ID 2528060
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6vade8s
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