The Contractors

by Hugh Ferguson and Mike Chrimes

Fully illustrated in colour, The Contractors, is the first history of the challenges and adventures faced by British civil engineering contractors from their emergence with canal construction in the late-eighteenth century to the present day. Extraordinarily ambitious, largely unrecognised men who built the world's infrastructure - its roads and railways, canals and bridges, docks and harbours, lighthouses and breakwaters, sea works and flood defences,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0727758306
• ISBN13: 9780727758309
• Release Date: December 2013
• Publisher: ICE Publishing
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 3.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 11.0" x 8.6"