TITLE

CONSTRUCTION WEEK

PUB. DATE

July 2002

SOURCE

ENR: Engineering News-Record;Jul2002, Vol. 249 Issue 1, p7

SOURCE TYPE

Trade Publication

DOC. TYPE

Article

ABSTRACT

Reports developments in construction industry in the U.S. as of July 1, 2002. Closures of the first industrial-scale nuclear power plant; Approval of million cash and stock acquisition offer by W.S. Atkins; Election on the military construction appropriations bill.

ACCESSION #

7182488

Tags: CONSTRUCTION industry;  BUSINESS failures;  NUCLEAR power plants

 

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