Power's On, Final Segment’s Under Way as Three Gorges Forges Forward
China, received the prestigious Friendship Award for his work from 1999-2002 as a concrete quality advisor on the project.
"The batch plant operators sent a load of off-spec concrete to the dam face one day," he recalls. "When the project manager found out, the batch plant guys were bused to the dam face, where they removed the concrete, a huge amount, by hand, with everybody watching. It never happened again."