Tag: COVID-19
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Planning of annual meeting and CSR’22, including summary of CSR’21 outcome
Following a very successful exercise in 2021, CERNs Council has requested the Cost & schedule reviews of the HL-LHC project to be held annually, a lighter edition alternating every second year with a full project review. The 2022 – a light – edition has been scheduled for the 14th – 15th November. The CSR’21, first…
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HL-LHC procurement and current market situation
The High-Luminosity Project is finalising the transition from the prototyping phase into full construction mode and most of the activities in view of the series production for the HL-LHC hardware have already started across all work-packages. Procurement is closely following the baseline schedule of the project and is running in parallel to the project milestones.…
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Status of civil engineering works and technical infrastructures
The civil engineering works is progressing well (the detailed progress status is shown in Figure 1). The underground works, including the metallic structures, have been fully completed at Point 1 in October 2021 and Point 5 in February 2022, with only one to two months of delay with respect to the contractual dates mainly due…
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Update on the HL-LHC Project Status – Issue 6
Progress since the last collaboration meeting in October 2021 has been impressive and the project passed several key milestones for the project implementation despite the turbulences caused by COVID-19 and the crisis in Ukraine. Among the many achievements, I would like to highlight here the successful endurance test validation of the MQXFA05 triplet quadrupole magnet…
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Advancements in MQXFA program and endurance test
In May 2022, the HL-LHC AUP project successfully completed an endurance test on an individual magnet (MQXFA05) in vertical position. This step, foreseen for the final cold mass assembly in horizontal position, was anticipated to this intermediate assembly stage to gather more information on the long term behavior of Nb3Sn magnets. The test involved completing…
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Planning of the 2021 Annual Meeting
Due to the COVID-19 restrictions last year, the 2020 annual meeting initially planned to take place in Uppsala had to be postponed and instead the 10th HL-LHC Collaboration Meeting was held in virtual form and limited to plenary sessions. While some uncertainty remains, we are more optimistic this year. We are therefore pleased to announce…
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HL-LHC Industrialization
The High-Luminosity Project is nowadays in the transition from the prototyping phase into full construction mode and most of the activities in view of the series production for the HL-LHC hardware have already started. Procurement and industrialization are closely following the natural evolution of the project and are running in parallel to the project milestones.…
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Preparation of the C&S Review 2021
At the request of the management of CERN, four extensive Cost and Schedule Reviews (CSR) of both the LIU and the HL-LHC projects were carried out in March 2015, October 2016, March 2018, and November 2019. An international panel of experts, headed by the CERN Machine Advisory Committee chairman and composed by the CMAC members…
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Update on Collaboration agreements and report from the Collaboration Board at the last Annual Meeting
The still unresolved COVID-19 pandemic, which defined the year 2020, has unsurprisingly had an impact on our collaborations. However, the impact appears to be contained to a few months, with delays that can be reabsorbed and are also partially mitigated by the decision taken after the 2019 C&SR to delay the start of LS3 by…
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Status of civil engineering works
In spite of the perturbation related to the COVID-19 pandemic, the civil engineering works is progressing well. Figure 1 shows the civil engineering status. At Point 1, the final lining of the underground structures is fully completed and the installation of metallic structures, concrete modules, separation walls and safe rooms in the cavern and in…