Tag: Schedule
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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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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 the HL-LHC Project Status – Issue 5
The progress since the last collaboration meeting in October 2020 has been truly remarkable and the project successfully passed several key milestones for the project implementation in spite of the COVID-19 restrictions. Among the many achievements, I would like to highlight here the successful validation of two pre-series MQXFA triplet quadrupole magnets by our US…
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Summary of the TCC Day and New Schedule as Agreed on during November Meeting in 2019
In an effort to further enhance the communication and transparency of activities having potential dependencies in terms of schedule or resources on other HL-LHC WPs, a first TCC day was organised on 12th March 2020. The meeting was also the occasion to commonly discuss all further opportunities of descoping and to assess the consequences of…
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COVID-19 Impact on Schedule and Update on Civil Engineering Works
The COVID-19 restrictions have impacted the schedules of the LS2 and of the HL-LHC activities. Concerning the LS2 schedule, the hardware commissioning of LHC should be completed by March 2021 for all sectors except the S67, where the installation of the first 11-T dipole cryo-assembly is foreseen during the first quarter of 2021, postponing the…
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Report from the November Cost & Schedule Review
The 4th Cost & Schedule Review (CSR) of the HL-LHC project was held at CERN from 11th to 13th November 2019. The review panel was composed as usual by CERN Machine Advisory Committee (CMAC) members and ad-hoc experts. The goal of this fourth CSR was to assess the development of the baseline since the first…
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Update on Collaboration Agreements and Report from the Collaboration Board at the Last Annual Meeting
After the last Collaboration Meeting in Fermilab in October 2019, there have been several important developments in collaboration matters. The 2019 LIU/HL-LHC Cost and Schedule Review outcome was very positive with inclusion in the baseline of the various pending options that were all items to be procured via collaboration agreements. That allowed the settlement of…
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Update on the HL-LHC Project Status – Issue 4
Dear HiLumi collaborators, The period following the 9th Collaboration Meeting in Fermilab, 14-17 November 2019, has been exceptionally rich in events. The most striking has certainly been the COVID-19 emergency, with long periods of lockdown almost everywhere. Although work has resumed at CERN and in most laboratories, the consequences go far beyond the lockdown time.…
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Outcome of the 2018 Cost and Schedule review
The 3rd Cost & Schedule Review of the projects HL-LHC and LIU (LHC Injectors Upgrade) was held at CERN on 26th – 28th of March 2018. As usual, the panel is composed by the CMAC (CERN Machine Advisory Committee) members with the addition of a few other international experts as reviewers. The main outcome was…
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Project Planning and EVM
The implementation of the EVM (Earned Value Management) system for the HL-LHC project was ready for the 2nd Cost & Schedule Review (CSR) that was held in October 2016. This tool tracks, among other things, the schedule and cost variances of the project with respect to estimates made by the project team at the time…