Tag: WP1 Project Management
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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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Report from the TCC
The HL-LHC Technical Coordination Committee has continued its work for the follow-up and evolution of the technical baseline of the project in a fully remote format. While the current restrictions still prohibit in-person meetings, the remote format has been allowed more active participation from all collaborators, which is an important asset for the current project…
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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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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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COVID-19, CERN and HL-LHC
After having observed the first cases of illness in Italy and the following isolation measures, the coronavirus SARS-Cov-2, causing the severe respiratory illness COVID-19, became a subject of major concern in Europe during February 2020. The authorities reacted with public information campaigns with a focus on physical distance, hand hygiene and when to consult a…
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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…