Tag: Civil engineering

  • You see an empty field? We see an “Open Sky Laboratory”!

    You see an empty field? We see an “Open Sky Laboratory”!

    Solutions proposed in the Future Circular Collider “Mining the Future” competition will now be evaluated in a 10 000 square metre “Open Sky Laboratory”

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  • Balancing preservation with modernisation

    Ageing buildings, sustainable ambitions and 9500 ServiceDesk tickets in 2023 so far – here’s how the Site and Civil Engineering department defines site consolidation priorities

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  • 92 companies from across CERN Member and Associate Member States took part in CERN’s thematic forum on civil engineering

    CERN opened its doors to a variety of companies for the first CERN Civil Engineering Business Forum, ushering in CERN’s new industry-specific networking strategy

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  • CERN Science Gateway: architecture at the service of knowledge

    CERN Science Gateway: architecture at the service of knowledge

    Science Gateway, the most recent of CERN’s iconic buildings, is the latest in a long line of innovative architectural concepts aiming to bring different communities together around scientific research

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  • CERN’s Building 60 to be restored to its former glory

    CERN’s Building 60 to be restored to its former glory

    One of the original buildings of the Meyrin campus – Building 60 – is showing its age, and is about to undergo a two-and-a-half-year restoration

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  • Civil-engineering work for the major upgrade of the LHC completed

    Civil-engineering work for the major upgrade of the LHC completed

    CERN celebrates the completion of the civil-engineering work for the High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC), the major upgrade of its flagship collider, the LHC

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  • Building 180’s metamorphosis

    Building 180’s metamorphosis

    The renovation that was completed in 2022 has transformed the appearance of CERN’s second-biggest building in terms of surface area while also improving its energy performance

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  • Completion of the final civil-engineering works at HL-LHC Point 1: A new CERN facility is born

    The construction of the last surface buildings for HL-LHC Point 1, including the underground connections to the HL-LHC cavern, is now complete

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  • Winner of the “Mining the Future” competition announced

    Winner of the “Mining the Future” competition announced

    From brick-building to online flow analyses, ideas abound for sustainable reuse of excavated material from a tunnel for a potential future CERN facility thanks to the “Mining the Future” competition held as part of the FCC Innovation Study.

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  • Building work for CERN’s new data centre in Prévessin begins

    Building work for CERN’s new data centre in Prévessin begins

    On Friday, 22 April, a ceremony was held to mark the beginning of construction of CERN’s new energy-efficient data centre

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