Tag: Civil engineering
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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
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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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
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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Henri Laporte (1928 – 2020)
Henri Laporte(1928 – 2020) — One of the key figures in the construction of LEP passed away on 18 May 2020. Henri Laporte led the civil-engineering work for the Large Electron-Positron Collider in the 1980s, the biggest construction project for fundamental research ever undertaken and which included the construction of the 27 km tunnel that