Tag: Civil engineering

  • 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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  • Henri Laporte (1928 – 2020)

    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

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