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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At CERN
20 January, 2023

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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At CERN
18 January, 2023
At CERN
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18 January, 2023

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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At CERN
24 October, 2022

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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Engineering
11 October, 2022

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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Computing
22 April, 2022

New building for the Prévessin site

The new Building 937 in Prévessin, inaugurated on 10 November, becomes an additional centre of the BE-CEM group’s activities

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At CERN
23 November, 2021
At CERN
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23 November, 2021

A quiet revolution is under way at Prévessin

With many developments planned or under consideration, this is the decade of CERN’s Prévessin site

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At CERN
28 September, 2021
At CERN
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28 September, 2021

CERN acquires four new buildings for the High-Luminosity LHC

Four buildings set to house technical infrastructure for the future accelerator were delivered to CERN by contractors between June and September

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At CERN
15 September, 2021

CERN’s Science Gateway takes (tubular) shape

Two months on from the first-stone ceremony, one of Science Gateway’s tubular structures has been installed

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At CERN
31 August, 2021

The High-Luminosity LHC project takes shape at Point 1

The construction of an underground cavern at Point 1, which will house equipment for the High-Luminosity LHC, has been successfully completed

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Accelerators
09 June, 2021

Mining the Future

Join this international competition and submit your ideas for applications that could turn rock excavated during tunnelling for future CERN colliders into a resource

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Engineering
30 April, 2021
Engineering
News
30 April, 2021

Henri Laporte (1928 – 2020)

Obituary
At CERN
03 July, 2020
At CERN
Obituary
03 July, 2020