civil engineering

16 results

Enhancing safety: improving seismic risk assessments

How a novel methodology helps to improve simulations of the impact of earthquakes on complex research infrastructures

News
Engineering
02 May, 2024

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”

News
Accelerators
14 March, 2024

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

Opinion
Engineering
09 October, 2023
Engineering
Opinion
09 October, 2023

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

News
Knowledge sharing
18 July, 2023
Knowledge sharing
News
18 July, 2023

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

News
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

News
At CERN
18 January, 2023
At CERN
News
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

News
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.

News
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

News
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

News
At CERN
23 November, 2021
At CERN
News
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

News
At CERN
28 September, 2021
At CERN
News
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

News
At CERN
15 September, 2021