The 6th HL-LHC Collaboration Board took place during the 6th HL-LHC Annual Meeting in November 2016, jointly organized by CEA and CERN in Paris, France.
The 2017 Chamonix workshop featured three joint sessions between the HL-LHC and the LIU project. The main observations from Chamonix 2017 relevant for the HL-LHC project were the following ones.
The implementation of the EVM (Earned Value Management) system for the HL-LHC project was ready for the 2nd Cost & Schedule Review (CSR) that was held in October 2016.
The third edition of the HiLumi Industry Day took place in Warrington, a few minutes away from Daresbury Laboratory, in May 2017. This two-day event jointly organised by CERN and STFC gathered some 200 participants from 17 European countries.
The key highlights of the Civil Engineering work include the completion of the preliminary design of the civil engineering works at Point 1 and Point 5 at the end of 2016 by the external Consultants.
WP17 Infrastructure, Logistics and Civil Engineering
The 2018 Chamonix workshop featured three sessions for the HL-LHC project. The sessions at Chamonix provided the first chance for a technical and performance review of the project following the re-baselining in 2016.
Two contracts for the civil engineering works were adjudicated by the Finance Committee of March 2018 to a consortium MARTI TUNNELBAU, MARTI ÖSTERREICH and MARTI DEUTSCHLAND for the Point 1 works
WP17 Infrastructure, Logistics and Civil Engineering
The construction of the 5.5-m long 11T dipole prototype was completed in May this year after several years of intense work dedicated to the development and optimisation of the special tooling, and of the related manufacturing and inspection procedures.
The 3rd Cost & Schedule Review of the projects HL-LHC and LIU was held at CERN on 26th – 28th of March 2018. As usual, the panel is composed by the CMAC (CERN Machine Advisory Committee) members with the addition of a few other international experts
Following the re-baselining exercise for the HL-LHC project in June 2016, the HL-LHC project implemented several scope changes ith respect to the PDR that was issued at the end of the EU funded HiLumi Design Study.
