Conveners
Civil Engineering
- Timothy Paul Watson (CERN)
This talk offers an overview of the sub-surface civil engineering design for the Future Circular Collider. It encompasses various topics crucial to the project's progress, including feedback from the Mid-Term Review, analysis of the associated cost and schedule impacts and ongoing studies focused on tunnel ventilation and safety. Additionally, case studies drawn from other tunnelling projects...
Following the outcomes of the collaboration between CERN and Fermilab (US Department of Energy), this talk will present the progress on the design and preparation of all 8 FCC surface sites.
The presentation will discuss the various inputs considered to demonstrate the feasibility and adaptability of surface sites in accordance with technical, environmental, and urban constraints. It will...
This presentation will recap the objectives of the Subsurface Site investigations (SSI) and the scope of the original campaign when it was released to tender in October 2023. It will discuss the results of the tender and detail the amendments to the original strategy based on these results and the availability of new geological data since 2023 and present the provisional programme for the SSI....
