A delegation from the Japan Society of Civil Engineers including its president took to Europe last month to have a look at civil engineering project for large science facilities. They visited CERN and DESY to look at past and current building projects, which they would use as a reference in case ILC is constructed in […]
Coming up: the ECFA Linear Collider Workshop
In a global collaboration most of the personal interactions take place electronically, so our bi-annual linear collider workshops take on extra significance as one of the few opportunities to provide high-bandwidth (face-to-face) communication. For the accelerator community the upcoming Santander Workshop will enable progress in the ILC design to be both examined and where appropriate […]
ARUP tool shortlisted for prestigious prize
Remember the ingenious civil engineering tool that British consultancy ARUP has developed for CERN’s FCC and that is also being used for site-specific planning of the ILC? That thing where you can play around with shafts, tunnels and rock formations without leaving your desk? It’s been shortlisted for a prestigious award, so keep your fingers […]
Physics and football
Working in particle physics can easily fill your day. But there’s always more to life than physics – football, for example. Three core members of the linear collider management team turn out to also be hardcore fans of Sunderland Association Football Club – so much so that one of them, John Osborne, founded the Sunderland Swiss […]
Back to the future
Technology transfer between FCC and ILC
This tool offers a (very large) set of parameters and geological data such as soil composition, hydrography, environmental and sociological constraints and programmable risk factors data. You play with them – key in a tilt of, say, one percent or move points north or south or put the whole thing deeper underground – and the […]
The ILC design evolves
The ILC baseline design as described in the Technical Design Report and its associated cost estimate was finalised in 2012. Since that time the design has been relatively static while the global high-energy physics community absorbed and responded to this information. During the past 12 months, significant progress in Japan has resulted in the choice […]
Guideline for ILC civil engineering completed
On 13 March 2014, a colloquium to mark the completion of the guideline for the civil engineering of the International Linear Collider was held at KEK laboratory, Tsukuba, Japan. A total of 47 scientists and engineers cerebrated the accomplishment. The guideline was handed over to Atsuto Suzuki, KEK’s Director General, by Hiroshi Chikahisa, chair of […]
Japanese civil engineers dig deep in Europe
A contribution from the Global Design Effort's civil engineering team
Ten members from the Japanese Society for Civil Engineering’s committee for civil works for future ILC facilities came to Europe in February to look at current civil engineering projects like CERN’s LINAC4 and the European XFEL in Hamburg and to discuss administrative challenges. By the end of March next year, the committee will publish draft […]
Japanese civil engineers visit DESY and CERN
A delegation from the Japanese Society of Civil Engineering visited the European labs CERN and DESY this month to learn about how the laboratories run their projects. They are pictured here about to enter the tunnel under construction for the European XFEL. Read more about the visit in a future issue of ILC NewsLine.