Schedule evolution during the life-time of the LHC project

Author

Barbero-Soto, E. ; Foraz, K. ; Gaillard, H. ; Hauviller, C. ; Weisz, S.

Author_Institution

CERN, Geneva

fYear

2007

fDate

25-29 June 2007

Firstpage

1592

Lastpage

1594

Abstract

The Large Hadron Collider Project was approved by the CERN Council in December 1994. The CERN management opted from the beginning of the project for a very aggressive installation planning based on a just-in-time sequencing of all activities. This paper aims to draw how different factors (technical development, procurement, logistics and organization) have impacted on the schedule evolution through the lifetime of the project. It describes the cause effect analysis of the major rescheduling that occurred during the installation of the LHC and presents some general conclusions potentially applicable in other projects.

Keywords

beam handling techniques; cryogenics; installation; ion accelerators; proton accelerators; storage rings; synchrotrons; CERN; Cryogenic Line Installation; Large Hadron Collider Project; aggressive installation planning; first general co-ordination schedule; spatial integration; Cause effect analysis; Civil engineering; Cryogenics; Delay; Large Hadron Collider; Logistics; Mexico Council; Procurement; Project management; Scheduling;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Particle Accelerator Conference, 2007. PAC. IEEE

Conference_Location

Albuquerque, NM

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-0916-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PAC.2007.4440833

Filename

4440833