New underground infrastructures and surface buildings at CERN designed with the Eurocodes

The most recent and powerful particle accelerator constructed on the CERN site is the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The LHC consists of a 27-kilometre ring of superconducting magnets with a number of accelerating structures to boost the energy of the particles along the way.

High-Luminosity LHC (HL-LHC) is a project aiming to upgrade the LHC to maintain scientific progress and exploit its full capacity. In order to install the new equipment and move certain components around, the HL-LHC project foresees new underground structures and surface buildings.

The Eurocodes represented the main set of reference norms for the design and assessment of the structural safety for all foreseen surface buildings and underground infrastructures.

Find out more information on CERN’s HL-LHC project here.