01/31/2023 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 01/31/2023 03:17
FAIR mega construction project
The FAIR particle accelerator facility in Darmstadt is one of the world's largest construction projects for cutting-edge international research. Among other things, an underground accelerator ring tunnel 1,100 meters long, laboratories and other operational and utility buildings are being built on an area of around 150,000 square meters. The transfer building is the most complex building in the facility. It is the central hub of the facility beamline. The 1,100-meter tunnel for the SIS100 particle accelerator will also be up to 17 meters underground. Adjacent to the accelerator tunnel itself will be a supply tunnel that will house, among other things, lines for electricity and liquid helium, space for power supply equipment and facilities for controlling ion beam quality.
An integrated construction schedule was developed for the multinational, highly complex mega-construction project, closely coordinating civil engineering, accelerator development and construction, and scientific experiments. Construction began in the summer of 2017.
Facts and figures on construction
2 million m3 of earth
...will be moved - as much as for 5,000 single-family homes
600,000 m3 of concrete
...will be used - as much as 8 times the size of the Frankfurt soccer stadium
65.000 t steel
...are used - the equivalent of nine Eiffel Towers