Brown &Root joins Intecsa

Brown & Root and Intecsa of Spain have been awarded a contract for the design and management of the next particle accelerator at the European particle physics laboratory at Geneva.

The European Organisation for Nuclear Research is investing œ1.3 billion in the Large Hadron Collider.

The latest collider will be housed in 27km of tunnels 100m under the Leman Plain near Geneva.

The collider will occupy space vacated by earlier projects, but additional underground and surface installations are needed for the next experiments.

This will entail significant civil engineering work, including three large span caverns and around 5km of new tunnels.