Managing complex projects [ Return towards Our competences ]

The teams at Air Liquide are capable of managing complex, large-scale scientific and technological projects and more often than not in a multi-cultural environment.

A dedicated team is set up for as long as is needed to see the project through to a successful conclusion. Management and project management competences are identified to meet the efficiency and quality objectives specific to the industrial requirement.

Hadi Moussavi, Cryogenics Business manager

At the CERN in Geneva, the completion of the cryogenics line to supply superfluid helium to the superconducting magnets of the LHC particle accelerator is a good illustration of this large-scale project management know-how. Our teams have coordinated and supervised the manufacture of the 3,000 components in 5 workshops over 4 European countries: France, Spain, Italy and Portugal.For 22 months, 70 of our colleagues from a dozen different professional backgrounds worked 100 meters underground, in a tunnel with a circumference of 27 kilometers. With no spatial landmarks, no system of reference to the surface and with no GPS, they connected the 300 points on the line to the LHC magnets, with an assembly tolerance level, on some components, of 0.2%, in 3 dimensions. Just some of the dramatic statistics that give an idea of the scale of this exceptional project, a veritable industrial program in its size and complexity.