2.1: Risk assessment and mitigation plan

The construction of ESS is as unique as the ESS itself; this new next generation spallation source is being built on a greenfield site, physically located in Sweden and Denmark. For both countries, the experience of building research infrastructures of this scale is new. To build ESS, most of the necessary skills for its development need to be imported through In-kind Contributions (hereafter IKC) from participating institutes and companies in the member states. The IKC approach is intended to foster collaborations between national academia and industry, representing the entire supply chain.

The mission for the ESS is the construction of the world’s leading neutron source for material research. In order to achieve this mission it is necessary to build an ESS Organisation with the necessary skills to oversee the project and support its Partners with the capability to manage and integrate IKC into a one highly integrated machine. This heavy reliance on IKC from many partners, poses significant challenges in terms of the management of the technologies, interoperability, integration, quality and timeliness of delivery/construction/operation for a complex and technologically advanced project like ESS.

The ESS has fully recognised the risks associated with IKC and has taken necessary steps to handle and minimise them. To meet these needs, the ESS has developed a Risk Management Policy, which is based on three documents, including the ESS Risk Management Policy [1], the ESS Risk
Management Process [2] and the ESS Risk Management Plan [3] as well as the risk register for the entire facility, which are described in further detail below.

The risks associated with IKC are analysed on different levels: High-level ESS risks associated with IKC for ESS Management, IK Risks to be held by the Individual Projects Accelerator, Target, NSS, as well as for the risks for IKC Partners across Europe and the successful implementation of IKCs.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.17199/BRIGHTNESS.D2.1