Handover of long-range instrument hall signals start of instrument installations at ESS
LUND—Kurt Clausen, Vice-Chair of the ESS Council, John Womersley, ESS Director General, Andreas Schreyer, ESS Director for Science, and Per Smidfelt, Skanska Project Director, together with over 200 scientists and engineers involved in the design and construction of ESS’s world-leading instruments, took part in the key handover ceremony of the experimental hall. The September 9 ceremony marked the transition from civil construction to installation of the instruments.
Many of the attending guests were in Lund to participate in the three-day conference IKON17 (17th In-kind Contributions Meeting for Neutron Science for Instruments), that gathers representatives from ESS and its many in-kind partners to discuss instrument construction and progress. Most of ESS’s instruments will be delivered as in-kind contributions, being developed and built at research institutes throughout Europe as part of the member countries’ funding of ESS.
”The handover of the Long Instrument Hall is an important milestone on the path to delivering first science at ESS in 2023,” said John Womersley, ESS Director General. “We have moved from construction of the building to the first installations of scientific equipment, working closely with our partners in the member countries who are constructing most of this instrumentation. Together we are strongly determined to make ESS a landmark of European science.”
