IPAC'23 - 14th International Particle Accelerator Conference

FAIR Project Management Office as strategy and services department for a mega-project in the scientific environment

TUPM081

9 May 2023, 16:30

2h

Sala Mosaici 2

Poster Presentation MC4.A24: Accelerators and Storage Rings, Other Tuesday Poster Session

Speaker

Natalya Winters (GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH)

Description

The future Accelerator Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research (FAIR) belongs to the category of international mega-projects and is under construction in Darmstadt, Germany. The FAIR project includes the construction of 24 accelerator and experimental buildings with a total area of about 150,000 m2, as well as 12 sub-projects in the areas of accelerators (pLINAC, SIS100, SuperFRS, p-bar, CR, HESR), experiments (CBM, APPA, NUSTAR, PANDA), installation and commissioning. The management and control of such a project in a very rapidly changing world is a very challenging responsibility and requires specific skills and competences of the project management. In order to steer the FAIR project, a Project Management Office (PMO) was established. This contribution gives short overview of FAIR PMO organization, objectives and describes transition process from classic simple PMO controlling type to highly modern hybrid form of PMO with focus of strategies, expediting and support.