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IARC Groundbreaking Ceremony
January 31, 2012
Meyer Tool attended the groundbreaking ceremony for Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory’s Illinois Accelerator Research Center (IARC).
A new state-of-the-art 42,000 square foot facility on Fermilab grounds has been planned for the advancement of accelerator research, education and industrialization. IARC is intended to act as an incubator locus, with the scientific, education and industrial communities collaborating. It is expected that this early collaboration will accelerate and enhance the process of discovery to practical application. This partnership will encourage breakthroughs in accelerator technology and its commercial and industrial application in energy and the environment, medicine, industry, national security and discovery science. The center will partner with local universities to be used as a training facility for our next generation of scientists and engineers. Partnering with industry will create new high-tech jobs.
Meyer Tool president, Eileen Cunningham, attended the official groundbreaking ceremony which took place at Fermilab on December 16, 2011. The event was hosted by Fermilab Director Pier Oddone. Bill Brinkman and Jim Gilcrest attended from the Department of Energy as well as several state officials including Warren Ribley, Director of the Illinois Department of Commerce and Industry.
Funds for the Illinois Accelerator Research Center are being provided by a grant from the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity, a direct contribution in federal funds and funding from the DOE who will fund Fermilab to refurbish an existing heavy industrial building to incorporate into the IARC complex.
More information on the IARC facility is available at http://www.fnal.gov/pub/iarc/.
A new state-of-the-art 42,000 square foot facility on Fermilab grounds has been planned for the advancement of accelerator research, education and industrialization. IARC is intended to act as an incubator locus, with the scientific, education and industrial communities collaborating. It is expected that this early collaboration will accelerate and enhance the process of discovery to practical application. This partnership will encourage breakthroughs in accelerator technology and its commercial and industrial application in energy and the environment, medicine, industry, national security and discovery science. The center will partner with local universities to be used as a training facility for our next generation of scientists and engineers. Partnering with industry will create new high-tech jobs.
Meyer Tool president, Eileen Cunningham, attended the official groundbreaking ceremony which took place at Fermilab on December 16, 2011. The event was hosted by Fermilab Director Pier Oddone. Bill Brinkman and Jim Gilcrest attended from the Department of Energy as well as several state officials including Warren Ribley, Director of the Illinois Department of Commerce and Industry.
Funds for the Illinois Accelerator Research Center are being provided by a grant from the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity, a direct contribution in federal funds and funding from the DOE who will fund Fermilab to refurbish an existing heavy industrial building to incorporate into the IARC complex.
More information on the IARC facility is available at http://www.fnal.gov/pub/iarc/.
