1. Current Status Future Progress Monitoring
TA1 Gas Section Work
Current Status
Future Progress Monitoring

2. Ongoing work AICE TPC: CMS Distribution:
Software tests have started.
CMS Distribution:
We had a problem with some NBR joints -> they were damaged due to “over compression”. The modification is ongoing. Finished by Feb. 04
RPC Endcap racks will be finished in Dec.
Mixer Construction starting Jan. (+ 1 month)
ATLAS Construction starting March (+ 2 month)
Hold ups in validation of components
Component cleaning with EST is not operational (at earliest March 03) (+ 6 month)
New Lab Bldg 164 finished in Feb 04.

3. Milestones

4. Simple Manpower Calculation
Note: This estimates accounts only the labor for rack assembly and installation. Engineering and physicist manpower is not included.
Manpower
Estimate [man-years]
Work completed
[man-years]
Remaining
Work
ATLAS 9
(without TRT)
0.2
8.8
CMS 8
3.5
4.5
ALICE
6.5
2.0
LHCb
2.9
(without Rich’s)
Total
26.4
5.7
20.7
The remaining 21.2 man-years have to be completed until mid 2006 (in 2.5 years), that means every 6 months we must complete work for the equivalent of ~4.0 man-years.
At the moment we are a factor 2 to 3 below, but the manpower
will increase over the next months.

5. Proposal for Progress Monitoring
Collect all the schedule data from the 4 experiments (ongoing)
Define a few system specific milestones for each experiments.
Define some milestones related to the module construction.
Monitor the amount of work completed in periods of 6 months.
By March 2004 we can have revised schedule and detailed proposal for the progress reporting.

6. This Requires some further Clarifications:
Reducing the non LHC work to < 1man-year/year. (was 2.5 my’s in 2002, and 1.5my’s in 2003)
User requirements (design Documents) shall be approved documents in EDMS.
Modifications will require “ECR”
Our team must reduce the installation work in the pits to the minimum possible (example: CMS)
Bottlenecks (e.g. cleaning, component validation, mechanical engineering) in the construction must addressed and removed.
QC program put in place.