WW reported that a remaining open issues concerns the cash flow. The funding from the White Paper being limited to 55 MCHF, the additional cost coming from the new building (about 35 MCHF, not foreseen in the White Paper) will have to be covered with CERN funds in the years 2012-13. It has been requested to revise our procurement schedule to see if some items can be moved towards the end of the project, with delivery in 2011 and payment only in 2012.
WW further reported on the EVM approach for linac4 which will be based on different layers, The work packages are divided in “tasks”, defining general deadlines and budget) subdivided in “Workunits” that define an implementation plan, with dependences, internal milestones and deliverables (see sample EVM file). It is requested to include manpower at the overall Work package level, in principle without the need to indicate names. WW will contact the project management to ask whether this really should be done, since this is already covered in APT and in case of changes both need to be maintained.
Before the end of January, the Workpackage holders should define the tasks inside their Workpackage, attribute the resources (material cost per year per task, personnel per year per Workpackage or per task) and come with a first definition of the Workunits inside the tasks.
A first proposal of the project management for the splitting of the Work packages into tasks was presented. It was agreed that the proposal (LINAC4-3.1)should be updated by WW for discussion during our next meeting.
From 29-30 January 2007 will be the the first meeting of the Linac4 Advisory Committee, see programme, and WW will give a presentation on the Booster Injection Modifications.
JB showed a preliminary proposal from AB-PO for a possible pulsed power converter for the BS magnets. BG will have a look if the performance is still sufficient.