The Handling Engineering (HE) Group prepares, organizes and coordinates all transport and handling operations for the CERN Accelerators and Experiments as well as the transport of thousands of conventional items, chemical and radioactive products per year.

The logistics is the backbone of any project or enterprise because it transforms strategic plans into tangible results by ensuring the right resources reach the right place at the right time.

The Group is specialized in the design, integration and feasibility studies related to transport and handling operations. Both standard industrial and custom-built transport and handling equipment is being procured, installed and commissioned.

The Group manages and maintains all the industrial transport, handling and lifting equipment including lifts to ensure the perfect performance all along its lifecycle.     

With the accelerator complex deep underground and about 700 buildings on surface, both passenger and goods lifts are very important. The HE Group is responsible for the purchase, installation and maintenance of all lifts.