Skip to main content

News

Made in Berkeley Lab: A Constellation of 771 Ultra-Precise Holes

Berkeley Lab’s new computer numerical control machine tapping into a large steel plate that will be used to test the integration of ALS-U vacuum systems and accelerator magnets.

Building ATLAS: A 20+ Year Effort

Thomas Johnson (left) and other members of Berkeley Lab's ATLAS project engineering team assemble the carbon fiber support tube for the ATLAS Pixel Detector (April 2004).

Building ATLAS: A dedicated partnership

The ATLAS Pixel Support Tube builders and fabricators, photographed next to the Pixel Support Tube, in the Engineering Division's Mechanical Fabrication Shops (April 2026).

Made in Berkeley Lab: Winding a Novel Closed-Loop Coil Magnet Structure

A completed closed-loop coil showing a continuous strand of Nb-Ti superconducting wire wound around a hexagonal mandrel.

Made in Berkeley Lab: Reverse-Engineering Discontinued Parts

A close up of four brand-new powder-coated chiller end bells sit on a black background.

Berkeley Lab’s Engineering Division Unveils Its New Computer Numerical Control Machine

Made in Berkeley Lab: elegant arcs for superconducting magnets

A computer numerical control (CNC) machine in Berkeley Lab Engineering’s Building 77 traces the intricate groove pattern for a superconducting cable into an aluminum-bronze mandrel.

Made in Berkeley Lab: the plasma chamber at the heart of heavy ion accelerators

A closeup view of the flange for the third-generation VENUS plasma chamber. The device was made in-house by the Engineering Division’s highly skilled technicians.

Made in Berkeley Lab: design and fabrication do the heavy lifting

Close-up view of yellow X-shaped lifting fixture attached to top of equipment rack during crane operation in ALS

Engineering Division employees recognized for their volunteer efforts

Berkeley Lab Deputy Directory Carol Burns and two Engineering Division volunteers

Strategic investments in engineering infrastructure: driving innovation and supporting the evolving needs of scientific research

Partial view of Building B77 with entryway

New Magnets for LHC Upgrade Successfully Pass Halfway Mark

A group of researchers and engineers pose around a magnet

Connect

Our Organization