Engineering places cern

THE GREAT THING about engineering is that you can do it anywhere – on Mars, in Swindon, even in the bath. Arguably, the whole world is engineered. Yet every profession has its great sites, whose stories bring out the very best in us and so continue the tradition. Nowhere is this truer than in the series of underground bunkers straddling the Swiss-French border that are home to the European nuclear physics research centre CERN.