Buildings

CERN buildings with numbers on a map.

CERN has a large number of buildings for different purposes. Newcomers to CERN often struggle to understand the rational related to the building numbers.

CERN has

• about 703 buildings of all sizes covering a total footprint of 445000 m²,
• about 293 barracks (huts, modular buildings and maritime containers).

This adds up to:

• 1267 floors (excluding roofs and underground),
• about 17 380 premises (excluding roofs and underground) covering a total surface of 672 000 m².

For further details, see https://apex-sso.cern.ch/pls/htmldb_gisdbr/f?p=112:8:17550593577253:.