DOE has set up specific guidelines for the design and construction process of HEP experiments which it funds, set forth in DOE order 413.3A. A DOE Project is the means by which those guidelines are followed. The overall process has 5 major checkpoints, called Critical Decisions, or CDs. CD-0 marks the formal start of a Project, and CD-4 marks its end. In between are three checkpoints in the design process: CD-1, which approves the conceptual designs; CD-2, which approves the cost and schedule baseline for the selected design; and CD-3, which approves the design completeness and the start of construction. Each of these CD checkpoints corresponds to a DOE-led review of the project. As should be clear from this description, the design process is well scrutinized before construction is approved to start. In short, a Project puts effort into planning the entire design and construction process, set out in a schedule, and then follows the scheduled plan.

The project manager is C. James, Fermilab. Critical Decision 0 (CD-0), marking the formal start of the project, was granted in September 2009.

The Project web pages hold information and links for the collaboration and its Project Managers, and also holds links to the base pages for all reviews - internal reviews, laboratory Director's reviews, and DOE reviews. The Project Home Page has a link in the roll-over menu bar at the top of every page on this site. Links into each of the main sections for each of the three main review types are also in the roll-over menu bar.