Status of the ATLAS tile hadronic calorimeter production

The status of the construction of the ATLAS TILECAL hadron calorimeter is reported. The various aspects of the construction started at the end of 1998: mechanics, optics, instrumentation, certification and final integration will be presented. At present 80% of the 3 cylinders: 1 barrel and 2 extended barrels is fully instrumented and stored at CERN. Various quality control steps are done during the components production and during the modules instrumentation. An evaluation of the modules uniformity extracted during the final certification using a radioactive /sup 137/Cs source is shown. The status of the electronics production and the modules performance extracted during the calibration with particle beams are described in other talks of this conference presented by M. Varanda, F. Martin and S. Nemecek. (2 refs).