Part of the Berkeley Innovation Zone in downtown Berkeley, the building will provide modern laboratory and flexible scale-up space for campus faculty and researchers, as well as campus-affiliated entrepreneurs and their collaborators, to incubate startup companies that provide solutions for energy and the environment.
A small office building and adjacent surface parking lot will be replaced by a new residential facility that provides 1,625 beds for first-year undergraduate students, and a 500-seat dining commons.
Over the next decade, a series of projects will transform the campus heating, cooling and power systems, into an electrified and renewable energy microgrid that will largely eliminate fossil fuel combustion and related on-campus carbon emissions.
