The Gateway

Status

Project Phase:
Construction

Anticipated Completion:
2025-2026 Academic Year

Details

Lead Design Architect:
Weiss/Manfredi

Executive Architect:
Gensler

General Contractor:
Turner Construction

Project Location:
Campus Park (map)

Project Inquiries:
capitalstrategies@berkeley.edu
(510) 495-5786

Visit our Environmental Review page to access applicable California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) notices and documents for UC Berkeley capital projects.

Construction Updates:

November 13, 2023

A continuous concrete pour will take place on Tuesday, November 21, 2023. Crews will arrive at the project site starting at 2 a.m., and pumping should commence around 3 a.m. All trucks and pumps will be within the project site. The continuous pour will take approximately 15 – 16 hours, and should be complete in the late evening.

The Gateway will be the new home of the College of Computing, Data Science, and Society (CDSS), the first new college at UC Berkeley in 50 years.

CDSS brings together data science education, the School of Information, the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, the Department of Statistics, the Berkeley Institute for Data Science, the Center for Computational Biology, D-Lab, and the Computational Precision Health program.

The 367,270-square-foot building will be on Hearst Avenue at Arch Street, a prominent location of arrival and entry to the UC Berkeley campus. The Gateway is a collaborative space where approximately 1,325 faculty, students, researchers, and staff will work together to create accessible and equitable educational opportunities and catalyze groundbreaking research to meet society’s greatest challenges.

The facility includes a lower-level convening space, followed by five-floors of dedicated research laboratories, classrooms and auditoriums, seminar and conference rooms, offices, social kitchens, a public café, and a rooftop event space.

Construction of the Gateway began in September 2022, and the building is anticipated to open during the 2025-2026 academic year.

Imagine the Gateway at UC Berkeley

(Video by Stephen McNally and Stefanie Kalem)