The Gateway: Project Renderings
Aerial view of the Gateway from Hearst Avenue.
Interior collaborative space looks onto the south courtyard.
View into the Gateway’s south courtyard from the UC Berkeley campus park.
The Gateway features new classrooms, large auditoriums, and seminar and conference rooms throughout the building.
View into a robotics research lab. The Gateway is a collaborative space for faculty, students and researchers drawn from different disciplines, united by their shared interest in utilizing computing and data science to advance the greater good.
Evening view of the rooftop event spaces and outdoor terrace.
Construction Updates
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Summary of current and upcoming construction activities at the Gateway project site: Continuous concrete pours will occur weekly starting the first week of July 2024. To minimize disruption as much as possible, only the necessary amount of concrete will be poured each week while ensuring the structural integrity of the new building. On the days of continuous pours, crews will arrive at the project site at 3 a.m., and pumping will begin around 4 a.m. All trucks and pumps will remain within the project site. Each continuous pour will take approximately 13 to 14 hours and should be completed in the early evening. Please refer to the Letter to Neighbors distributed to residences along Hearst Avenue in late June 2024 for the schedule of pours through the end of August 2024. Please note that the construction schedule is subject to change and may be influenced by various factors, such as the weather. |
Project Background
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.
(Video by Stephen McNally and Stefanie Kalem)
Additional Information:
- UC Regents' vote creates UC Berkeley's first college in 50 years (Berkeley News)
- UC Berkeley College of Computing, Data Science, and Society established (College of CDSS)
- Gateway groundbreaking brings new opportunity for computing, data science (Berkeley News)
- A New Way to Educate, Discover, and Accelerate Impact (Light the Way: The Campaign for Berkeley)