Work Set to Start on $162M Biosciences Research Facility

BERKELEY, CA-Construction is set to start on the University of California, Berkeley’s Stanley Biosciences and Bioengineering Facility. A ceremonious groundbreaking is scheduled for Friday, May 30. The $162-million project is scheduled for completion in 2006.

To be built on Gayley Road, adjacent to the campus’s East Gate, the 285,000-sf building will house the Bioengineering, Biotechnology and Quantitative Biomedical Research Institute, better known to those on campus as QB3. The 11 story structure will have eight floors above ground and three below.

The project, which will replace the existing Stanley Hall, is one of the largest building projects the university has undertaken in recent years. The new facility will support seven research themes that will intermingle scientists from a range of disciplines, such as structural biology, bioengineering, chemical biology, computation and theoretical biology, and magnetic imaging.