JBEI Takes Top Floor at EmeryStation East

EMERYVILLE, CA-The 65,000-sf top floor of Wareham Development’s 245,000-sf EmeryStation East laboratory office building will be home to the Joint BioEnergy Institute, a new $125 million U.S. Department of Energy research partnership. The JBEI signed a five-year renewable lease; it is expected to begin occupying the space in March as tenant improvements are completed and be fully moved in by May.

The Joint BioEnergy Institute is a partnership is led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, which conducts unclassified scientific research for DOE and is managed by the University of California. JBEI’s mission is to speed the development of renewable biofuels – liquid fuels derived from the solar energy stored in plant biomass. Other partners include the DOE’s Sandia and Lawrence Livermore national laboratories, the UC Berkeley and Davis campuses, and the Carnegie Institution.