Berkeley, Calif.
UC Berkeley began construction in March 2003 on the new $162.3-million Stanley Hall. Part of the California Institute for Quantitative Biomedical Research (QB3), the facility will provide 275,000 sf on eight floors above ground and three floors below ground. Replacing the existing Stanley Hall, the interdisciplinary facility will not belong to a single department but instead will bring together biology, chemistry, physics, computer science, and engineering researchers. Slated for completion in 2006, the building will house the only 900 megahertz NMR machine on the west coast and a forty laboratory Bio-Nano Center with nanofabrication devices. The facility is being constructed by San Francisco-based McCarthy.
