UC Berkeley Breaks Ground on CITRIS Headquarters

Ground has been broken on the University of California at Berkeley 's $117.5 million, seven-story CITRIS (Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society) facility. The 140,000-sf building will include a large, secure computing center with massive storage capabilities on the two basement floors. The first above-ground floor will house classrooms, with reconfigurable laboratories on floors two through five. The facility will also house a "museum of the future" displaying the technology which CITRIS researchers are working on. As one of four California Insitutes for Science and Innovation, CITRIS will maintain facilities at UC Davis, UC Santa Cruz and UC Merced. The project architects are SmithGroup and Johnson Fain, with Hathaway Dinwiddie Construction of Santa Clara as general contractor. Construction began on the facility in July 2004.