UC Berkeley Dedicates Li Ka Shing Center for Biomedical and Health Sciences

The University of California, Berkeley dedicated the $267 million Li Ka Shing Center for Biomedical and Health Sciences in October of 2011. Designed by Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Partnership, the 200,000-gsf, five-story facility provides 30 flexible research labs, a teaching lab, lecture halls, seminar rooms, a brain imaging center, and biocontainment space. An animal research laboratory and vivarium is located on the basement level. The center houses the Henry H. Wheeler Jr. Brain Imaging Center, the Henry Wheeler Center for Emerging and Neglected Diseases, and a $78.6 million, 59,600-gsf stem cell research facility. Construction began on the Li Ka Shing Center for Biomedical and Health Sciences in 2008. The value of the construction contract awarded to general contractor McCarthy Building Companies was $160 million. Occupancy is expected in January of 2012.