Part of the Berkeley Innovation Zone in downtown Berkeley, the building will provide modern laboratory and flexible scale-up space for campus faculty and researchers, as well as campus-affiliated entrepreneurs and their collaborators, to incubate startup companies that provide solutions for energy and the environment.
An existing parking structure will be replaced as part of a broader effort to compensate for parking spaces lost to new construction. Although this project will not increase campus parking capacity, it will help maintain existing capacity and provide much-needed upgrades to an aging structure.
Two campus properties have been identified for new solar photovoltaic (PV) installations that significantly increase existing campus on-site solar power generation.
