A look inside UC Berkeley's new Energy Biosciences Institute building

The University of California, Berkeley, recently completed its $130 million, five-story Energy Biosciences Institute building. The 113,000-square-feet building at at 2151 Berkeley Way will feature modern facilities for scientific research, study and collaboration focusing on turning non-food crops into fuels. The structure, designed by SmithGroupJJRand built by Rudolph and Sletten, also comes with a myriad of green elements such as automated “smart” outside window shades, a lighting control system with building sensors, and an auto-adjusting air exchange system.

Cal's Energy Biosciences Institute starts move into new $130M building

The Energy Biosciences Institute has started to move into a newly finished $130 million building on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley. The EBI is a $500 million public-private joint venture funded by oil company BP plc (NYSE: BP). EBI is a partnership between UC Berkeley, the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. About 300 people are moving into the building over the next six weeks. Admin staff and some laboratory programs are moving first.