Facilities

Engineer’s map of Northside. Click map for a full-size imageBerkeley Engineering, the second largest college at UC Berkeley, conducts research, instructional and administrative activities in more than a dozen buildings on the Berkeley campus, utilizing well over one million square feet of space. The college also has extensive large-scale engineering research facilities, including one of the world’s largest earthquake simulators, located at the 170-acre Richmond Field Station site about seven miles northwest of campus.

From state-of-the-art research laboratories to student study centers and libraries, these facilities help support the academic mission of Berkeley Engineering. These are the spaces where bold, new ideas are formed, tested and reinvented. They are where students and researchers gather to challenge conventional beliefs and methods.

Below is brief description of Berkeley Engineering’s primary facilities. Click on a thumbnail for a larger photo.

Bechtel Engineering Center

Engineering Student Services, Kresge Engineering Library, Sibley Auditorium, Trefethen Terrace. Built in 1980.

Cory Hall

Electrical engineering & computer sciences departmental offices and the electrical engineering division of EECS, Swarm Lab. Built in 1950.

Davis Hall

Civil & environmental engineering department, Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center, structural and earthquake engineering labs. Built in 1968.

Etcheverry Hall

Departments of mechanical engineering, nuclear engineering and industrial engineering & operations research. Built in 1964.

Hearst Memorial Mining Building

Materials science and engineering department, Berkeley Institute of Design. Built in 1907; major restoration completed in 2002.

Hesse Hall

Mechanical engineering, BEST Lab. Built in 1924.

Jacobs Hall

Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation. Built in 2015.

McLaughlin Hall

College dean and administrative offices, Institute of Transportation Studies. Built in 1931.

O’Brien Hall

Environmental engineering, Berkeley Water Center. Built in 1959.

Soda Hall

The computer sciences division of EECS, RISELab. Built in 1994.

Stanley Hall

Bioengineering department, QB3, Center for Computational Biology, Biomolecular Nanotechnology Center. Built in 2007.

Sutardja Dai Hall

CITRIS (Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society), EECS faculty and labs, Banatao Auditorium, Marvell Nanofabrication Lab. Built in 2009.

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Facilities master plan (2002) PDF download