From north to south, east to west and all the way to the nearby city of Albany, UC Berkeley’s landscape is being transformed this fall by numerous large construction projects that will create much-needed student housing, a renovated and expanded student engineering center and a home for the campus’s first new college in 50 years.
Along the northern edge of campus, on Hearst Avenue at Arch Street, the Gateway project is entering its second academic year of construction. The 367,270-square-foot home for the new College of Computing, Data Science, and Society, which will help respond to undergraduates’ growing interest in data science, is scheduled for completion during the 2025-2026 school year.
Nearby, the Bechtel Engineering Center is being renovated to create the four-story Engineering Center. Expected to open in early 2025, the new building overlooking Memorial Glade will…
