Lawrence Berkeley Lab late Monday laid out the details for a new second campus. It is looking to consolidate facilities like the Joint BioEnergy Institute in Emeryville, the Joint Genome Institute in Walnut Creek, the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center in Oakland and the Life Sciences Division in West Berkeley.
The Lab estimates that by 2015, it will spend $15 million annually to lease space at those facilities. The lease at the Joint Bioenergy Institute expires in 2013. The idea is to put all of them in one large site that will initially house 800 employees.
The new site should be no more than 20 to 25 minutes from the Lab’s main campus in the Berkeley hills, have capacity to accommodate growth, and be convenient to public transportation, among other attributes listed in the Lab's second campus request documents.
About 20 percent of the lab’s 4,200 employees work at offsite locations and the Lab says putting these disparate groups together will foster efficiencies for the Lab and spur collaboration among groups, which is critical for scientific discovery, said lab spokesman Jeff Miller.
Proposals for the second campus are due in early March, and the Lab says a short list of front-runners will be selected in April. A preferred site will be chosen by June.
The Lab hopes to occupy the second campus by 2015.
Lawrence Berkeley Lab late Monday laid out the details for a new second campus. It is looking to consolidate facilities like the Joint BioEnergy Institute in Emeryville, the Joint Genome Institute in Walnut Creek, the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center in Oakland and the Life Sciences Division in West Berkeley.
The Lab estimates that by 2015, it will spend $15 million annually to lease space at those facilities. The lease at the Joint Bioenergy Institute expires in 2013. The idea is to put all of them in one large site that will initially house 800 employees.
The new site should be no more than 20 to 25 minutes from the Lab’s main campus in the Berkeley hills, have capacity to accommodate growth, and be convenient to public transportation, among other attributes listed in the Lab's second campus request documents.
About 20 percent of the lab’s 4,200 employees work at offsite locations and the Lab says putting these disparate groups together will foster efficiencies for the Lab and spur collaboration among groups, which is critical for scientific discovery, said lab spokesman Jeff Miller.
Proposals for the second campus are due in early March, and the Lab says a short list of front-runners will be selected in April. A preferred site will be chosen by June.
The Lab hopes to occupy the second campus by 2015.
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