PIMD News Archive

Berkeley Lab’s East Canyon area will be a little easier to navigate this summer as UC Berkeley’s Centennial Bridge Improvement Project winds down. Scheduled to be completed by late June 2024, the project replaces a bridge on a critical transportation route that passes over the Lab’s Bertozzi Road and connects parts of the UC Berkeley […]

For the third year, Berkeley Lab’s Projects & Infrastructure Modernization Division will celebrate Women in Construction Week, which recognizes the role and contributions of women in the construction industry. This year’s theme is “Keys to the Future,” highlighting the vital role women play in the industry’s future.

At 93 years old, Berkeley Lab constantly races to build new facilities and renew its aging infrastructure to support world-class science. Millard “Skip” Dunham, Deputy Director of the Projects & Infrastructure Modernization Division, really hopes that Nobel research will be done one day in a building he helped build.

Rain and unexpected challenges didn’t stop Berkeley Lab’s Projects & Infrastructure Modernization Division from completing a major milestone last week, successfully moving and installing several utilities as part of the preparation for the Seismic Safety and Modernization facility.

E.O. Lawrence might not recognize the institution he started almost 100 years ago. The mission is the same; the people are still intellectually curious and dedicated, but the physical infrastructure has changed. Michael Brandt, Berkeley Lab’s Deputy Director for Operations, and Chief Operating Officer, sat down with Elements to discuss what to expect from Operations […]

A partnership between Berkeley Lab’s Projects & Infrastructure Modernization Division and the Parking & Transportation office will lead to at least 40 new parking spaces in what was the Old Town area of the Lab’s hill site, in a part of the Lab’s hill site with high parking demand. Read how this partnership works together […]

Learn more about some of the projects PIMD is helping manage at the lab and some of the wonderful progress made in the past year. This is just a sampling of all the hard work and committment our staff are devoting to improving lab infrastructure.

Leaders from the DOE’s Office of Environmental Management visited the Lab on Dec. 12 to look over the successful completion of the Old Town Demolition project, which their office funded. The demolition project allows the site – renamed Charter Hill – to become the home of envisioned research facilities.

It’s the end of an era for Berkeley Lab. Demolition of Building 54 – which served as the Lab’s cafeteria, among other things, for more than 70 years – began on Aug. 23. While it will take several weeks to remove all traces, the iconic main story was torn down by the end of the […]

You might have noticed a lot of new construction at Berkeley Lab’s main hill site recently. Our 92-year old Lab is undergoing a historic period of modernization. New scientific facilities, along with improvements to the site infrastructure and renewal of obsolete laboratories, will improve the reliability and availability of our scientific facilities for decades to […]