This new research facility on the University of California, Berkeley campus is one of many projects initiated by the California State Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) and was planned to fuel economic growth through technology research and manufacturing. Designed to turn research into socially useful commercial applications, the $127 million facility includes classroom and laboratories plus a 149-seat auditorium, cybercafe, technology museum and distance-learning classrooms. The Marvell Nanofabrication Laboratory is comprised of two large cleanrooms equipped with some of the world’s most advanced semiconductor-fabrication equipment.

Named Sutardja Dai Hall, it is now the new home of CITRIS and the Banatao Institute @ Citris Berkeley. CITRIS is a multi-disciplinary program that combines the skills of more than 300 faculty researchers and thousands of students from four UC campuses – Berkeley, Davis, Merced and Santa Cruz – with industrial partners from more than 60 corporations. As the headquarters for CITRIS, the 141,000-square-foot building is open to researchers from the four UC campuses in wide-ranging disciplines, including engineering, energy, health, law, public policy, political science and new media. The new building replaces Davis Hall North in the northeast corner of the UC Berkeley campus and within the College of Engineering Quadrant. The design, massing and scale of the five-story building is intended to respond to the nearby Arts & Crafts building as well as the adjacent Naval Architecture Building.