The building occupants will be surged to other campus locations. The Campus anticipates funding and performing Deferred Maintenance and Program upgrades simultaneously with the seismic work. The seismic work will improve the building's seismic resistance by strengthening foundations, adding shear walls, diaphragms and moment frames, reinforcing chimneys, and upgrading connection details. The building was designed as a Unitarian Church by A.C. Schweinfurth and is an example of the First Bay Tradition. This building is on the National Register of Historic Places, the State Historic Resources Inventory, and is a registered historic landmark with the City of Berkeley.
Construction is complete.
This work will not alter the appearance of this historic building. The work includes construction of new shear walls and foundations, strengthening of the roof structure and diaphragm, addition of collector beams connecting to the new shear walls constructed in the Step 2 project, and related mechanical, electrical, and finishing work. Most of the proposed improvements will be constructed within the existing field bounded by the bleacher parapet walls, the south stadium perimeter wall, and the fence at the Hellman Tennis Complex. The new soccer field, to be named Goldman Field, will feature a special sand based field and subdrain system. The new track and field layout will include longer curves and special synthetic surfacing.