Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI)
Laboratory & Office
Emeryville


The Joint BioEnergy Institute, or JBEI, is a partnership created to advance the development of the next generation of biofuels - a gasoline replacement that comes from photosynthetic plants that capture solar energy.

This 63,600 square feet of new laboratory and office space is on the 4th floor of the new Emery Station East building. The build-out includes 33,000 square feet of bio-fuel research labs including an H3 occupancy waste room, three cold rooms, four warm rooms, fifteen fume hoods, a fermentation lab, plant growth rooms and chambers, a robotics lab and a Bruker room as well as several small specialty lab spaces.

This partnership that holds exciting new advances in biofuel development is led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and includes the Sandia National Laboratories, The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories, The University of California campuses of Berkeley and Davis and the Carnegie Institution for Science at Stanford University.

JBEI is one of three new U.S. Department of Energy’s Bioenergy Research Centers.

• Project Size: 63,600 sq. ft.
• Architect: Dowler-Gruman Architects DGA