McCarthy, Moore Ruble Yudell Selected to Lead Development for Business School Building at the University of California, Riverside 

McCarthy Building Companies, Inc. alongside Moore Ruble Yudell Architects & Planners were selected by the California Board of Regents to lead the development of a new 63,000-square-foot building at the University of California, Riverside.

The building will centralize School of Business classes and activities, which have been distributed across campus because of the program’s growth.

The team was selected via a design-build competition, with Moore Ruble Yudell’s significant experience in business school design ultimately helping the team achieve success.

The building will feature two 80-seat classrooms; a 350-seat auditorium; a computer lab; a studio to record podcasts, lectures, videos and other media; study areas; a student lounge; 20 faculty offices; 59 administrative offices including one for the dean; a faculty and staff lounge; an executive meeting room and group meeting rooms. It will also include technology for hybrid learning, allowing lecturers to deliver multimedia presentations that can be recorded and streamed. A variety of outdoor spaces for student and faculty use, as well as school events have also been incorporated into the design.

The building will be the first new building in the south campus district, an area expected to see future growth in the coming years. As such, it has been designed to serve as a gateway and will integrate strong indoor-outdoor connections that harmonize the project to its site, district and greater campus.

The project is budgeted at $87 million and is slated for completion by the fall semester of 2024.