Enrollment at UC Riverside keeps climbing. The classrooms haven’t kept pace. A new teaching building is the fix.
UC Riverside built a four-story Undergraduate Teaching and Learning Facility to add lecture halls, active-learning classrooms and study space, with McCarthy Building Companies as contractor. The building opens for the 2026-27 academic year, easing a crunch that had pushed classes into overflow space across campus.
Project Scope
The facility leans on flexible, technology-equipped rooms built for group work rather than rows of fixed seats, matching how undergraduate instruction has shifted. Its central location knits the academic core together and cuts walking time between back-to-back classes.
Why It Matters
UC Riverside serves one of the most diverse, first-generation-heavy student bodies in the UC system, so added instructional capacity lands where the demand is real. Amid the data-center and megaproject headlines, the steady work of building out public universities keeps going.
Project Team & Details
| Owner / Client | University of California, Riverside |
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| General Contractor | McCarthy Building Companies |
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| Status | Completed |
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| Funding Source | Public (State) |
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