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On Friday, ground will be broken on the Southwest Hall Lawn of the University of the Pacific’s Stockton campus to kick-off construction of the John T. Chambers Technology Center (artist rendering of the project pictured), a $12 million dollar facility that will serve as the new home to the university’s school of engineering and computer science.

The 24,000-square-foot center, which is to include seven research and teaching and industry project laboratories, classrooms, faculty offices, student study areas and conference rooms, will be the campus’s second LEED-certified facility, a rating bestowed by the U.S. Green Building Council that stands for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design.

Last year, the university’s board of regents named the building for Cisco CEO John Chambers, a parent of a Pacific graduate and presumably a major donor to the project. Among the facility’s other donors listed in the university’s press release about the groundbreaking are Charles and Carolyn Bloom, Darrell and Janet Delavan, Walter and Betty Baun, Ronald and Joanna Shelly, General John Toomay, Fawzi Al-Saleh, Faisal Sultan Al-Essa, and Stephen Bechtel.