Dive summary:

• Work is under way to erect a 40,000-square-foot research facility that Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California will use to study ways to derive fuels from sunlight energy.
• McCarthy Building Companies Inc. is the contractor for the three-story, $54 million project and is to finish it in late 2014.
• When it opens the Solar Energy Research Center will be home to the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis, which is an effort to find nano-scale ways to harness sunlight for transportation fuels.

From the article:

McCarthy Building Companies, Inc., a California construction firm, broke ground on the Solar Energy Research Center for the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the company announced. ...