Bernards Breaks Ground on New Building at USC

 LOS ANGELES—Bernards, a nationally ranked commercial builder with five offices throughout the Southwest, recently broke ground on the University of Southern California’s new Wallis Annenberg Hall, a dazzling new home for the famous Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. Bernards is serving as general contractor for the project. The Annenberg Foundation committed up to $50 million for the showcase, high-tech academic building.

 Although Annenberg Hall references the past via striking red brick Collegiate Gothic architecture, the project clearly reflects technologies of the future, with networked, media-saturated classrooms and laboratories, and the latest technologies and equipment throughout the building.  With a design that includes plans for gathering spaces for the local community, Annenberg Hall will rank as one of the anchor sites of Los Angeles’ downtown arts and education corridor.