Site work and new construction of a medical facility in San Francisco, California. Completed plans call for the construction of a medical facility; and for site work for a medical facility.

The University of California at San Francisco is reportedly planning to develop a 284,800-square-foot research facility and outpatient treatment center on part of the site of the former Potrero Power Station, which is in southeast San Francisco on the bay. The UCSF plan is currently being considered by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. The research facility would be on Block 2 of the Potrero Power Station Special Use District, which is the legal framework for the redevelopment of the shuttered Potrero Power Station in the Dogpatch neighborhood into a mixed-use project, a long-term redevelopment undertaken by Associate Capital. The redevelopment district is roughly bounded by 22nd Street, 23rd Street, Illinois Street and the bay. The long-term plan for the district calls for as many as 2,600 housing units, 1.6 million square feet of commercial space, a 250-key hotel and green space. The UCSF plan would mean that the university would own the block outright, once the city signs off on the plan. Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron, best known for the de Young Museum, designed the new UCSF building. The research facility would be the second building in the district so far, following a 105-unit residential development that Associate Capital started in 2023, after funding was approved to make infrastructure improvements in the district. The city created the district itself in 2020, anticipating that it would add a significant amount of publicly accessible open space and community facilities, increased public access to the waterfront, neighborhood-serving retail, and affordable housing. The site had been devoted to electricity production since the late 19th century, eventually operating as the last fossil fuel power plant in the city, which closed in 2011. San Francisco life science market cools Once a hot market, life sciences in the Bay Area cooled as funding got more expensive, though the market is still sizable and active companies are looking for high-quality space. The city managed to eke out positive absorption of nearly 36,500 square feet in the first quarter of 2024, Avison Young reports, compared with negative absorption of more than 278,000 square feet for San Francisco Peninsula as a whole. Life science vacancies have been rising steadily in the Bay Area, from well below 10 percent just before the pandemic—and in the quarters immediately after the worst of the pandemic—to exceeding 20 percent by the beginning of 2024, with some development still underway. The upshot may be a short-term oversupply in the Bay Area, Avison Young notes. Total life science employment in the Bay Area has mushroomed in the last 20 years, according to Avison Young, supporting the expansion of life science real estate in the region, with San Francisco forming one of the nation’s main clusters in the industry. In the city, only about 2,000 people worked in the sector in 2002. Twenty years later, the total was more than 13,000. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Construction has started for the $4.3 billion UCSF Parnassus Heights Hospital expansion in San Francisco. The foundation work is now underway. Once complete, the 15-story medical center will offer hundreds of new patient beds and care units. The official groundbreaking ceremony was held in late April. Foundation work is nearly finished. The hospital is expected to open by 2030. The rising 15-story structure is designed by Herzog & de Meuron, with HDR as the architect of the record. The terracotta-clad tower will come together like an asymmetrical wedding cake, with a fluted-panel base at the bottom, a four-story middle Of curtain-wall glass, and a top layer of stepped terraces with seven floors of patient care units. From the top, patients and employees will be able to see the other major project by Herzog & de Meuron, the twisting copper-clad de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park. Once complete, the 294-foot tall structure will contribute around a million square feet of usable space, adding 324 new patient beds. The complex will increase the overall campus's capacity up to 682 patient beds, 40 operating rooms, and 70 emergency beds. According to the UCSF press release, the new facilities will "incorporate the latest technologies in diagnostics, robotics and surgical procedures into complex specialty care, including neurosurgery, cardiology, transplant and emergency medicine." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/ucsf-proceed-parnassus-heights-hospital-project-19515243.php State court says UCSF can proceed with $4.3 billion Parnassus Heights hospital project June 14, 2024| Bob Egelko UCSF has agreed to build 1,200 housing units for staff and faculty _______________________________ https://sfyimby.com/2024/06/construction-underway-for-4-3-billion-ucsf-parnassus-heights-expansion-san-francisco.html Construction has started for the $4.3 billion UCSF Parnassus Heights Hospital expansion in San Francisco. The official groundbreaking ceremony was held over a month ago, and foundation work is now underway. Once complete, the 15-story medical center will offer hundreds of new patient beds and care units. The project was approved by the UC Regents in 2022, with demolition starting last year. A significant amount of the financing came from a half-billion-dollar donation from the Helen Diller Foundation, resulting in the future complex being named the UCSF Health Helen Diller Hospital. Our last site visit at the start of this year showed that the demolition of the former Langley Porter Psychiatric Hospital was nearly complete as crews prepared the site for construction. The official groundbreaking ceremony was held in late April, with House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi, California Lieutenant Governor Eleni Kounalakis, and Mayor London Breed in attendance. Foundation work is moving along now, with two construction cranes and two foundation drilling rigs spotted on-site last week. The hospital is expected to open by 2030. The rising 15-story structure is designed by Herzog & de Meuron, with HDR as the architect of the record. The terracotta-clad tower will come together like an asymmetrical wedding cake, with a fluted-panel base at the bottom, a four-story middle of curtain-wall glass, and a top layer of stepped terraces with seven floors of patient care units. From the top, patients and employees will be able to see the other major project by Herzog & de Meuron, the twisting copper-clad de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park. Once complete, the 294-foot tall structure will contribute around a million square feet of usable space, adding 324 new patient beds. The complex will increase the overall campus’s capacity up to 682 patient beds, 40 operating rooms, and 70 emergency beds. According to the UCSF press release, the new facilities will “incorporate the latest technologies in diagnostics, robotics and surgical procedures into complex specialty care, including neurosurgery, cardiology, transplant and emergency medicine.” In a public statement shared by UCSF, Chancellor Sam Hawgood stated, “to remain a leader in the fields of biomedical research, health sciences, education, and care, we are building world-class facilities to match the caliber of the people who will woprk in them.” Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi added in the public release, “This new hospital will be transformative for our city by significantly increasing capacity to meet the health needs of San Franciscans – while creating hundreds of good-paying, union jobs for the Bay Area.” ------------------------------------------------------------ https://www.constructiondive.com/news/hbw-ucsf-hospital-construction/715027/ JV kicks off $4.3B San Francisco hospital build Herrero Builders, The Boldt Company and Webcor broke ground on UCSF’s new health care facility in the city’s Parnassus Heights neighborhood. The 15-floor, 880,000-square-foot UCSF Health Helen Diller Hospital will cover one city block in San Francisco’s Parnassus Heights neighborhood. Dive Brief: Construction has kicked off on a new, $4.3 billion hospital at the University of California, San Francisco, according to the school. A three-pronged JV of San Francisco-based Webcor and Herrero Builders, as well as the Appleton, Wisconsin-headquartered The Boldt Company, is building the project, according to Webcor. Operating as HBW, the group will construct the 15-floor, 880,000-square-foot UCSF Health Helen Diller Hospital across one city block in San Francisco’s Parnassus Heights neighborhood. Dive Insight: The project has a 30% local hiring goal for construction workers and UCSF pledged to create 1,000 union jobs, as well as new job training programs. In addition, the job calls for renovations of approximately 114,000 square feet of space at the existing Moffitt and Long Hospitals, HBW said. Project specs include a new 15-story exterior stair and seismic upgrades at Moffitt Hospital, renovations at the existing Parnassus Central Utility Plant, demolition of the Langley Porter Psychiatric building and expansion of the existing Long Hospital loading dock, main hospital thoroughfare and site utilities. Lead architect Herzog & de Meuron and architect of record HDR designed the hospital, according to UCSF. The facility will incorporate the latest technologies in diagnostics, robotics and surgical procedures into complex specialty care, including neurosurgery, cardiology, transplant and emergency medicine. The new facility’s operating suites will have access to MRIs, scanners and other imaging equipment for complex cases, such as brain tumors and transplants, while expanded patient rooms will accommodate larger, modern medical equipment. It will also increase UCSF Health’s current capacity by 37% to 682 beds, while adding 22 new operating rooms, for a total of 40 overall, the university said. In addition, 31 new emergency care beds will increase overall capacity to 70 beds. _______________________________________________ As of May 18, 2022, this project is in the pre-development stage. Design and preconstruction is expected to begin third quarter 2022 with construction beginning in first quarter 2024. The joint venture general contractors have been selected. The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Health is seeking a Design Assist Electrical Contractor. The previous solicitation has been included below for reference: The construction cost for the project is estimated at $1-1.5 billion. UCSF Health's goal is to maximize innovation, quality, productivity, flexibility, and collaboration to create value for cost through use of the current, best-in-class project delivery model for large healthcare programs. Core team members (GC, AOR, Engineers, and Trade Contractors) are required to co-locate with the project team during design and construction services. UCSF has a master program that will serve as the starting point for design. The project includes NHPH as well as renovation of existing space within Moffitt and Long Hospitals. NHPH will connect to both Moffitt and Long Hospitals. New construction will not exceed 955,000 BGSF and renovations may be approximately 200,000 SF. Renovations of the existing Parnassus Central Utility Plant (PCUP), loading dock, Medical Center Way, and site utilities may be incorporated into the scope of the NHPH Program. Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute (LPPI) will be demolished before this project can begin, but this scope of work is not currently included in this RFQ. Every effort will be made to ensure that all persons have equal access to contracts and other business opportunities with the University within the limits imposed by law or University policy. Each responding firm may be required to show evidence of its equal employment opportunity policy. Contact Julie Lau at julie.lau@ucsf.edu if you need further information or clarification of the RFQ process.