The UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay—consisting of the Benioff Children’s Hospital, Betty Irene Moore Women’s Hospital and Bakar Cancer Hospital—was built on a grand vision of not only creating a world-class hospital complex, but also on delivering this transforming healthcare facility with unprecedented efficiency and value. 

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R+C served as the structural engineer of record for the new hospital. Our structural design incorporated efficient steel framing layouts and met strict performance requirements. R+C designed the steel framing to be as light as possible, which reduced tonnage. This saved the project $2.8M.

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The project was delivered through integrated delivery process. R+C and other team members collaborated in UCSF’s Big Room, the ICDC, to solve problems quickly and efficiently. This approach was vital to streamlining the project schedule. For example, the team used R+C’s BIM model for clash detection to avoid construction delays. As a result of the team’s productive collaboration, the hospital will serve as an exemplary benchmark for LEAN Project Delivery for years to come.