Plant Construction Company, L.P.

Plant Construction Company, L.P. has built in San Francisco since 1947, working across higher education, healthcare, commercial interiors and historic renovation in a market where seismic performance drives most structural decisions. The firm handles preconstruction, general contracting, construction management and design-build, and much of its portfolio involves building on constrained urban campuses with occupied buildings alongside. Plant is the general contractor on UC Berkeley’s Undergraduate Academic Building, a five-storey, roughly 78,000-square-foot mass-timber classroom block on Campanile Way with a total project cost of $136.8 million. The firm records the job as an academic seismic replacement building, since it substitutes for classroom stock that no longer met University of California seismic performance criteria.