UCSF is building what it calls a hospital of the future on its original San Francisco campus. The $4.3 billion Helen Diller Hospital at Parnassus Heights is a 15-story, roughly 900,000-square-foot teaching hospital meant to replace aging facilities and meet California’s seismic rules.
Project Scope
The new hospital carries about 336 beds with expanded emergency, imaging and surgical capacity. Herzog & de Meuron leads the design with healthcare specialist HDR, and the HerreroBOLDT and Webcor partnership is delivering it through integrated project delivery. Crews broke ground in 2024, with completion targeted for 2030 on a tight, hillside urban site.
Why It Matters
Replacing a working hospital on an active medical campus, on a hill, under California’s seismic code, is one of the harder problems in healthcare construction. The project also expands one of the country’s top academic medical centers. For another major teaching-hospital build, see the new Howard University Hospital. More from UCSF.
Project Team & Details
| Owner / Client | UCSF Health |
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| Architect | Herzog & de Meuron + HDR |
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| General Contractor | HerreroBOLDT / Webcor (HBW) |
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| Status | Under Construction |
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| Delivery Method | IPD |
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| Funding Source | Institutional |
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