Prices Drop on SF Project

SAN FRANCISCO – After seven months of construction, city officials are reporting significant cost savings on a replacement project for San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center.

 

Inexpensive steel purchases and low bid packages for excavation, site utilities and and elevator have resulted in a 12 percent savings on the $887 million hospital project, San Francisco officials say.

 

Developers broke ground on project in October 2009, less than a year after 84 percent of San Francisco voters passed a bond issue to fund the project. The hospital treats approximately 100,000 people per year, and about 20 percent of the city’s inpatients.

 

The new building, scheduled for completion in 2015, will be nine stories tall — seven floors aboveground and two below. Designers are targeting the LEED Gold certification.

 

The 448,000-square-foot, 284-bed hospital is designed to meet seismic requirements, allowing the structure to sway 30 inches in any direction.

Basement level two of the hospital will house a pharmacy and facilities for the dietary, cardiology, pulmonary, diagnostic imaging, and sterile processing departments. Fourteen operating rooms situated on basement level one will be constructed within close proximity to an emergency and trauma center located on the first floor.

 

The hospital’s second floor will contain labor and delivery units and labs and rooms for pediatrics, neonatal intensive are and postpartum divisions. The third and fourth floors will house an ICU and step-down ICU units, as well as step-down medical and surgical facilities. Medical and surgical units as well as a forensics unit will be located on the fifth floor. The building will be constructed with a rooftop garden.

 

The project team includes Fong & Chan Architects of San Francisco; contractors Webcor Builders of San Francisco; and construction managers Jacobs Engineering of Pasadena, Calif.