Major Additions to Medical Center

By Thomas York

Two of the largest projects underway at the medical center include a $282 million Surgical and Emergency Services Pavilion and the $51 million Davis Tower phase three and four project.

Other major medical center projects in design or under construction include:

• The $20 million, 40,000-sq.-ft. Oak Park Research Center will house the Center for Biophotonics Science and Technology and research space for the campus' cancer center and infectious diseases. The center will explore the use of light and radiant energy in biology and medicine. Citrus Heights-based J.R. Roberts Corp. is the general contractor and the Sacramento office of AC Martin Partners is the architect. Construction should be completed this month.
  
  
• The $14 million renovation of an eight-story section of the medical school's east wing to comply with SB 1953. The original structure was built in 1964. Sacramento-based Lionakis-Beaumont Design Group is the executive architect. A general contractor has not been selected.
  
  
• The $16-million expansion of the central plant, which replaces the seven-year-old cooling towers. The new plant will enable the center to increase its electric power generating capacity. The Sacramento office of Jacobs Engineering Group is construction manager. The project is scheduled to be completed in October.

advertisement

The medical center also is spending $6 million to expand the radiology-oncology building by 7,000 sq. ft. and $4.5 million to build the Kiwanis Family House, a facility where parents can stay while their children are hospitalized. The Family House will increase the number of units from 13 to 32. Construction will be finished in the summer.

Mike Boyd, the medical center's associate director for planning, design and construction, said the campus will demolish the 184,000-sq.-ft. North-South Hospital Building in 2011 at an estimated cost of $14 million. He said the building and other structures on the medical center complex could not be renovated to meet seismic regulations.