UC Davis Health California Tower In Sacramento
UC Davis Health (Sacramento, Calif.), which has served the Sacramento region for more than 150 years, is making a $3.7 billion investment in the development of the new California Tower to transform its healthcare platform for a higher-acuity future.
The 14-story California Tower will be added to the eastern side of the existing UC Davis Medical Center. The project ensures maximum flexibility to accommodate future technologies and surge events, with a total of 334 beds, representing a mix of acuity-adaptable, intensive care, and medical/surgical bed types; 12 hybrid operating rooms; and two rooftop helipads.
Patient rooms prioritize adaptability for the future
More than 250 acuity-adaptable patient rooms are being designed to easily convert from medical/surgical to intensive care license in case of a surge including a pandemic, wildfire, or other large-scale disaster.
The tower will be designed to blend into its urban neighborhood with a 10,000-square-foot rooftop garden, inclusive spaces and public-oriented programming, while the design concept, “Confluence,” will reflect the diverse community and regional landscape. Specifically, the concept celebrates and emphasizes the productive coming together of peoples, as well as the Sacramento and American Rivers, which form the city’s distinctive topography.
This theme is further reinforced by pedestrian movement across the site as well as through various grids of existing buildings and streets. The concept reveals itself at all scales of the project, from the siting, orientation, and façade expression to the interior architecture of public and private spaces, in colors and materials drawn from the region’s natural and cultural life.
UC Davis Health California Tower project details
Location: Sacramento, Calif.
Completion date: 2030
Owner: University of California Davis Health (UC Davis Health)
Total building area: 910,000 sq. ft.
Total construction cost: $1.2 million (project cost: $3.7 billion)
Cost/sq. ft.: $1,300
Architect: SmithGroup
Interior designer: SmithGroup
General contractor: McCarthy Building Companies Inc.
Engineers: Siegried (civil). Mazzetti (mechanical and plumbing) Silverman & Light (electrical), Degenkolb (structural)
Builder: McCarthy Building Companies Inc.
Art consultant: Deanna Marsh Studio
Medical equipment planner: McCarthy EQUIP
Project details are provided by the design team and not vetted by Healthcare Design.
