McCarthy Building Companies, Inc, in close collaboration with SmithGroup and UC Davis Health, has officially announced the groundbreaking of UC Davis Health California Tower project, which is envisioned as a transformative healthcare facility set to redefine patient care and community health in Sacramento. According to certain reports, the stated project is expected to be as big as 910,000 square-feet, while simultaneously costing $3.7 billion in regards to expenditure. Once completed, though, the project will be a pathway to enhance health outcomes and support the socioeconomic fabric of the region. More on the same would reveal how the California Tower will feature a 14-story hospital facility and a 5-story pavilion, installing 334 new private patient rooms designed to improve recovery and reduce infection rates. Boasting connectivity to the existing Surgery and Emergency Services Pavilion, it will also bring forth two helicopter landing decks, advanced imaging and support services, and complex procedure rooms. The idea behind doing so is to ensure comprehensive healthcare delivery for the next 50 years. Marking an extension of UC Davis Health’s explicit commitment towards providing high-quality care to underserved populations, the all-new California Tower will also create hundreds of construction jobs, utilize local vendors, and upon completion, provide permanent employment opportunities. By doing all that, like you can guess, it will contribute rather massively towards community wealth-building and addressing social determinants of health.
“We proactively developed a comprehensive staffing rotation strategy from the project’s inception, ensuring team well-being and continual growth,” said Bryan Anderson, Executive Vice President, Operations at McCarthy Building Companies. “With such a big team working on a large healthcare project, culture is very important. We dedicated time early on focusing on our culture as a team and outlining how we want to behave, operate, communicate, and treat each other.”
Coming back to the project’s specifics, they include an architectural design which actively compliments the existing UC Davis Medical Center campus while setting a new vision for healthcare facilities. The 230-foot tower will also be a prominent feature of the local skyline. Beyond that, it will boast unitized curtain wall panels mixed with metal fins, and structural glass planes so to enhance both aesthetic appeal and functional efficiency. Another major utility of such a design will also be to deliver optimal patient privacy, and at the same time, support reduced energy consumption, thus creating a welcoming and sustainable environment.
“The California Tower synthesizes innovative medical planning, state-of-the-art building technologies and thoughtful patient and staff-centered design to meet the healthcare needs of the future,” said Chee Keong Lin, Vice President and Health Studio Leader at SmithGroup. “This transformative healthcare facility will provide a destination of healing and a vital resource for Sacramento and its surrounding northern California communities.”
Building upon the point of sustainability, the California Tower project is also on track to receive LEED Gold certification. This comes after it was confirmed that the building’s design will include energy-efficient systems, indoor environmental quality enhancements, water use reduction, and rainwater management strategies, all contributing to a greener, more sustainable healthcare environment.
As for what makes McCarthy Building Companies Inc an ideal candidate to lead an effort of this sort, the answer resides in its 160 year-long worth of experience when it comes to collaborating with partners and solving complex building challenges. In essence, the company leverages industry-leading design phase and construction techniques, alongside value-add technology, to maximize outcomes. Already deemed as 17th largest domestic builder (Engineering News-Record, May 2023), McCarthy Building Companies currently has offices spread across St. Louis; Atlanta; Collinsville, Ill.; Kansas City, Kan.; Omaha, Neb.; Phoenix; Las Vegas; Denver; Austin, Channelview, Dallas, and Houston; and San Diego, Newport Beach, Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Jose and Sacramento, Calif.
