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(January 3, 2024) At UC Davis Health, the governing approval to move facility projects forward is shared between three entities: the Fire Marshal’s Office, FP&D’s Building Department and the California Department of Health Care Access and Information. 

(December 18, 2024) The UC Board of Regents has approved the Central Utility Plant Expansion (CUPx) project, a critical initiative to support the growth of the UC Davis Health campus and advance efforts to reduce fossil fuel use.

(August 16, 2024) UC Davis Children’s Hospital is proud to announce the opening of its Panda Cares Center of Hope, made possible by Panda Express associates and guests.

(July 22, 2024) A groundbreaking ceremony was held for the California Tower, a hospital expansion to meet the region’s health care needs for the next 50 years.

(January 17, 2024) As a new year dawns, construction continues across UC Davis Health, and so does our staff’s cumulative work on Vision 2030.

(January 10, 2024) UC Davis Health celebrated a construction milestone for the 48X Complex, a four-story building that will feature one of the largest outpatient surgery centers in the country.

(December 7, 2023) Folsom MOB construction crews used a crane to lift the final beam of steel into place Dec. 7, in what is called a “topping out” ceremony.

(November 22, 2023) With more than 500 industry partners in attendance, UC Davis Health’s Facilities Planning and Development (FP&D) division hosted its second annual industry day — Building Together — on Oct. 30, 2023.

(October 18, 2023) A leading force behind Vision 2030 is ensuring the Sacramento campus adheres to California state seismic compliance. 

(October 27, 2023) A new Stockton clinic location for patients with high-risk pregnancies has opened this week. 

(October 13, 2023) The Ernest E. Tschannen Eye Institute Building received top awards from the Construction Managers Association of America and the Sacramento Business Journal.

(September 11, 2023) Instead of coming to a clinic, a clinic came to the community. Free mobile mammograms were provided to low-income women in Oak Park.

(July 5, 2023) Rock band The Who and its Teen Cancer America organization help give hospitalized teenagers a break from medical care

(May 30, 2023) The dynamic team of leaders reflect on launching one of the nation’s largest progressive design build projects in health care

(January 18, 2023) By 2030, UC Davis Health’s Sacramento campus will grow from today’s 3.6 million square feet of building space to over 7 million square feet. This doubling of the campus in less than eight years is the largest health system capital expansion in the United States today.

(October 27, 2022) UC Davis Health held a ceremonial groundbreaking today for a major new outpatient surgery center known as the 48X Complex.

(October 21, 2022) UC Davis Health Facilities Planning and Development hosted UC Davis Health’s first ever Industry Day event for AECs, subcontractors and other interested parties

Archive of UC Davis construction project updates from the Office of Government and Community Relations

(October 20, 2021) New facilities and a proposed new community represent the university’s commitment to promoting healthy aging in the region