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(April 2, 2024) This week, the Pharmacy Shared Service Center opened featuring its state-of-the-art medication inventory and distribution equipment.

(March 15, 2024) On Friday, Mar. 22, the California Tower team closed the 45th Street crosswalk that connects the Cancer Center and the Surgery and Emergency Services Pavilion.

(January 25, 2024) Facilities Planning and Development secured a Certificate of Occupancy for the new Transportation and Fleet Services facility, located offsite at Berry Avenue off Power Inn Road, paving the way for the relocation slated for February.

(January 17, 2024) Vision 2030 will double the size of the Sacramento campus from 3.6 to 7 million gross square feet. This unparalleled construction program is transforming our health system for the future.

(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 ambulatory surgery centers in the country.

(January 2, 2024) UC Davis Health teams continue to work together to vacate the North-South Wing of the Medical Center to comply with Assembly Bill 2190 - California’s Seismic Compliance. As of Dec. 29, 2023, the West Entrance to the Medical Center is permanently closed. 

(December 20, 2023) In the coming weeks, seismic rating signage will be posted in the Main Hospital, Surgery and Emergency Services Pavilion (SESP), Davis Tower and the Central Plant.  

(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.

(November 17, 2023) School of Medicine leaders tour Aggie Square’s Life Sciences Technology Engineering East and Life-Long Learning buildings.

(November 3, 2023) Construction crews erected the first steel beams at the Folsom Center for Health, UC Davis Health’s planned 40-acre campus off Hwy 50 and E. Bidwell.

(October 31, 2023) UC Davis Health teams continue to work together to vacate the North-South Wing of the Medical Center to comply with Assembly Bill 2190 - California’s Seismic Compliance.

(October 24, 2023) The prenatal clinic in Stockton successfully welcomes first patients at the new, expanded location.

(October 18, 2023) As a Level One Trauma Center, UC Davis Health serves as a regional safe harbor during emergency events such as earthquakes. UC Davis Health is taking many steps to ensure the safety of our buildings in such an event so that we can remain operational and our buildings safe for patients and staff.

(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 15, 2023) The following are upcoming building and construction updates for the week of Sept. 11. The projects will have slight parking impacts.

(September 13, 2023) The Sacramento Business Journal recognized the Ernest E. Tschannen Eye Institute as a standout development during its 2023 Best Real Estate Projects of the Year awards breakfast on Sept. 7.

(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.

(September 8, 2023) Locker room closures beginning Friday, Sept. 15

(August 28, 2023) Work is getting underway on the new Folsom Medical Office Building at Highway 50 and E. Bidwell Street in Folsom. The outpatient facility is set to open in 2025.

(August 16, 2023) Facilities, Planning and Development has begun taking inventory of nonstructural components within the main hospital.

(August 15, 2023) Patients can now access more radiology services close to their homes, thanks to a collection of new offerings at the UC Davis Health clinic location in Davis.

(August 8, 2023) UC Davis Health celebrated the structural completion of the 48X Complex, the new ambulatory surgery center located at the corner of 48th and X streets.

(August 1, 2023) Work continues to vacate the North-South Wing of the UC Davis Medical Center to comply with California’s earthquake regulations by the end of 2023.

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

(June 20, 2023) Last week, the 48X Complex literally started to take shape. Steel framing began and will continue over the next couple of months.

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

(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