UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay

San Francisco, California

Using integrated sustainable master planning and eco-effective design strategies, William Client University of California, San Francisco
McDonough + Partners, in collaboration with Anshen + Allen, is designing a new UCSF Program Children, women’s, and cancer hospi-
Medical Center complex at Mission Bay. The first phase, to be complete in 2014, will tals, ambulatory care center, and central utilities
plant
include a family-centered children’s hospital with 183 beds, a 70-bed cancer hospital
Area 865,000 square feet
for adult patients, a specialty women’s hospital with a 36-bed birth center, ambulatory
Status Schematic Design
care services, central utilities plant, 500 parking spaces and support facilities. UCSF
is striving for a timeless and transformative facility—a design that supports new ways Team William McDonough + Partners, Architect;
of advancing health and contributes to healing through connections to nature and Anshen+Allen, Architect; Rutherford & Chekene,
sustainability. Design, construction, operations, and purchasing strategies for the new Structural Engineers; Arup, Structural Engineers;
complex will integrate the best green practices available. The project will aim for LEED Arup, MEP Engineer
Gold certification. It is anticipated that the center will incorporate discoveries from
evidence-based design, a body of knowledge which demonstrates the built environment
can positively affect healing, health, safety and well-being.

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Patient rooms will include materials which have

undergone assessment to eliminate most known
toxic elements.

Patient care units are configured to allow

daylight and views into most nursing stations.

Extensive green roofs and healing gardens

across the hospital complex will be among the
most of any urban U.S. hospital.

Water conservation will include rain/stormwater

collection and reuse onsite for landscape
irrigation, one of the few examples of water
conservation on a large urban hospital site.

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RECYCLABLE CEILINGS

HYPOALLERGENIC FLOORS

LOW-EMITTING PAINTS
& WALL COVERINGS
SUSTAINABLY
HARVESTED WOOD

High Level Material Assessment Protocol Healing Gardens

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 LIGHT, AIR, VIEWS
Good daylight, views, and air
in all patient rooms.

PUBLIC SERVICE
Educational displays / services HABITAT
3.6 acres of gardens

HEALTHY MATERIALS EMISSIONS

Selected with 15,000 tons CO2
extraordinary care. saved per year

WATER CONSERVATION
2-4M gallons/year GREEN ROOFS
Among largest of US hospitals

Design Strategies Diagram

MECHANICAL SYSTEM
GREEN
ROOFS
EFFICIENT
PLUMBING
SYSTEM

RECYCLED
IRRIGATION
WATER

FILTRATION

Water Balance Diagram

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