Southern California
UCI Health Facilities
Scope/Solutions
Looking to expand, UCI Health, a part of the University of California, Irvine, acquired four medical centers and their associated buildings in Southern California. The acquisition included medical centers, medical office buildings, physician practice centers, and parking structures. UCI Health retained SGH to perform structural and seismic due diligence assessments and determine seismic performance ratings for each building.
SGH evaluated the existing healthcare buildings in context with the University of California Seismic Safety Policy (UC Policy) and the Alquist Hospital Seismic Safety Act (AHSSA). Highlights of our work include:
- Collaborating with UCI Health to determine which buildings provide general acute care and must meet the California Department of Health Care Access and Information requirements and those buildings that provide administrative, ambulatory, or clinical services and fall under the purview of the University of California, Office of the President (UCOP)
- Reviewing drawings and reports and visiting the facilities to confirm the existing structural and lateral-load-resisting systems generally match the available drawings
- Developing and executing exploratory investigation programs to identify key structural elements when no drawings were available
- Performing analyses of the buildings utilizing the FEMA P-154 methodology and the ASCE 41-17 Tier 1 and 2 methodologies
- Identifying potential engineering and construction work associated with bringing the buildings into compliance with the UC Policy
- Providing UCI Health with an opinion of probable construction costs to achieve jurisdictional compliance
- Developing reports for each building for UCI Health to submit to UCOP
- Helping UCI Health understand compliance policy schedule requirements and providing input regarding compliance strategies
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Project Summary
2025
Completion Date
360k
Project Size
Solutions
Evaluation
Services
Structures
Markets
Commercial | Health Care & Life Sciences
Client(s)
UCI Health
Specialized Capabilities
Seismic Engineering | Repair & Strengthening
Key team members
Kevin O'Connell
Structural Engineering Division Head, Southern California
Additional Projects
West
225 Bush Street
The building at 225 Bush Street is the former home of Standard Oil Corporation and is listed as a local historic landmark. Jones Lang LaSalle retained SGH to develop a rehabilitation program for the exterior walls and tile roofs.
West
Williams-Sonoma at Union Square
Once known as Bullock & Jones men’s clothier, this 18,000 sq ft cast-in-place concrete building was reconstructed after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Williams-Sonoma wanted to create a dramatic effect with a new central atrium, which required major modifications to the existing structure.