Design Building Sustainable Healthcare

Langan Helps New UCI Medical Center Get Out of the Ground

California is setting the Gold(en State) standard for healthcare with the University of California, Irvine (UCI) Medical Center expansion. Langan’s experienced geotechnical team is supporting the $700 million, carbon-neutral, academic medical campus slated to open in 2025.

This design-build, 144-bed hospital project includes comprehensive cancer and ambulatory care centers, a five-story outpatient facility, and an eight-story parking structure. Most notably, the medical center will be the first in the nation to operate on an all-electric central utility plant, directly supporting UCI Health’s goal of addressing climate change.

“The design-build delivery method required an advanced understanding of the site’s geologic conditions and compelled our team to proactively develop foundation and grading solutions and plan for challenges that might arise during construction,” said Chris Zadoorian, Associate Principal, Langan. “Our unconventional, cost-effective solution contributed to UCI’s sustainability goals by limiting the need to export problematic clayey soils, instead blending them with other granular materials—which also supported the project schedule and ultimately helped our team win this historic project.”

With offices from Sacramento to San Diego, Langan provides integrated technical services that support healthcare projects statewide. In addition to geotechnical engineering, the firm plays a critical role in helping hospitals design healing environments on campuses via landscape architecture; ease access into facilities through efficient and safe parking and traffic planning; and renovate spaces with cutting-edge laser scanning and modeling that accurately captures as-built conditions.