ORANGE, CALIF.
The University of California, Irvine will dedicate the 482,428-sf University Hospital in Orange, Calif., in March of 2009. The $393 million academic medical center provides 191 beds as well as research and training facilities for the UCI School of Medicine. Designed by HOK and Nabih Youssef & Associates Structural Engineers, the seven-story plus basement facility features private rooms; a trauma center; 13 operating rooms; adult, pediatric, and neonatal ICUs; laboratories; and a comprehensive cancer center. General contractor Hensel Phelps Construction began building the hospital in February of 2005. A second construction phase, slated for completion in 2011, will bring the cost of the completed hospital to $555.9 million.
