Overview

The UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay is the newest addition to UCSF Health, and is San Francisco’s first new hospital in 30 years. Located on a 15 acre site, it is a $1.5 billion, 878,000 sq. ft., 289-bed complex with specialty hospitals for children, women and cancer patients that was approved in 2008 and opened in 2015 (Figure 1). Developed as an IPD (Integrated Project Delivery) project, the team included well-known firms such as Stantec Architecture, Rutherford & Chekene, Arup, DPR Construction, and AECOM, which worked side by side with the owners in an integrated “big room,” and used all the advanced technologies for design and construction that are now common on large projects, including BIM, analysis and simulation, design coordination, etc.

Facilities management (FM) requires a systemic and data-centric approach for successful management. UCSF Facilities Management has developed proprietary tools used during design and construction to help teams deliver the required project data. In addition, as-built BIM is incorporated using VueOps, a model viewer system, into IBM Maximo, a Computer Maintenance Management System (CMMS). Data and the 3D model are used to aid in facilities operations for fast retrieval of required asset information, all on one integrated platform. This seventh dimension of BIM is now in practice at the newly commissioned Precision Care Medical Building at Mission Bay.