Parnassus Heights Monthly Construction Update | May 2025

About This Monthly Construction Update UCSF Real Estate shares Parnassus Heights construction updates monthly. Updates will be sent to the UCSF Parnassus Heights community on the Monday following the first of each month and will be posted online. Dates and details are subject to change. UCSF...

Parnassus Heights Monthly Construction Update | April 2025

UCSF Parnassus Heights Construction Update Moves from Quarterly to Monthly UCSF Real Estate will begin sharing Parnassus Heights construction updates monthly, replacing the current quarterly schedule. Starting April 2025, updates will be sent to the Parnassus Heights community on the Monday...

Video: Cranes Lifting Seismic Dampers for HSIR Improvements

  The HSIR Improvements Program recently achieved a major feat over a couple of weekends when the UCSF Real Estate team directed the mobilization of two cranes – measuring 135- and 250 feet – for seismic improvements needed on the Health Sciences East (HSE) and Health Sciences West (HSW) towers...

Video: Virtual Tour of UCSF Bakar Research and Academic Building

Watch a virtual tour of the UCSF Barbara and Gerson Bakar Research and Academic Building (BRAB) with narration from Alicia Murasaki, Assistant Vice Chancellor Campus Planning and Campus Architect for UCSF Real Estate. The building is under construction on the Parnassus Heights campus and is...

Parnassus Heights Construction Update: Summer 2024

This summer, UCSF construction efforts on the Parnassus Heights campus are nearing new milestones. This quarterly update by UCSF Real Estate provides essential information about important capital projects and their impacts on campus. You can find community updates on UCSF construction and design...

Celebrating the Legacy of Stuart Eckblad: A Visionary for the Health Care Design and Construction Industry

Stuart Eckblad, who has dedicated 18 years to successfully completing several UCSF Health major design and construction projects, will retire on July 31, 2024, as Vice President of Health Major Capital Projects for Real Estate at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Stuart is...

Parnassus Heights Construction Update: Early 2024

Construction continues to run at full steam at Parnassus Heights. This quarterly update shares what you need to know about major construction impacts on campus. Dates and other project details are subject to change. The next update will be available in spring 2024. You can find community updates...

Two Houses Make Room for New Administrative Services Building

In a step of UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland’s campus modernization project, two Craftsman-style bungalows facing the hospital on 52nd Street have been moved to a new home a block away. The two structures, owned by the hospital and used as offices, were relocated last month to hospital-...

Parnassus Heights Construction Update, Winter 2023

This winter, the Parnassus Heights campus will continue to be transformed by two major construction projects and other work underway across the campus.  Langley Porter Psychiatric Hospital building is being demolished for the New Hospital at Parnassus Heights. The New Hospital at Parnassus...

Parnassus Heights Construction Update, Fall 2023

This fall at Parnassus Heights, construction is in full swing across the campus. As the last sections of UC Hall are taken down, excavation is starting for the new Parnassus Research and Academic Building (PRAB). Preparations are underway for building demolition to start later this year at the...