Rudolph and Sletten is building this one for the kids.
The Tutor Perini subsidiary won a $960 million contract to construct the new UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital in Oakland, California, according to a Sept. 10 news release from the parent company.
Project scope includes:
- Construction of an approximately 277,500-square-foot new hospital building with seven above-grade levels and one full basement level.
- Building a separate parking garage with 269 spaces and a rooftop heliport deck adjacent to the new hospital.
- Installation of a site services trailer and demolition of three existing structures to make way for the new construction.
Healthcare construction is big business in California. Boston-based contractor Suffolk Construction recently opened a new office in Newport Beach to focus on the market. It pegged the move to growing demand to modernize aging facilities up and down the West Coast.
Menlo Park, California-based Rudolph and Sletten has been working on preconstruction tasks at the UCSF Benioff Children’s site this year and is kicking off full construction in Oakland this month, according to the release.
Founded in a garage in the heart of Silicon Valley in 1959, Rudolph and Sletten has worked on several builds in the region for technology firms, hospitals and even Shirley Temple, for whom it constructed a pool house, according to its website. Los Angeles-based Tutor Perini bought the company in 2005, creating what Engineering News-Record dubbed the industry’s “newest megafirm” at the time.
Now part of Tutor Perini’s Building Group, the company has a yearslong relationship with UCSF. It completed the institution’s $196 million Smith Cardiovascular Research Building in 2010 and its $173 million Bakar Precision Cancer Medicine Building in 2020, among other projects.
The contractor expects the new children’s hospital to be substantially complete in 2031.
