UC San Diego Hillcrest Medical Campus Redevelopment, Phase 1

San Diego

BEST PROJECT

Submitted by: DPR Construction

Owner: UC San Diego Health

General Contractor: DPR Construction

Civil Engineer: Latitude 33

Structural Engineer: KPFF Consulting Engineers

Mechanical Engineer: Glumac

Architect: Arcadis

Subcontractors: Dynalectric; AO Reed; Morley Builders

A 255,000-sq-ft outpatient building is UC San Diego Hillcrest Medical Campus’ first major construction project in more than 30 years. Opened in May 2025, the facility features four of the tallest prefabricated elevators ever installed in North America in its adjacent nine-level, 1,850-stall parking garage. They were shipped from Illinois complete with cabs, rails, machinery and shaft liners, and all four were craned in and stood up within a week.

But with 60 years of undocumented utilities running beneath the Hillcrest campus, a combination of potholing, as-builts and laser scanning came together to create a single 3D map.…