Steel Construction Vol 40 no 6 - International Steel Structures | Page 10

SAISC PROJECTS

Engineering
the

Heart of the City
By Lukki Lam, SE, and Eric Ko, SE

The original article was published in Modern Steel Construction, the official journal of the American Institute of Steel Construction.
We thank them for their kind permission to reproduce the article.

San Francisco General Hospital came into being not long after
the gold rush of 1849. More than a century-and-a-half later and
following several expansions, its latest iteration was helped along by
and named for a pioneer of a different sort of gold rush – the social
media boom – Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. Along with wife
Priscilla Chan, Zuckerberg provided $75 million in funding for the
new facility, the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and
Trauma Center (ZSFGH).

Project Team

Located at the foot of Potrero Hill in San Francisco’s Mission District,
the new 284-bed hospital is a 550,000-gross-sq.-ft steelframed, baseisolated building with seven stories above grade and two basement
levels. The facility replaces the most recent SFGH, which was built
in 1974 and did not comply with the seismic safety requirements

Owner:
San Francisco Department of Public Health
General Contractor:
Webcor Builders, San Francisco
Architect:
Fong and Chan Architects, San Francisco
Structural Engineers:
Arup in collaboration with Bello and
Associates Structural Engineers, a Local
Business Enterprise participant, San
Francisco
Steel Team:
Fabricator an