Southern California

UCI Health Facilities

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Looking to expand, UCI Health, a part of the University of California, Irvine, acquired four medical centers and their associated buildings in Southern California. The acquisition included medical centers, medical office buildings, physician practice centers, and parking structures. UCI Health retained SGH to perform structural and seismic due diligence assessments and determine seismic performance ratings for each building.

SGH evaluated the existing healthcare buildings in context with the University of California Seismic Safety Policy (UC Policy) and the Alquist Hospital Seismic Safety Act (AHSSA). Highlights of our work include:

Collaborating with UCI Health to determine which buildings provide general acute care and must meet the California Department of Health Care Access and Information requirements and those buildings that provide administrative, ambulatory, or clinical services and fall under the purview of the University of California, Office of the President (UCOP)
Reviewing drawings and reports and visiting the facilities to confirm the existing structural and lateral-load-resisting systems generally match the available drawings
Developing and executing exploratory investigation programs to identify key structural elements when no drawings were available
Performing analyses of the buildings utilizing the FEMA P-154 methodology and the ASCE 41-17 Tier 1 and 2 methodologies
Identifying potential engineering and construction work associated with bringing the buildings into compliance with the UC Policy
Providing UCI Health with an opinion of probable construction costs to achieve jurisdictional compliance
Developing reports for each building for UCI Health to submit to UCOP
Helping UCI Health understand compliance policy schedule requirements and providing input regarding compliance strategies