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A year and a half after breaking ground, a multi-million dollar hospital tower has reached a key construction milestone. McCarthy Building Cos., based in St. it surpassed the $3.7 billion California Tower on Feb. 6, according to a press release from UC Davis Health.
McCarthy started the project in 2024. The project contract is a progressive design-build delivery method. The tower is part of an eight-year doubling of UC Davis’ Sacramento campus, which is the largest health system capital expansion in the United States today, according to the release.
Once completed, the 14-storey hospital and five-storey pavilion will include operating theatres, an imaging center and new facilities for the existing pharmacy and burns units. In addition, the tower will also add approximately 334 inpatient beds.
The stakeholders of the project gathered to sign the beam according to the common tradition before its ceremonial placement in celebration of the milestone. UC Davis Health hopes to open the California Tower in 2030.
The building is the latest piece of UC Davis Health’s Vision 2030 plan, which will see the campus expand from 3.6 million square feet of building space to more than 7 million square feet, according to the release.
Other projects at UC Davis Health’s Sacramento campus include the $253 million central services plant expansion. Tutor Perini announced in December that its subsidiary Rudolph and Sletten won the contract to build the two-story, 32,000-square-foot building.
This isn’t the only recent healthcare project milestone for McCarthy. In December, the contractor The work on the Plaza West Tower has been completed at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis.
Data center builds continue to account for the bulk of construction health as other sectors see softer demand. The sanitary construction, however, contributed global growth of construction planning by the end of 2025, according to the Dodge Momentum Index. However, Dodge’s first report of 2026 indicated a slowdown in health project planning to start the year.
