Ray and Dagmar Dolby Regeneration Medicine Building
San Francisco, California

The new research building will house the stem cell and developmental biology departments at UC San Francisco. The 80,000 square foot facility will house wet labs, lab support and offices. The base isolated building, located on a congested and steeply sloping site underlain by highly fractured Franciscan Formation and old landslide features, will be an elevated structure supported on a “platform” rising up to 70 feet above the slope. Major geotechnical issues include the development of criteria for retaining walls that extend up to 60 feet at tower locations and development of axial and lateral capacity and stiffness criteria for drilled piers or micropiles in collaboration with the structural engineer. R&C is providing geotechnical engineering services.