Thursday, February 19, 2026

Tour of the All-Electric UCI Medical Center The UCI Medical Center—comprising a Hospital, Ambulatory Care Center, Central Plant, and parking structure—is the first all-electric hospital in the nation. While delivering the innovative clinical programs required of a prestigious academic medical, teaching, and research institution, the project seamlessly integrates an optimized patient experience with advanced energy efficiency, solar control, and carbon-free building operations.  The UCI Medical Center leverages its unique adjacency to natural wetlands to create a healthy and restorative outdoor environment for patients and staff. The integrated inpatient and outpatient facilities represent a paradigm shift in clinical operations, enabling more efficient workflows and leading-edge patient care. The design-build team—Hensel Phelps and CO Architects—working collaboratively with their client, UCI, explored innovative strategies to cost-effectively implement specialty clinical programs while achieving carbon-free, energy-efficient operations. Learning Objectives: Attendees will gain insight into how the design-build team leveraged innovative planning strategies to address a rapidly changing healthcare delivery system while ensuring long-term flexibility and future-proofing. Attendees will gain insight into how the design-build team implemented a program and budget alignment phase to prioritize innovative healthcare strategies without increasing the project’s budget or causing schedule delays. Attendees will gain insight into healthcare-specific design challenges of all-electric hospital design and how integrating these systems supports the transition toward carbon-free operations. Attendees will gain insight into how the project integrates an optimized patient experience with innovative approaches to energy efficiency, solar control, and carbon-free building operations. Date: February 19, 2026 Learning Units: AIA LUs Pending Presentation: 4:30 – 6:30 PM  Location: UCI Health 19210 Jamboree Rd Irvine, CA 92612 *A map for parking will be provided to attendees the day before the event. Cost: AIAOC Members - $20| Non-Members - $40 *Tickets are non-refundable but can be transferred to another individual to attend the tour.   REGISTER HERE

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