Uploaded March 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
In just a few short years, UC San Francisco’s Parnassus Heights campus will be transformed by the arrival of new, state-of-the-art buildings including the UCSF Health Helen Diller Hospital and UCSF Barbara and Gerson Bakar Research and Academic Building.
Before that, construction cranes will raise pieces of the new buildings into their place – a skyward signal of the forward progress being made at UCSF’s historic campus.
The first of those cranes arrived at Parnassus Heights last month.
It’s a 278-foot “T” shaped crane situated at the center of the site where the Bakar Research and Academic Building will sit on the western side of campus. The state-of-the-art structure will house research programs for cancer, microbiology, diabetes, immunology and cell biology, be the new home of the UCSF School of Nursing and support graduate-level education across UCSF.
Check out the full article on our website - https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2025/02/429541/see-exciting-new-tower-cranes-building-future-ucsf-parnassus-heights
Drone footage provided by Derek Kersey, Field Engineer, Hensel Phelps
In just a few short years, UC San Francisco’s Parnassus Heights campus will be transformed by the arrival of new, state-of-the-art buildings including the UCSF Health Helen Diller Hospital and UCSF Barbara and Gerson Bakar Research and Academic Building.
Before that, construction cranes will raise pieces of the new buildings into their place – a skyward signal of the forward progress being made at UCSF’s historic campus.
The first of those cranes arrived at Parnassus Heights last month.
It’s a 278-foot “T” shaped crane situated at the center of the site where the Bakar Research and Academic Building will sit on the western side of campus. The state-of-the-art structure will house research programs for cancer, microbiology, diabetes, immunology and cell biology, be the new home of the UCSF School of Nursing and support graduate-level education across UCSF.
Check out the full article on our website - https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2025/02/429541/see-exciting-new-tower-cranes-building-future-ucsf-parnassus-heights
Drone footage provided by Derek Kersey, Field Engineer, Hensel Phelps
