Engineering

ARC Parking Lot Safety Improvement Project

UC Davis Design and Construction Management is improving the ARC Parking Lot (Lot 25) to create a smoother, clearer and more predictable experience for people no matter their preferred mode of transportation.

West Village Open Space Improvements

The West Village Open Space Project will create an agricultural buffer between the West Village residential area and the nearby teaching and research fields. This buffer will help manage stormwater and support native wildlife on the west campus.

Russell Field Sports Lighting

In order to support growing Campus Recreation programs and their participants, lighting has been added to Russell Field to expand the time the field space can be used.

Campus Outdoor Lighting and Security

In order to keep campus safe for the entire campus community and beyond, security infrastructure is being added, including the installation of new security cameras, call boxes and outdoor lighting.

Wolfskill Agricultural Well Replacement

The UC Davis Wolfskill Experimental Orchards is a valuable research resource utilized by the Department of Plant Sciences for plant breeding, germplasm evaluation, and horticultural and physiological studies. To support the research orchard, a new irrigation well has been constructed to replace an aging well and provide a reliable water supply for the site.

Campus commits $55.5 million to the next phase of Big Shift

Earlier this month, the Chancellor and the Chancellor’s Committee on Campus Planning and Design, or CCCPD, endorsed moving forward with a $55.5 million investment of campus funds for the next phase of the Big Shift – a heating infrastructure overhaul that represents a crucial step in reducing the university’s fossil fuel usage.

Your House on Campus

Just for the fun of it, we wondered what would it take to renovate your house into a campus facility? Let’s suppose this facility is located on campus and you request that we renovate the living room into a classroom, the kitchen into a lab, and the bedroom into an office. Let’s take a walk through your house to see what we will need to do.

Why Does It Cost So Much?

UC Davis Design and Construction management provides increasingly complex facilities under shortening timelines and proliferating code and regulatory requirements. Underpinning our efforts to meet these challenges, we continue to hear the same question echoed by our governing boards, administration and customers: “Why does is cost so much?"

Pathway Improvement Project and Detours

With the exciting completion of the Teaching and Learning Complex and the Diane Bryant Engineering Student Design Center coming soon, DCM will be hard at work this summer improving surrounding bike and pedestrian paths to ensure everyone can traverse and the district comfortably.