Made possible through a landmark gift by the Weill Family Foundation, the UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences leverages UCSF’s bench-to-bedside excellence.
UC San Francisco, Joan and Sanford I. Weill Neurosciences Building
The Joan and Sanford I. Weill Neurosciences Building at the University of California San Francisco unites UCSF’s departments of neurology, psychiatry and behavioral sciences, and neurological surgery to solve the most complex challenges in brain health through research, education, and patient care. The Weill Neurosciences Building is the first center at UCSF to integrate neuroscience research and clinical care. It was designed to fuel connectivity and collaboration and bring together multi-departmental clinics and clinical research centers along with dedicated spaces laboratory science, engineering, and computational research and support. As a cross-disciplinary hub, the building drives advances aimed at new treatments for disorders of the brain and nervous system while providing expert and compassionate care for patients.
Features:
- Research labs
- Accessible learning spaces
- Concrete flat plate gravity system with Special Concrete Shearwalls
Photos by Tim Griffith.
Project Stats
Client
DPR Construction,
Mark Cavagnero Associates,
SmithGroup,
University of California,
Square Footage
282,900
Completion Date
October 2021
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Project Team
Adam Hugo-Holman
Principal
I lived in Plzen, Czechoslovakia as a kid for a year while my parents ...
Ray Pugliesi
Senior Principal
I enjoy boating and tinkering on projects at our ‘family’ cabin ...
Adam Hugo-Holman
Principal
San Francisco
- (415) 354-6485
- aholman@degenkolb.com
Education
M.S., Structural Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, 2007
B.S., Structural Engineering, University of California, San Diego, 2006
Registration
CA, Structural Engineer, License No. 5943
CA, Civil Engineer, License No. 75002
Why did you go into structural engineering?
My high school physics teacher, Doc Michaels, and grandfather, Harold Holman. Doc Michaels was an incredibly dynamic and a bit eccentric teacher who first exposed me to statics and dynamics and how you could calculate how long it would take a bowling ball to fall from the top of our high school gymnasium. My grandfather was a lifelong contractor who let me tag along and help out on many small projects around his house. I even asked my parents to call me “Little Harold” for a couple years.
Little Known Fact
I lived in Plzen, Czechoslovakia as a kid for a year while my parents started an English speaking school.
Question of the Day
What’s your favorite way to get to work?
2007 Vespa LX150
Ariel Creagh
Associate
Los Angeles
- (415) 354-6458
- acreagh@degenkolb.com
Education
B.S., Architectural Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, 2011
M.S., Civil Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, 2013
Why did you go into structural engineering?
The “Imagineer That” commercial on the Disney Channel inspired me to become an engineer during a segment about designing rollercoasters. It taught me that engineering was the combination of math, science, and creativity.
Question of the Day
Favorite architect?
Santiago Calatrava.
Melissa Vickery
Associate Principal
Oakland
- (510) 250-1247
- mvickery@degenkolb.com
Education
B.S., Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, 2007
M.S., University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, 2010
Registration
CA, Civil Engineer, License No. 79100
CA, Structural Engineer, License No. 6237
LEED AP
Why did you go into structural engineering?
The program at Cal Poly is called Architectural Engineering which lured me in because it sounded like it was a good mix of architecture (which I loved) and math (which I also loved).
Little Known Fact
I spent a year abroad in high school.
Question of the Day
Apple or Samsung?
Apple.
Ray Pugliesi
Senior Principal
San Francisco
- (415) 354-6451
- pugliesi@degenkolb.com
Education
B.S., Civil Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, 1987
M.S., Structural Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, 1989
Registration
CA, Structural Engineer, License No. 3968
CA, Civil Engineer, License No. 48086
Why did you go into structural engineering?
I grew up working construction in my father’s business. He relentlessly insisted I not “do what he does and ruin your body AND that I go to college”. And so I did, and Structural Engineering was what came most naturally.
Little Known Facts
I enjoy boating and tinkering on projects at our ‘family’ cabin at Shasta Lake.
Vegetarian.
Reuse is a hobby, and it’s not hoarding.
Question of the Day
What hobby would you go into if time and money weren’t an issue?
Salvage/Reuse Company.
