The J. David Gladstone Institute Building is a ground-up six-story 185,000 SF research and lab facility that
was constructed on the UCSF Mission Bay campus in San Francisco.

It includes two “firsts” in the city’s rich annals of large-scale building projects. The
structure was the first privately financed life-sciences research facility to be
approved by the city’s building department and its also the first major steel-frame
building to use an un-bonded brace-frame system.

The Japanese-made, diagonal braces act like automobile shock absorbers during an earthquake,
to absorb most of the lateral forces of a temblor.

The building put three separate research labs–the Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases, Institute of Virology and Immunology, and Institute of Neurogenerative Diseases–under one roof.

Silverman & Light provided electrical engineering and lighting design for the $75M research building as
part of the University of California San Francisco’s new 43-acre Mission Bay campus.

Architect: NBBJ Architects
General Contractor: Rudolph & Sletten