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• Health09/20/2026@BuildDesk

  UC San Diego Starts Building Its New Hillcrest Hospital

  UC San Diego Medical Center, 200 W Arbor Dr, Hillcrest, San Diego, CaliforniaUC San Diego Health

  

  Starts 06/21/2027ESTIMATED50% CONFIDENCEin 271 daysUC San Diego says "major construction activities [are] anticipated to begin summer 2027", a season rather than a day.^[1]

  Major construction begins on the Hillcrest Medical Center Renewal Project, replacing the hospital built as the county hospital in 1963 with about 800,000 square feet holding roughly 300 licensed beds and a Level One trauma centre. The wider Hillcrest redevelopment is a ten-year, $2.5-3 billion programme finishing in 2033.

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• Health09/20/2026@BuildDesk

  UCSF Opens the Helen Diller Hospital at Parnassus Heights

  505 Parnassus Ave, San Francisco, CA 94143University of California, San Francisco

  

  Starts 01/01/2030ESTIMATED50% CONFIDENCEin 3.3 yearsUCSF's^[1] own project page says the hospital is "expected to open in 2030" without naming a month or day.

  The 15-floor, 880,000-square-foot hospital on Parnassus Avenue adds 324 beds and replaces seismically obsolete buildings at the heart of UCSF's oldest campus, at a reported cost of $4.3 billion. Twenty site and twelve hospital 'make ready' projects run from February 2022 through April 2027 to clear the way for it.

  $4.3B

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• Transport09/20/2026@BuildDesk

  San Diego Airport's Terminal 1 Reaches Its Final 30 Gates

  San Diego International Airport, 3225 N Harbor Dr, San Diego, CaliforniaSan Diego County Regional Airport Authority

  

  Starts 12/31/2028ESTIMATED50% CONFIDENCEin 2.3 yearsThe airport's own project page says the new Terminal 1 opens "19 [gates] in 2025 and the remaining 11 by 2028", giving a year rather than a day, so it sits at the end of that year.^[1]

  The second phase of San Diego International Airport's $3.8 billion Terminal 1 replacement adds the last 11 gates, two lounges, nine restaurants and three shops. Phase 1 opened with 19 gates in 2025 and phase 2 went to work that October.

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• Property09/20/2026@BuildDesk

  Kindred Affordable Apartments Opens in Cortez Hill

  Cortez Hill, Downtown San Diego, CaliforniaBRIDGE Housing

  

  Starts 02/01/2027ESTIMATED50% CONFIDENCEin 131 daysThe development "is planned to open in early 2027", a season rather than a day.^[1]

  An eight-storey, 138,000-square-foot building on the former County Family Court site in downtown San Diego, with 125 affordable apartments, a manager's unit and about 4,400 square feet of commercial space. BRIDGE Housing is developing it with the San Diego Housing Commission; VCC Construction finished the framing in July 2026.

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• Architecture09/20/2026@BuildDesk

  Los Angeles Breaks Ground on Its Convention Center Expansion

  Los Angeles Convention Center, 1201 S Figueroa St, Los Angeles, CA 90015City of Los Angeles

  

  Starts 10/01/2025CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE357 days agoThe report of the ceremony, published Wednesday, October 1, 2025, says "The city of Los Angeles broke ground Wednesday on a massive expansion of the L.A. Convention Center."^[1]

  Work began on a 190,000-square-foot addition that joins the South and West exhibit halls into one contiguous hall of more than 750,000 square feet, plus new meeting and multipurpose space. Construction pauses in 2028 so the centre can host Olympic fencing, taekwondo, wrestling and table tennis, with final completion in 2029.

  $2.6B

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• Education09/20/2026@BuildDesk

  First Relocated Beijing University Campuses Take Students in Xiong'an

  Xiong'an New Area, Hebei, ChinaMinistry of Education (China)

  

  Starts 09/01/2027SCHEDULED75% CONFIDENCEin 343 daysChina Daily^[1] reports the Ministry of Education calling for the "swift relocation of the first batch of university campuses from Beijing to Xiong'an New Area in time to welcome students by September 2027", a month with no day.

  The University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing Jiaotong University, China University of Geosciences (Beijing) and Beijing Forestry University began building Xiong'an campuses in November 2023 under a 'one university, two campuses' model that keeps their Beijing sites and shares staff, libraries and labs. Fifteen Beijing universities are to have campuses there, all of them finished by 2030.

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• Policy09/15/2026@BuildDesk

  China Expands Its Nationwide Skyscraper Height Caps

  Beijing, ChinaMinistry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development

  

  Starts 10/26/2021CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE4.9 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "Skyscrapers taller than 150 meters are not allowed to be built in cities with less than 3 million people".

  China's housing ministry tightened its skyscraper rules nationwide, barring any new building over 150m in cities under 3 million people and capping larger cities at 250m.

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• Health09/20/2026@BuildDesk

  CHOP Tops Out the Roberts Children's Health Tower

  Roberts Children's Health, 3401 Civic Center Boulevard, Philadelphia, PA 19104Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

  

  Starts 01/28/2026CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE238 days agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "On January 28, 2026, the final structural beam was placed at the top of Roberts Children's Health."

  The last structural beam went up on Children's Hospital of Philadelphia's 26-story inpatient tower in University City, 1.3 million square feet on Osler Circle with a private room for every patient. The $2.59 billion building opens in 2028.

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• Transport09/20/2026@BuildDesk

  Pudong Airport Starts Building Terminal 3

  Shanghai Pudong International Airport, Pudong New Area, Shanghai, ChinaShanghai Airport Authority

  

  Starts 11/20/2024CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE1.8 years agoThe Shanghai^[1] government's English news page reports that "Shanghai Pudong International Airport began the construction of its Terminal 3 on Nov 20".

  Terminal 3 broke ground south of the existing terminals as the centrepiece of Pudong's phase-IV expansion, designed for 50 million passenger trips a year. When the programme is finished the airport will have three terminals, one satellite terminal and four runways, with terminal floor space above 1.7 million square metres.

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• Transport09/20/2026@BuildDesk

  SFO's Terminal 3 West Expansion Opens

  Terminal 3, San Francisco International Airport, San Francisco, CA 94128San Francisco International Airport

  

  Starts 09/01/2027ESTIMATED50% CONFIDENCEin 343 daysThe builder's announcement says the expansion "is scheduled to open in the fall of 2027", a season rather than a day.^[1]

  Turner broke ground on 5 September 2024 on the $2.6 billion modernization of SFO's Terminal 3: a 200,000-square-foot expansion, 650,000 square feet of renovation and a new six-story building holding airline lounges and operational offices. The eastern addition follows in 2029.

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• Architecture09/20/2026@BuildDesk

  Fort Worth Finishes the Second Phase of Its Convention Center

  Fort Worth Convention Center, 1201 Houston Street, Fort Worth, TX 76102, United StatesCity of Fort Worth

  

  Starts 01/01/2030ESTIMATED50% CONFIDENCEin 3.3 yearsVisit Fort Worth's^[1] expansion page dates the "$606 million investment" second phase only to "Early 2030", a season rather than a day.

  Phase 2 tears down the convention center's 1968 arena and replaces it with a four-storey building and a new ballroom, finishing a rebuild whose first phase added 76,000 square feet and wrapped up in winter 2025. The centre stays open to events through the work.

  $606M

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• Health09/20/2026@BuildDesk

  UChicago Medicine's Cancer Pavilion Takes Its First Patients

  AbbVie Foundation Cancer Pavilion, 57th St between Maryland and Drexel Aves, Hyde Park, Chicago, IllinoisUniversity of Chicago Medicine

  

  Starts 03/20/2027ESTIMATED50% CONFIDENCEin 178 daysThe University of Chicago says the pavilion is "expected to open to patients in spring 2027", a season rather than a day.^[1]

  The $815 million AbbVie Foundation Cancer Pavilion, a seven-storey 575,000-square-foot building north of 57th Street in Hyde Park, is Illinois' first freestanding cancer centre, with 80 inpatient beds, 90 outpatient exam rooms and dedicated imaging, infusion and clinical trial space. It pulls together cancer services currently spread across at least five buildings on the campus.

  $815M

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