W Hotel

Work

Bringing Energy and Creativity to Downtown San Diego: Engineering a hotel with dynamic social spaces

DCI Engineers provided structural design for this unique 187,000-sf luxury hotel. The hotel features fully wired event and meeting rooms, as well as an attached restaurant, lounge and rooftop Beach Bar that were incorporated into the adjacent 100-year Old Columbia Square building.

Location:

San Diego, California

Square Feet:

187,000

Stories:

Service:

Structural

Industries:

Hospitality & Gaming

Primary Material:

Concrete, Masonry

Project Highlights

Includes 261 luxury hotel rooms.
Contains 19 stories above-grade, along with three below-grade parking levels, and a swimming pool located on the second floor.
Constructed using post-tensioned concrete construction over concrete columns for all elevated slabs.
The foundation is conventional spread footings and the lowest parking level is constructed below the water table and designed to resist hydrostatic uplift pressures.
Perimeter ductile concrete moment frames provide the lateral force resisting system.