SUNSET TIME & PENDRY HOTEL

Contractor: AECOM / HUNT CONSTRUCTION GROUP, INC.

Sunset Times, also known as the Pendry West Hollywood, is located in the City of West Hollywood. Nestled at the intersection of W. Sunset Blvd. and N. Olive Drive. This was the original location of the iconic old House of Blues, and now this property as has been added to West Hollywood’s prestigious list of hotels and condominiums. The project consists of two buildings separated by a motor court, a hotel building at the North and a luxury condominium building at the South. The existing ground surface had a descending grade from W Sunset Blvd to Fountain Ave. at approximately 78 ft in elevation change. This presented a very distinctive and challenging aspect of the project that Calex Engineering successfully planned and negotiated strategies to complete the project. Below the motor court, lies an active Hollywood Fault Zone, dividing the Hotel and Condominium buildings into two unique sites. While ground water was encountered at the hotel site, its absence at the Condominium site was attributed to the separation of the two sites by the active Hollywood Fault Zone. The project utilized 213 soldier piles, 688 tiebacks, and 72 corner braces. 77,655 SF of wall was shored, spanning a total perimeter length of 1,582 LF. Excavation depths ranged from 12 ft to 92 ft, with 109,300 CY of soil removed from the site in bottom dump trucks. The deep excavation required the use of up to 8 rows of tiebacks to retain the earth. Calex Engineering executed both mass excavation and shoring activities to complete the project ahead of schedule and within budget.