Riot Games at Element LA & Westside Media Center

Riot Games partnered with PLANNET to relocate their headquarters from Santa Monica, California to two separate sites in the Westside of Los Angeles. The first site is known as Element LA and contains most of the workplace functions and amenities. The five buildings are mostly single-story structures, with Building 1 having a second floor/mezzanine and Building 5 with two floors and an underground garage. Riot Games relocated 1,500 employees to the Element LA site filling it to its maximum capacity. The five buildings consist of the following:

• Building 1 (149,423 USF) Main Entry and workspaces
• Building 2 (32,660 USF) Amenities /Food Service
• Building 3 (19,717 USF) Workspace and some special functions
• Building 4 (28,323 USF) Workspace function
• Building 5 (33,000 USF) Storage and workspace

The second site is located across the street from Element LA on Olympic Boulevard and is known as the Westside Media Center. This site houses the Battle Arena along with associated production functions and some workplace functions.

The combined sites include a 1,300 SF server room, a 1,675 SF Network Operations Center (NOC), 1,000 SF central equipment room, theaters, sound rooms, composing rooms, mastering rooms, production, and audio control rooms, edit rooms, and other technical rooms. The final design includes over 20 sound rooms, including a mastering studio.

PLANNET provided full design, bidding, and implementation oversight for both projects. PLANNET conducted the programming, provided cost estimations, created cabling and security low voltage drawing sets, full design (including systems drawings, architectural integration, and A/E coordination), full technical specifications, bidding support, construction administration, commissioning oversight and close-out representation for the following technologies: structured communications cabling system and infrastructure; and security infrastructure design and systems coordination.

PLANNET also provided technology project management and coordinated all aspects of the cable infrastructure, audiovisual and security systems to be integrated into the new facility.