Monash Uni E-Sports

Six weeks, one empty floor, a lot of cable.

An esports room is a data room with an audience. Every station needs its own power and network, the network needs a rack that can be tested end to end, and the lighting has to look good on a livestream as well as in the room.

The floor was bare in early November. The lights were running in the week before Christmas.

Every port tested before it was handed over.

The switchboard was fitted out and the data rack terminated in parallel with the builder's partitions. Each cable run was certified with a tester at the rack, so the university's IT team took over a network with results, not assumptions.

A ceiling that changes with the game.

Linear fittings run the length of the ductwork and change colour from a wall control, so the room can go red for a match, blue for training and white for cleaning. All four of these frames were taken on the same afternoon.