Modular Student Common Rooms

A modular building from PF Modular provides a modern and adaptable space for a variety of uses, including a perfect space for your student common room. With a fluctuating student population and changing student requirements, a modular building gives you the flexibility to respond.

A modular building gives you the flexibility to configure collaborative spaces with all the facilities your students need to be comfortable and motivated.

Providing students with relaxing areas for downtime helps to promote better learning. A student common room from PF Modular allows students to get the most out of their learning experience.

Your new prefabricated student common room can be designed to your requirements, including light and airy spaces, comfortable furniture and versatile spaces to really promote a relaxing environment for students’ free time. Just a few of the considerations for a bespoke student common room include:

• Friendly communal areas – promote a relaxing atmosphere with light and comfortable fixtures and fittings.
• Configured spaces – create office spaces and meeting rooms for individual study or collaborative meetings.
• Kitchen and eating areas – provide food preparation areas to fuel studying minds.
• Multi-Storey – multi-storey options to really make the most of your space.

Choosing a modular building gives your establishment the flexibility to change around your shifting needs. The nature of a modular building means that you can reconfigure your space and move walls and spaces if your needs change.

If you are looking for a temporary solution for your student population, then you may want to consider a hire option from PF Modular.

We offer a variety of modular buildings to rent. In addition, our hire buildings can be customised to meet your specific needs.

Renting a modular building is a great, cost-effective solution for temporary space requirements.

Then when you no longer need the building, just give us a call, and we will arrange to have it collected.

Student common rooms should be welcoming to all. Our modular designs incorporate quiet zones, sensory-friendly furnishings, and accessible layouts to support students with SEN in social settings. Discover more about our modular SEN classrooms and how they foster inclusive social environments.

Won’t a common room be too noisy for the classrooms around it?

It’s the right question to ask, and it’s a design problem rather than a reason to avoid one. Sound insulation is specified in the building fabric, and where a common room sits close to teaching space, we’ll look at both the construction and the siting, which side the entrance opens onto, and where the noisy zone sits relative to the quiet one. Get it wrong, and you’ve created a problem; design for it, and you won’t notice.

Can we include a kitchen or servery?

Yes. Food preparation areas, serveries and eating spaces are common in these buildings, and they bring their own requirements — drainage, extraction, hygienic finishes, and enough power in the right places. Worth deciding early how far you want to go, because a vending-and-microwave corner and a full servery are very different builds.

How well does a common room hold up to heavy daily use?

Better than people expect, provided the specification reflects reality. A room used hard by a few hundred students needs durable flooring, robust wall finishes and fittings chosen for abuse rather than appearance alone. We’d rather specify that at the outset than have you replacing surfaces in three years.

Can the building be used outside normal hours or by community groups?

Often, yes, and it’s a genuine advantage of putting the space in its own building. A standalone common room can be opened up for evening or weekend use, clubs, community lettings, and revision sessions, without unlocking the rest of your site. If that’s part of the plan, tell us early: separate entrances, zoned access control, and independently controlled heating all need designing in rather than bolting on.

Can a common room be procured through the ESPO framework, or is it only for teaching spaces?

It isn’t limited to teaching spaces. PF Modular holds a place on ESPO Framework 953_26 (Modular Buildings), whose education lots cover the wider estate as well as classrooms, including social, staff and support accommodation. So a common room can be appointed through the same compliant, pre-tendered route as any other building. More on our ESPO framework supplier status.

Can the framework be used more than once?

Yes. A framework isn’t a single-use route; you can call off from it repeatedly for as long as it’s in place. For institutions working through a phased estate plan, that means a common room now and a teaching block next year can both go through the same agreement, with the same terms and no fresh procurement each time.