Room Dividers Defined
Typical Applications of Room Dividers
Types of Room Dividers
Selecting Room Dividers

Room Dividers Defined

Room dividers in commercial, institutional and medical settings are defined as semi-permanent walls or portable walls in a modular format as to allow for the greatest flexibility in room design. Ranging from more compact folding room dividers to more permanent modular wall room dividers, room dividers can be used in a variety of applications.

Typical Applications of Room Dividers

Room dividers and their associated applications vary based upon the criteria of the environment where the room dividers will be located.

Church Settings
Room dividers allow larger rooms such as banquet halls to be divided into small, more intimate rooms. A typical example of room dividers in a church setting would be their use to establish Sunday school or study classrooms. The use of room dividers allows churches, parishes and synagogues to maximize space while allowing flexibility.

Educational Institutions
Whether in public or private school or college/university applications, room dividers provide the greatest flexibility for educational centers. Classrooms are no longer limited to the size of physical walls, rather, they can be divided or expanded as needed based upon enrollment with room dividers.

Corporate, Commercial and Government Environments
With many companies downsizing or moving to new buildings, the modular nature of room dividers allow commercial and corporate environments to create offices, conference rooms and workspaces simply by erecting room dividers. Agencies can capitalize on less costly warehouse spaces by using room dividers to create office settings including reception areas, office spaces, break and conference rooms.

Medical Settings
New HIPPA standards have brought to the forefront the mandatory need for patient privacy. Rather than erecting costly, permanent wall structures, room dividers can be used to provide privacy from admission workspaces to portable triage/exam stations.

Restaurant/Food Industry
In cafeteria and restaurant environments, room dividers provide flexible alternatives to traditional walls. Rooms for catering events such as wedding receptions can easily be divided from the rest of a dining hall to accommodate a crowd. In the same respect, room dividers can provide more intimate and private dining groups to reduce noise and traffic.

Hospitality Environments
With tradeshows frequently held in hotel ballrooms, room dividers provide an excellent and efficient method to easily section booths within a catering hall or ballroom. In addition, room dividers can be used to make better use of larger areas (e.g. allowing multiple conferences, tradeshows, training programs, etc.) Room dividers provide an affordable and effective method for hospitality environments to maximize what would normally stand as unused space.

Types of Room Dividers

At RoomDividers.org, we manufacture a variety of room dividers including:

• Floor Supported, Sliding Room Dividers
• Folding Room Dividers
• Modular Wall Systems and Modular Room Dividers
• Clean Room Dividers

Selecting Room Dividers

Selecting room dividers for your specific environment and application. Please contact us for a consultation. Before determining which of our room dividers are best suited to your needs, the following should be considered:

1. Describe your business. (e.g. commercial/corporate, government, educational, church, etc.)
2. Do you current have or are you currently using some form of room dividers? If so, what kind of room dividers are you using (e.g. curtain room dividers, modular room dividers, etc.) and why are you looking to replace your existing room dividers (e.g. need to be updated, current application isn’t functional in the environment, etc.)
3. Describe what you would like to accomplish with your room dividers? (e.g. divide a large banquet hall as needed, create semi-permanent office space, etc.)
4. What type of environment will the room dividers be used in? (e.g. cafeteria/restaurant/catering, office, medical, etc.)
5. What is the size of the room you would like to divide and how many additional rooms would you like to create by using room dividers?
6. Will the rooms you create with room dividers be semi-permanent (e.g. office spaces) or do you need the flexibility to erect/take down the room dividers to allow for multi-functional spaces (e.g. gymnasiums, banquet halls, etc.)
7. How often will you be altering the setup of your room dividers? (e.g. never—we plan to install semi-permanent office spaces; weekly—we plan to use the room dividers to create classrooms in our banquet hall; daily—we plan to use room dividers to divide our ballrooms into conference rooms, etc.)
8. What is the location of the space that needs to be divided with room dividers? (e.g. warehouse space, basement banquet hall, school gymnasium, etc.)
9. What kinds of features would you like to have with your room dividers? (e.g. sound absorbing, glass inserts, swing doors, enamel marker boards, tack boards.)
10. What is your budget?
11. Do you have onsite workers or volunteers to help with installation? How much time do you have for installation? (e.g. 2-3 hours, several days, etc.)
12. Are there any other factors which need to be considered when selecting room dividers? (e.g. need for maximum privacy for use in security clearance applications or medical exam/triage rooms)