Room naming systems
Room naming at the University of Warwick is messy and inconsistent. This page is an attempt to outline the various systems used. It does not attempt to outline the many unique and individual names that are also used across campus.
"Prefix system"
The most common system for room naming is to name rooms in the following format
<prefix><floor>.<room number>
The prefix usually refers to a specific building, but can sometimes refer to a specific wing of a building. In these cases, the room name may not be unique. The ground floor of buildings are usually labelled "0" with subsequent floors labelled by their numerical digit. Room numbers are typically padded with a leading "0" to two digits. Some rooms have a letter after their room number.
Some buildings and rooms use a similar prefix-based format:
<prefix><room number>
Other slight variations exist.
List of prefixes
This list does not include accomodation blocks, although those use a similar prefix system.
| Prefix | Building | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| A | Gibbet Hill Academic Building | |
| Millburn House | Used in the side of the building closest to iHouse. | |
| Science Block A (Engineering Building) | Rooms are named in the standard format but without the ".".[1][2] | |
| Social Science FME | ||
| Zeeman Building | Used in the south-west portion of the building. | |
| AC | Argent Court | |
| B | Gibbet Hill Academic Building | |
| Science Block B (Science Concourse) | Rooms on floors other than floors two and three with this prefix in this block are named without the ".".[3] | |
| Social sciences B and C | ||
| Zeeman Building | Used in the south-east portion of the building, and for all rooms on the third floor. | |
| BSR | Biomedical Research Building | Just used in this building for BSR1 and BSR2. |
| Gibbet Hill Academic Building | This building contains BSR2-BSR6. | |
| C | Gibbet Hill Academic Building | Some rooms on the first floor in this part of the building are named in the format "C1.XX.X" where each "X" is a digit. |
| Science Block C | ||
| Social Sciences B and C | ||
| Zeeman Building | Used in the north-west portion of the building. | |
| CMR | University House | On the campus map, rooms in this building are named with a space between the prefix and the floor number.[4] |
| CS | Computer Science Building | Within the building, room names are often given without the prefix or ".". |
| D | Biomedical Research Building | Rooms are named in the standard format but without the ".".[5] |
| Science Block D (Engineering Building) | The campus map uses the standard format but, within the School of Engineering, the "." is usually omitted.[2] | |
| Social Sciences D and E | ||
| Zeeman Building | Used in the north-east portion of the building. | |
| E | Biomedical Research Building | Rooms are named in the standard format but without the ".".[6] |
| Science Block E | ||
| Social Sciences D and E | ||
| ESB | Science Block F (Engineering Building) | Used for the three Engineering Build Space rooms. Unusually, the room numbers for these rooms are all given to one digit, not two. |
| F | Millburn House | Rooms with this prefix in Milburn House are named in the format "F<number>". "F" likely stands for "first floor" as all rooms with this prefix are found on the first floor (with rooms on the ground floor using a corresponding "G" prefix). |
| Science Block F | The campus map uses the standard format but, within the School of Engineering, the "." is usually omitted.[2] | |
| FAB | Faculty of Arts Building | The Faculty of Arts Building has a "mezzanine" floor which is labeled "M0" in place of a number. |
| G | Millburn House | Rooms with this prefix in Milburn House are named in the format "G<number>". "G" likely stands for "ground floor" as all rooms with this prefix are found on the ground floor (with rooms on the first floor using a corresponding "F" prefix). |
| Science Block G | Rooms with this prefix in this block are named without the ".".[7] The basement floor (as determined by the campus map) has the floor number "0", the ground floor has the floor number "1", and the first floor has the floor number "2". | |
| GLT | Gibbet Hill Academic Building | Used for GLT1, GLT2, GLT3 and [[GLT4]. |
| H | Humanities Building | |
| Humanities Extension (Psychology) | ||
| IBR | Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research Building | The Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research Building has a basement floor, which uses "B" in place of a number in room names. |
| IH | Institute House | Other than IH0.01, all rooms in this building named with the prefix-room method use the format "IH0.01<letter>". |
| IHX | iHouse | |
| IMC | International Manufacturing Centre | |
| JX | Junction | |
| L | Engineering Management Building | |
| Library | Used for L2.07, L2.22 and L2.23. All three of these rooms are named without the "L" or "." on the campus map.[8] | |
| Mechanochemical Cell Biology Building | The ground floor of this building, as given by the campus map, is labelled as floor "1", while the first floor is "2".[9] | |
| Science Block E | Used for L3, L4 and L5. | |
| LIB | Library | Used for LIB1 and LIB2. |
| M | Gibbet Hill Academic Building | This part of the Gibbet Hill Academic Building has a basement, which is labelled with "B" in room names. |
| Radcliffe House | Used both for M1-M4 on the ground floor, and in the conventional way on the first floor. | |
| Senate House | Used for some rooms on the third floor above the main entrance. | |
| MAS | Materials and Analytical Sciences Building | The ground floor (as viewed by the campus map) is given the floor number "1" with further floors continuing the pattern. |
| MB | Mathematical Sciences Building | The ground floor (as viewed by the campus map) is given the floor number "1" with further floors continuing the pattern. |
| MD | Medical Teaching Centre | |
| MR | University House | Unusually, the room numbers for these rooms are all given to one digit, not two. |
| University House Annex | Just used for MR1.9. | |
| MS | Zeeman Building | Rooms named with this prefix do not have a floor number. Used for the main five lecture theatres in the building. In some Warwick systems, the third floor "B3.XX" rooms are referred to as "MS.B3.XX" or "MS_B3.XX", but this is decreasingly common.[10] |
| OC | The Oculus | |
| P | Physics Building | The ground floor (as viewed by the campus map) is given the floor number "1" with further floors continuing the pattern. |
| PS | Physical Sciences Building | |
| R | IIPSI Building | On the campus map, some rooms in this building on the first, second and third floors use the format "R:<floor number><room number>".[11] |
| Ramphal Building | ||
| Library | The computer rooms R0.39 and R0.41 are located on the ground floor of the library. | |
| RIL | Riley Court | Rooms on the ground floor of Riley Court use the unique format "RIL.G.<room code>". Other portions of the building are currently part of the University of Warwick Science Park so do not have standard room names. |
| S | Engineering Management Building | |
| Social Sciences North and South | ||
| SH | Senate House | |
| SMR | Senate House | Used uniquely for SMR 1.1 |
| T | Clinical Trial Unit | |
| UH | University House | |
| W | Westwood House | Rooms are named in the standard format but without the ".".[12] |
| WA | Avon Building | |
| WCE | Centre for Lifelong Learning Building | |
| WE | New Education Building | On the campus map, rooms in this building are named with a space between the prefix and the floor number.[13] |
| WT | Westwood Teaching Centre |
Named and numbered rooms
Some sets of rooms use a naming system that looks like:
<name> <number>
These are listed below.
| Name | Number range | Building | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chancellors Suite | 1-3 | Rootes Building | |
| Copper Rooms | 1-2 | SU Atrium[14] | |
| Cubicle | 1-4 | Humanities Extension (Psychology) | All part of H0.90. |
| Gallery | 1-3 | Warwick Arts Centre | Part of the Mead Gallery. |
| HR Meeting Room | 1-3 | University House[15] | |
| IDG Training Room | 1-2 | The Beehive[15] | |
| Learning Grid | 1-2 | University House | There are also un-numbered Learning Grids in the Rootes Building and the Gibbet Hill Academic Building. |
| Meeting Room | 2-4 | SUHQ[14] | |
| Music | 1-3 | Westwood Music Centre | |
| Panorama Suite | 1-3 | Rootes Building | |
| Pod | 1-4 | University House | |
| Presentation Room | 1-2 | University House[15] | |
| Room | 1-12 | University House | Mising 8. |
| Rootes Learning Grid Room | 1-2 | Rootes Building[15] | |
| Screen | 1-3 | Warwick Arts Centre | |
| Space | 1-26 | Radcliffe House | Space 2 is split into Space 2A and Space 2B. |
| 1-54 | Scarman House | ||
| 1-6 | Sports and Wellness Hub[15] | ||
| Studio | 1-4 | Sports and Wellness Hub[15] | |
| 1-2 | SU Atrium[14] | ||
| Supervision Area | 1-26 | Zeeman Building | Missing 22. |
| Wolfson | 1-3 | Library Extension[15] |
Building-specific
Some buildings have consistent naming schemes that don't fit with either of the above.
Conference accomodation
Hotel rooms in both Scarman House and Radcliffe House are named in the following format:
<one digit floor number><two digit room number>
The floor numbers are as expected in Scarman House; however, in Radcliffe House, the ground floor has a floor number of "1" and the first floor has a floor number of "2".
Cryfield Sports Pavillion
The changing areas on the ground floor of the Cryfield Sports Pavillion, along with one office, are simply assigned numbers from 1 to 27.
Energy Innovation Centre meeting rooms
Most meeting rooms on the second, third and fourth floors of the Energy Innovation Centre are named in the following format:
<one digit floor number><two digit room number>
Library
The Library primarily uses the following naming format:
<one digit floor number><two digit room number>
The ground floor has a floor number of "0". The accessible study rooms are named with this format.[16] However, some rooms are instead called either "01" or "02" - these names are not unique, even being repeated on some floors.
Materials Engineering Centre
Most rooms on floor one and two rooms on floor two of the Materials Engineering Centre are named in the following format:
<one digit floor number><two digit room number>
Floor one also contains a room named "01" and a room named "02". Most rooms on floor two are named in the following format:
<one digit floor number>.<two digit room numbner>
Sports and Wellness Hub
In addition to any other names given to some of the rooms, all rooms and spaces in the Sports and Wellness Hub are given a name in the following format:
<two digit floor number>.<three digit room number>
The basement floor uses "B1".
SUHQ
Most rooms in floors one and two of the SUHQ building are named in the following format:
<one digit floor number>.<one digit room number>
Room numbers are always one digit.
Warwick Business School
The Warwick Business School Building names rooms with the following format:
<one digit floor number>.<three digit room number>
Accomodation flat and bedroom names
- See also: Accomodation room naming
The way accomodation rooms are named varies from type to type. See the dedicated article for details.
Internal naming scheme
All rooms and spaces on campus have an "internal" code used by Estates. These are shown on the campus map when no other name is set. The format for these are:[17]
<campus>.<building>.<floor>.<room>
The campus numbers are as follows:
| Number | Campus | Range of room numbers |
|---|---|---|
| 01 | Main Campus | 000-479 |
| 02 | Gibbet Hill Campus | 000-044 |
| 03 | Westwood Campus | 000-077 |
| 04 | Stratford Innovation Campus | 000-205 |
| 06 | University Hospital Coventry & Warwickshire | 001-004 |
| 09 | Barford Boat House | 002 |
| 10 | Various "satellite campuses" based in Coventry | 001-003 |
| 11 | Various "satellite campuses" based in Birmingham | 001-002 |
| 12 | Warwick Innovation Centre | 001, 003 |
| 13 | China World Tower B | 001 |
| 15 | Port Talbot (Bay Technology Centre) | 001 |
| 16 | Westwood Business Park (The Beehive) | 000-006 |
| 17 | The Shard | 001 |
References
- ↑ "Science Block A, Science Block A, Central Campus" (undated), part of the campus map, published by MazeMap. Accessed on 2025-08-13.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Academic and Research Staff" by Peter Lever (2024-09-03) via warwick.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 2025-08-13. Accessed on 2025-08-13.
- ↑ "[hhttps://link.mazemap.com/EI3aimcZ Science Block B, Science Block B, Central Campus]" (undated), part of the campus map, published by MazeMap. Accessed on 2025-08-13.
- ↑ "University House, University House, Central Campus" (undated), part of the campus map, published by MazeMap. Accessed on 2025-08-13.
- ↑ "Biomedical Research, Biomedical Research, Central Campus" (undated), part of the campus map, published by MazeMap. Accessed on 2025-08-13.
- ↑ "Biomedical Research, Biomedical Research, Central Campus" (undated), part of the campus map, published by MazeMap. Accessed on 2025-08-13.
- ↑ "Science Block G, Science Block G, Central Campus" (undated), part of the campus map, published by MazeMap. Accessed on 2025-08-13.
- ↑ "Library, Library, Central Campus" (undated), part of the campus map, published by MazeMap. Accessed on 2025-08-13.
- ↑ "Mechanochemical Cell Biology, Mechanochemical Cell Biology, Central Campus" (undated), part of the campus map, published by MazeMap. Accessed on 2025-08-13.
- ↑ "Lectures" by Academic Technologist of Mathematics and Statistics (2024-09-21) via warwick.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 2025-08-13. Accessed on 2025-08-13.
- ↑ "IIPSI, IIPSI, Central Campus" (undated), part of the campus map, published by MazeMap. Accessed on 2025-08-13.
- ↑ "Westwood House, Westwood House, Central Campus" (undated), part of the campus map, published by MazeMap. Accessed on 2025-08-13.
- ↑ "New Education, New Education, Central Campus" (undated), part of the campus map, published by MazeMap. Accessed on 2025-08-13.
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 "SU/University Room Bookings" (undated), published by Warwick SU via warwicksu.com. Archived from the original on 2025-08-14. Accessed on 2025-08-14.
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 15.3 15.4 15.5 15.6 "Locally Timetabled Rooms" by IDG (2024-09-30) via warwick.ac.uk. Accessed on 2025-08-13.
- ↑ "Accessible study rooms" (2025-07-23), published by Library via warwick.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 2025-08-14. Accessed on 2025-08-14.
- ↑ All of the following information has been derived by observing the campus map and the Estates service desk system.
