UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE, BIORESOURCES FACILITY
University of Newcastle
Callaghan Campus
Newcastle, New South Wales
Australia
Completed
2021
L2D Architects (Laboratory Architect)
with Denton Corker Marshall (Principal Architect)
The University of Newcastle Bioresources Facility is a flexible animal and research technology facility of nominally 4000m2 GFA. The facility is designed to cater for rodents in a variety of different regulatory zones including SPF breeding, SPF research, Quarantine, PC2, and Open Top Behavioural research. The facility has two operational floors with a roof plant level above.
While stated as a bioresources facility, this is really a laboratory building built to SPF/OGTR/PC2 containment in which animal holding is associated with research and technology areas. Research is undertaken in spaces where researchers, technologies and animals come together in a common containment area. All spaces are equally serviced and flexible, enabling procedure space to become additional animal holding, or animal holding converted to procedure/tech space without constructional change. This allows the facility to flex to suit research programme requirements.
Images provided by Richard Crookes Constructions.