UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE, BIORESOURCES FACILITY
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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.