Building Features
AgriBio includes the following special facilities:
- Headhouse
The head house is a separate building which supports a glasshouse complex providing growing spaces with different degrees of control, from growth cabinet rooms to controlled environment rooms, glasshouses, polyhouses (light-translucent shelters which exclude rain, wind and frost) and screen houses (light-translucent shelters providing wind and frost protection). The head house includes an insect laboratory, general laboratories and storage and potting rooms. - Controlled Environment Rooms
AgriBio has 77 controlled environment rooms (“CER”s) able to maintain temperatures down to -20 and up to +50 degrees Celsius. Temperatures can be controlled to +/- 0.5 degree, and humidity to +/- 5%. 36 rooms are fitted with growth lights. - Laboratories
All laboratories have natural light and an open-plan layout, with adjustable shelving and moveable benches. Many are quarantine-approved or achieve Physical Containment Level 2. Laboratories are adjacent to offices for easy access between the two spaces. - Conference Rooms and Meeting Rooms
AgriBio has conference capacity to seat 200 people, in addition to several smaller seminar rooms and 16 meeting rooms - Specialist Facilities
AgriBio has a Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imager (NMR) and specialist post mortem facilities
