A combination of new, old and renovated space, the Animal Care Unit is 1,875 square metres with 36 animal rooms. Eight of these rooms are part of a new Level 2 disease containment area with rooms designed to hold a range of species from laboratory animals to horses and cattle. The Level 2 area is is also equipped with shower in/out facilities, a lab and necropsy area. The Animal Care Unit's conventional animal area has rooms for animal experimentation, an aquatic toxicology area and kenneling with outside runs.