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Rendering and Work Site​

This new Rocky Mountain Laboratories – Comparative Medicine Center (RCMC) will be a three-story vivarium facility, plus interstitial and mechanical support spaces, totaling 120,000 gross square feet. It will contain 35 holding rooms, 28 procedure rooms and 24 specialty rooms along with autoclaves and cage washrooms. This new vivarium facility will provide important program support including all Biosafety Level 2 (BSL-2) breeding, holding and experimental programs, as well as quarantine for animals destined for BSL-3 and BSL-4 studies in laboratories at RML.  The new facility will provide expanded capabilities for studies with exotic species along with special imaging equipment, histopathology and a multi-vector insectary. 

Project Officer: Jack Veldboom
Cost: $125M  
Completion: January 2024