Facilities
Discover our world-class facilities, campus and accommodation.
Our facilities
ANU is home to a range of world-class facilities used for research and teaching.
Bandalang Studio
The Bandalang Studio is an Indigenous engineering design studio at ANU honouring Indigenous Knowledge Systems in innovation, design, research and teaching.
Big Dish
The ANU Generation II Big Dish solar concentrator is the world’s largest paraboloidal dish solar concentrator, with 489 m2 of mirror aperture area.
Gadi
ANU is home to Gadi, a high-powered supercomputer at the National Computational Infrastructure (NCI) that is used by researchers across the University and country.
Nano lab
Our Nanotechnology Research Lab focuses on the integration of nanomaterials into devices
Robotics and drones
We conduct fundamental research for unmanned vehicle technologies, particularly aerial robots.
Solar simulator
A new high-flux solar simulator for high-temperature solar thermal and thermochemical research.
Rapid Prototyping Facility
Our ANU engineering space to experiment, investigate, prototype and solve problems.
Virtual tours
Tour the Engineering facilities
Take a virtual tour of the engineering facilities and equipment at ANU. Our School of Engineering has exceptional teaching and learning environments.
Walk through and discover our solar simulator, nano and biotech labs, 3D printing lab, the Engineering Makerspace (Rapid Prototyping Facility) and the 21st century learning spaces in the Birch Building.
360 tour
At ANU, you will have the opportunity to join an exceptional teaching and learning environment, offering some of the best engineering and computing programs in the world. Walk through and discover:
- our solar simulator, nano and biotech labs
- 3D printing lab
- the ANU Engineering Rapid Prototyping Facilities
- the 3A Institute (School of Cybernetics)
- the Hanna Neumann Building
- GADI, Australia’s fastest supercomputer.
NOTE: This is a 360 tour. Make sure you use your mouse to move the screen around to see everything.
Campus tours
Experience our world-class campus for yourself! ANU offers guided tours of our campus (subject to availability). For more information and to book a tour, visit Future student campus tours.
You can also check out our virtual tours around our teaching spaces, study areas, cafes, sporting facilities, learning centres and student residences.
ANU accommodation
Discover what it’s like to live in accommodation at ANU.