Research facilities will be predominantly housed in the ARTORG main building at Stauffacherstrasse 78.  Existing laboratory facilities dedicated to the SRC, covering over 250 m2, include a Class 2 biology lab with tissue culture and preparation space, a cadaver preparation and surgical simulation room, a spinal testing lab, a histology lab, molecular biology lab, electronics lab and a general materials testing lab.

Existing equipment includes: two servo-hydraulic testing machines, a custom-built spinal loading simulator, equipment for histological processing of hard and soft tissue specimens, light microscopy and image analysis facilities, real-time PCR equipment, surgical navigation hardware, two image intensifiers and a pool of high-power workstations for computational modeling. Access is provided to an in-house machining and prototyping workshop. The SRC shares ownership of a Micro CT 40 scanner housed in the Department of Clinical Research. Laser confocal and scanning electron microscopy, mass spectrometry, cell-sorting and other specialized equipment are available on a per-use cost-sharing basis within the university campus.

Space for the senior research coordinator and a research nurse is available within the facilities of the orthopaedic clinic. The clinical infrastructure includes a compre- hensive electronic patient database, access to a digital x-ray archive (PACS). The University of Bern provides online access to all relevant journals. The facilities in the operating theatres are comprehensive: High quality C-arms are available, including a 3-D Iso-C machine, navigation, microscope with digital imaging possibility and permanently installed OR cameras for live surgery recording. 

Close neighbourhood and partnership with the Institute for Evaluative Research in Orthopaedic Surgery (IEFO) , also located in the ARTORG building, provides us with expertise and equipment for implementation and hosting of medical registries and multicenter studies. Thanks to the sophisticated technology of the MEMdoc documentation portal, study content can be designed and uploaded in short time periods, and with interfaces to PACS and barcode based implant tracking systems, medical device studies are the ideal investigations to be conducted on MEMdoc. A team of clinicians, methodologists and programmers rounds-off the profile of IEFO as a center of excellence for medical documentation.