Published by the MIT News Office at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass.

Biology Bid Goes to Macomber

1-1-1	Macomber/MIT Biology Building	12/12/91


$50 MILLION
Biology Building Bid Goes to Macomber
MIT has awarded the approximately $50 million construction contract for 
the MIT Biology Building to the low bidder, the George B.H. Macomber Co. 
of Boston. 

The first action will be to put down a five-foot thick reinforced 
concrete mat as the foundation for the 250,000 square foot building, 
according to MIT Senior Vice President William R. Dickson.

The site for the six-story structure, on Ames Street at the corner of 
Main Street, has been excavated under a separate contract. Once 
completed in September 1993, it will house 100 four-person research 
laboratories and administrative headquarters for the MIT Biology 
Department. The plans include a number of state-of-the-art features such 
as an electron microscope suite. 

The new structure will connect to adjacent buildings to continue MIT's 
network of pedestrian and service circulation. Architects for the 
building are Goody, Clancy & Associates, Inc., Boston. 

Mr. Dickson said the Macomber Company was the low bidder of six selected 
bidders. The firm also built for MIT the Rotch Library, completed last 
year for the Architecture Department, and, in 1963-1965, the Uncas A. 
Whitaker Building (Building 56) for the Biology Department.