Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory Dedicates Research Facility

Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory (MDIBL) dedicated its LEED-certified research facility in August of 2008 in Salisbury Cove, Maine. Doubling the footprint of MDIBL’s existing building, the 15,000-sf facility houses the Morris Center for the Environment and Human Health, the Boylan Center for Cellular and Molecular Physiology, the Marine DNA Sequencing and Analysis Facility, laboratory space for six research groups, and a teaching lab. The construction manager for the $7.1 million project was Nickerson and O’Day of Bangor. The facility was designed by WBRC Architects and Engineers, also of Bangor, with Allied Engineering of Portland, Maine, as commissioning agent. The facility uses 48% less energy and 46% less water than similar laboratory buildings.