The 287,000 SF Ford Environmental Science & Technology Building (ES&T) is the second phase of the Biotechnology Campus at the Georgia Institute of Technology. The building provides essential research and instructional facilities for faculty, staff and graduate students from the College of Science and the College of Engineering. houses various research programs from the College of Engineering, College of Science and the Technology Development Center (TDC), a Georgia Research Alliance funded technology transfer incubator for start-up companies. As an environmental sciences research hub, this facility braids scientific and engineering disciplines in Atmospheric Science & Technology, Environmental Technology, Environmental Chemistry, Water Systems, Coastal/Oceanographic Science and Engineering, Sustainable Technologies, and Industrial and Urban Ecology.

The $58 million Ford ES&T Building was built with a combination of state and private funding, with $38 million coming from the state of Georgia, $15 million from private donors and $5 million from the Georgia Research Alliance. The Biotechnology Campus at GA Tech was designed to foster interaction among peers from various departments. Rather than the traditional design of devoting sections of a building to each discipline, researchers from chemical, electrical, mechanical and biomedical engineers share office and lab space with their colleagues from areas such as biology and chemistry.This interdisciplinary campus arrangement has already lead to developments in fields like molecular imaging, which requires experts with knowledge of molecular biology,quantum mechanics and electrical and computer engineering.