A $96 million cancer treatment center using novel proton technology to reduce damage to healthy tissue could begin construction on the city’s west side as soon as summer. A proton therapy center in Wallingford under a partnership between Hartford HealthCare and Yale New Haven Health broke ground in the summer with an opening planned for the end of 2026. That would make the Wallingford facility the only proton therapy center between New York and Boston. The Danbury proton center would open in 2027 to serve Fairfield County and nearby New York, according to the current plan. Among the conditions Danbury Proton agreed to with the state agency in January are that the center will “become credentialed as a Medicaid provider” and it will “commit at least 5% of net revenue to providing care for the uninsured and/or covering patients’ out-of-pockets.” Danbury Proton expects to create 100 jobs during construction and employ “32 full-time equivalent employees, including radiation oncologists, medical physicists, radiation therapists, medical support and administrative staff.”

https://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/article/ct-danbury-proton-cancer-center-20246111.php

City Manager Brian Daniels proposed a $36 million capital improvement plan for fiscal year 2026 that falls nearly $1 million under the city’s spending cap and is $20 million less than the current year. The 2026 expenditure represents a $36 million commitment for capital improvement spending and calls for $4.5 million in net city costs when grants are factored. The cap is 2.5% of the prior year’s general fund revenue or $5,071,555. More than 70% of the costs cover seven projects over several years, Daniels said. The capital improvement budget contains the funds allocated for all capital projects in a given year. Of the $36 million, $5.8 million will go toward continuing the West Main Street bridge replacements, $5.4 million for almost a mile of a critical sewer main replacement, $4.4 million of annual road resurfacing, $3 million to replace a Carpenter Avenue water storage tank cover, $2.9 million for required lead service line inventory, $2.4 million to replace a ladder truck within 3 to 4 years and $2 million to finish the Edison Middle School roof.

https://www.ctinsider.com/recordjournal/article/capital-improvements-meriden-2025-20226047.php

The former Briarwood College property may soon be transformed into a new senior development if the zone change is approved by the Planning and Zoning Commission. The project will have 150 age-restricted housing units spread out among seven buildings on site at 2279 Mount Vernon Road. The mix of studio and one-bedroom apartments will range between 350 and 1,000 square feet, Severino Bovino, an engineer and vice president of Southington-based Kratzert, Jones & Associates Inc. said at the recent meeting. Once the zone change is approved PGX will return before the PZC for a site plan review/approval. And go before the Southington Zoning Board of Appeals as well to get a variance that will allow for part of the facility to be used as rented space.

https://www.ctinsider.com/recordjournal/article/ct-briarwood-lincoln-college-senior-housing-20228540.php

In a world of modern miracles, the multi-million-dollar, multi-year construction of Torrington’s new high school/middle school almost literally under the feet of its faculty, students, coaches and athletes is a local version demanding attention in its clockwork operation. Budding engineers, architects, construction workers…and athletic directors couldn’t get a more hands-on education in four years of college. “It’s controlled chaos,” he chuckles from a storage-room office that will become a cafeteria storage room when “the envy of every other school in the area” is complete, somewhere around next October. Last season, the boys and girls basketball teams were on the road for the final 14 games of their regular seasons while O&G, the prime contractor, began work on the school’s new gym.

https://www.stamfordadvocate.com/sports/article/torrington-high-school-spring-games-practices-20228773.php

After years of planning, Greenwich will finally start a major project to upgrade Glenville Road this week. This project, known as the “Glenville Corridor,” will make changes to the roads and sidewalks between the intersection of Glenville Street and Glen Ridge Road and the intersection of Glenville Road and Weaver Street. Work is scheduled to begin on Monday and it is expected to take a full year to complete, according to the Department of Public Works. Crews will be widening parts of the road, upgrading traffic signals, filling slopes in some areas, adding sidewalks, adding stamped concrete pedestrian crossings, adding a traffic signal at the intersection of Glenville Road and Pemberwick Road and more.

https://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/article/greenwich-glenville-corridor-road-work-20241977.php

Aquarion Water Co. will be initiating a water main replacement project that will cover just short of 8,000 feet of pipe. The affected roadways will be Katherine Lane, Windham Drive, Valley View Road, Bob White Way, High Hill Circle, Richard Road, Branch Brook Road and Cornfield Road. Aquarion officials said the work is part of an ongoing program to improve the company’s water distribution system, with Aquarion representatives planning to work closely with residents and businesses to minimize any disruptions. Compass Enterprises Inc. of Simsbury will serve as the contractor for the project, Aquarion officials said.

https://www.stamfordadvocate.com/farmingtonvalley/article/aquarion-water-company-simsbury-traffic-delays-20240492.php

Flanders Road commuters might have to visit the car wash more often, as a portion of the road will soon be fully reconstructed as part of the $156 million Interstate 95 Exit 74 interchange project. Starting in mid-April the road will be gravel for 500 feet from the intersection with Frontage Road to the entrance of Walgreens, said Andrew Millovitsch, project engineer with the state Department of Transportation. Officials expect the work to finish May 1. The project cost has risen from the original estimate of $150 million, after officials needed more supplies than expected, Millovitsch said. He added it’s “amazing” that after two years the large project has only increased in cost by $6 million.

https://theday.com/news/722753/portion-of-flanders-road-to-be-rebuilt-as-part-of-i-95-reconstruction/

Contractors are bracing for a new wave of tariffs set to take effect April 2, this time on certain material imported from Canada and Mexico — such as steel, aluminum and lumber. Though reports indicate the Trump administration could roll back the ultimate scope of this action, contractors say just the threat of tariffs can have an immediate impact on material costs. That’s why that looming deadline on Canadian and Mexican imports has already sparked concern across the construction industry, particularly around reinforcing and structural steel, curtainwall systems and Canadian lumber, said Steve Stouthamer, executive vice president of project planning for Skanska USA Building. Steel prices have increased 15% to 25% since the beginning of January and aluminum is also up 8% to 10% from the beginning of January. The Trump administration has indicated Canadian lumber will be included in the reciprocal tariffs which are set to take effect on April 2. Lumber has already seen a significant increase, 10% to 15% in cost, in anticipation of this tariff.

https://www.constructiondive.com/news/construction-materials-tariffs-skanska-steel/743458/

The CTDOT is hosting the inaugural 2025 Transportation Showcase on April 1 at the Connecticut Science Center in Hartford. The two-hour event is free to the public and starts at 8 a.m. The discussions will be about everything involving transportation in the state and will include a panel including Marian Andoh-Clarke, the Hartford Chamber of Commerce’s director of small business development, CTDOT commissioner Garrett Eucalitto, Capital Region Council of Governments executive director Matt Hart and the Connecticut Institute for Resilience & Climate director of resilience planning John Truscinski. Arthur Guzzetti, the American Public Transportation Association’s vice president of mobility and public policy, will be the keynote speaker. Registration and breakfast are from 8 a.m. to 8:40 a.m. The keynote speaker and panel will follow. The panel will be moderated by WNPR’s ‘Where We Live’ host Catherine Shen and the showcase will appear on a future episode.

CTDOT to discuss future of transit and transportation in CT. ‘So much is changing,’ officials say

Utility companies last March began to dig up Church Street for various utility projects including sanitary sewer, storm water, gas and underground electric and communication. Work will continue into October. Hess said the infrastructure work resolves storm water and sanitary sewer issues that have plagued the west side of the borough for years and has created havoc in the downtown area when there is a heavy rainfall in a short period of time. Public Works Director Jim Stewart said workers are now putting in the concrete underneath the new proposed brick sidewalks which will include granite curbing. Once they finish the lower end of Church Street, they will move work to in front of the Town Green and then the Maple Street Bridge that will have a new surface similar to the existing bricked crosswalks. The borough board initially approved in 2022 to select Kleinfelder Northeast, a national engineering firm, for the final design of storm water and sanitary sewer upgrades and streetscape designs for Church and Maple streets.

https://www.ctinsider.com/waterbury/article/naugatuck-businesses-church-street-construction-20240635.php