A $2.03 billion rebuild of the port almost all of Alaska eats through, the nation's first Arctic deep-draft port at Nome, a $364 million seawall for its northernmost town, a $230 million bridge over a moving landslide in Denali — finished in 2026 — and a ferry, a bypass and two revived rail and road projects headline Alaska's public pipeline.
*How to read the total: the sum of the published figures in the list below. Bases differ by project — most are total cost estimates, some are federal grants, program totals, or construction contracts as awarded. Each project's expanded view labels its own basis. We add them up with the labels showing rather than pretend they're all the same kind of number.
Hover a pin for the project snapshot. Pin numbers match the project list below. Locations are approximate (nearest city or corridor midpoint) on a schematic state outline.
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16 major public projects are listed. The listed figures sum to $6,105,474,252 (≈$6.11B) — dominated by one record, the $2.027B cargo-terminal replacement at the Don Young Port of Alaska, with the next four (Cooper Landing Bypass $840M, Port of Nome $662.6M, Utqiagvik coastal protection $364.3M and the Ambler Road $350M) together worth about another $2.22B. Bases differ and are labelled on every record: an adopted plan-of-finance programme total, published project totals, one vessel bid price, appropriations figures and one grant-priced bridge. This is a majors list, not a census: Alaska DOT&PF's STIP, the Corps' Alaska civil-works programme and village-scale state capital projects carry hundreds of smaller projects below this page's $10M published-figure threshold, and in Alaska that below-threshold tail is unusually important — much of the state's real construction happens village by village.
Two 2026 completions are listed under the current ruling, with their openings printed: the Pretty Rocks Bridge in Denali (completed September 2, 2026, $230M) and the Seward cruise dock and terminal (opened May 2026, $137M). Completed in a prior year, however large: the Port of Alaska's Petroleum and Cement Terminal and Port Administration Building (complete and operational before the current cargo-terminal phase; the PAMP's North Extension Stabilization Step 1 was completed in 2025) — all inside the same programme as ak-001 and not double-counted; the University of Alaska Fairbanks combined heat and power plant (2018 — the campus's last project of this scale; no current UAF or UAA project with a published figure over $10M could be verified, the university's current capital story being a $32.46M system-wide deferred-maintenance appropriation for FY2027 spread across 18 small projects); and the Alaska-class ferries built at Ketchikan in the 2010s.
Deliberately excluded — private builds, however large: Alaska's biggest construction is resource extraction and it is private, so it stays off this page and is named here so its absence is a ruling, not an oversight. ConocoPhillips' Willow oil project in the National Petroleum Reserve (total project capital updated to $8.5–9.0B in November 2025; first oil expected early 2029) is larger than this entire page combined. Also excluded as private or private-led: the Santos Pikka oil development, the Donlin Gold mine, the Ambler Mining District mines themselves (the state-owned access road that would serve them is listed as ak-005, with the distinction printed on its record), and the Alaska LNG gasline as currently structured under its private developer. Terminated or unfunded, named not listed — and never called 'suspended': the Juneau Access road ($574M estimated cost when Governor Walker selected the no-build alternative in December 2016; $27.8M of federal planning money spent; the Federal Highway Administration's no-build record of decision formally closed the project) is terminated. The Knik Arm Crossing between Anchorage and the Mat-Su (estimates contested from under $1B by proponents to $2.5B by opponents; a $2.5M state appropriation was vetoed in 2018) is unfunded planning with no owner, no financing and no schedule.
Tribal projects — listed under the owner's October 26, 2026 scope ruling: Alaska Native tribal health and village infrastructure is a very large share of all construction in Alaska, and its owners — the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium (ANTHC) and the regional tribal health organizations — are tribal consortia and nonprofits. They were documented here, not listed, under the owner rule as first written; under the October 26, 2026 ruling, tribal governments and consortia are in-scope owners where they are the documented project owner or federal grant recipient, so the majors are now listed: (1) Alaska Native Medical Center, Anchorage (ANTHC): the $257M Emergency Services Expansion (ak-014), centrepiece of more than $462M of board-approved ANTHC investment in the hospital — the largest in its history — with a proposed second phase (three floors of inpatient beds, private-room conversions and a helipad) disclosed on the record, not added; the hospital building itself was federally owned by the Indian Health Service while ANTHC operated and invested in it, until IHS transferred the facility to ANTHC on August 24, 2026 — the project funder and owner of the work throughout has been the tribal consortium. (2) ANTHC short-term skilled nursing facility, Anchorage (ak-015): $69M, 80 beds, 92,000 sq ft on the Alaska Native Health Campus — construction expected to complete in January 2027 with opening scheduled for March 2027, listed as under construction (ANTHC’s later construction update superseded its earlier summer-2026 estimate). (3) YK Elders Home expansion, Bethel (Yukon-Kuskokwim Health Corporation; ak-016): $66M, doubling the tribal elders' home from 18 to 36 beds with about 30,000 sq ft added, serving 58 rural southwest Alaska communities; selected in April 2026 under the Indian Health Service's first Long-Term Care Joint Venture Construction Program, under which the tribal organization finances and builds and IHS seeks staffing funding. Still named here rather than listed: the Southeast Alaska Regional Health Consortium's planned new 28-bed skilled nursing and long-term care facility beside Mt. Edgecumbe Medical Center in Sitka (no project cost published in the sources verified) and YKHC's Dr. Paul John Calricaraq Project in Bethel ($300M new clinic and hospital renovation, completed in 2021 — a prior-year completion in any case). Village water and sewer: first-time piped water and sewer for village Alaska is delivered jointly by the State's Village Safe Water programme, USDA's Rural Alaska Village Grant programme and ANTHC's Division of Environmental Health and Engineering, village by village; the project owners of record are typically the village, city or tribal utility, individual projects are usually below this page's threshold, and the programme's scale is better told on the What's Still Missing page (3,300+ rural homes still lack running water and a flush toilet). The rule applied the other way: federal-owner projects that serve Native communities ARE listed as federal — the Utqiagvik coastal erosion project (ak-004, USACE-owned, borough-sponsored) and the Port of Nome (ak-003, USACE-owned, city-sponsored) are on this page because the owner is federal.