A $124 million wastewater rebuild for Lake Champlain, a $76 million dam fix above the Winooski valley, a paused $175 million university arena, and a string of bridges and interchanges — Vermont's public pipeline is modest in dollars and heavy in upkeep.
*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.
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14 major public projects are listed. The listed figures sum to $770,517,321 (page: $771M) — a small-state tally with no billion-dollar megaproject in it, which is itself the Vermont story: the largest record is a paused university arena (≈$175M), and the rest is wastewater, dams, bridges, interchanges and Guard buildings. Bases differ and are labelled on every record — totals, a contract sum at Exit 16, an allocated figure at Lyndon, and design money only at the women's facility. This is a majors list, not a census of every town bridge and paving job in Vermont (VTrans alone runs dozens of sub-$10M bridge projects a year).
How the border and programme cases were handled: Connecticut River bridges are not listed on this page. Vermont shares the river with New Hampshire, and no current, priced, over-$10M Connecticut River crossing project led by VTrans was verified in this cycle — the notable recent crossing, the Brattleboro–Hinsdale replacement, was New Hampshire-led and completed in a prior year, so it appears on neither state's tally here and is named in the exclusions. One current crossing is tallied — once, on New Hampshire's page: the Lebanon–Hartford I-89 bridges (NHDOT-led, $43M, completing November 2026), with Vermont's share disclosed on that record; this page carries the pointer only. The Quechee Gorge Bridge IS listed: it crosses the Ottauquechee River, a tributary, wholly inside Vermont. Burlington's wastewater programme is counted once at the city's $124M total, the Exit 16 interchange once at its two published contracts, and the Pittsford–Brandon US-7 record covers only the funded final segment (a separate $13.1M VTrans bridge on the same corridor, Pittsford Bridge 108, was checked and not separately listed). UVM Medical Center — Vermont's largest health construction spender — is a private nonprofit and is excluded by the owner rule, however large its builds.
Completed earlier in 2026, and listed as completed under the current convention, with their dates printed on their records: the Patrick Leahy Burlington International Airport Project NexT north terminal ($68M — officially complete March 2026, first flights March 31, 2026) and Winooski's Main Street Revitalization (≈$28.3M — substantial completion September 2026). The Quechee Gorge rehabilitation (completion scheduled fall 2026) and the Colchester Exit 17 project (final season 2026) are listed under construction at the October 26, 2026 build date, with their dates printed.
Deliberately excluded: UVM Medical Center and all other private builds (owner rule), including Dartmouth-Hitchcock's Vermont-side activity (New Hampshire, and private). Completed in a prior year, however large: the Middlebury Rail Tunnel (2021), the Lamoille Valley Rail Trail (completed 2023), the Brattleboro–Hinsdale Connecticut River bridge replacement (New Hampshire-led, opened 2024), Burlington's earlier airport phases, and UVM's completed campus buildings. Unfunded proposals, named: BTV's south-terminal phase (about $80M; a bond vote is hoped for in 2028), the Vermonter's extension to Montreal (planning grants only; the East Alburgh Bridge has a $3.95M federal study award, below the floor and a study, not a build), a State House entryway expansion ($18.6M baseline design concept; construction funds not appropriated), and the women's facility's construction itself ($70–97M estimated, unfunded — only its $14.5M of design money is listed). No verified termination was found among Vermont's majors in this cycle. The softest records on the page are the Burlington–Winooski Bridge (a $70–80M conceptual range, tallied at its midpoint) and the suspended UVM arena (a total assembled from the university's spent-plus-needed figures, with its completion funding not yet secured) — both flagged on their records.