A $319.6 million dam-safety rebuild on the New River, the last contracts of a Corridor H dreamed about since the 1960s, two coalfield highways finally moving dirt in McDowell and Mercer counties, and a $45 million cybersecurity institute rising in Huntington headline a smaller, harder-won public pipeline — this is a majors list, and it says so.
*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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12 major public projects — a MAJORS list, stated plainly following the Virginia precedent: West Virginia's published, funded majors above the $10M floor are these twelve, and the listed figures sum to ≈$1.2B. Dozens of funded Roads to Prosperity and State Resurfacing projects in the $10M–$60M range (bridge bundles, slide repairs, district paving) are real but are not itemised here; the tally is the sum of the listed figures only, never a programme total dressed up as one.
Flagged sources: five rows rest on news or trade reporting of official figures, flagged 'news-flagged' in the data — Corridor H's Wardensville contract (World Construction Network, reporting the WVDOH award), the Welch Coalfields section and both King Coal sections (CoalZoom / Trans-America Corridor, reporting WVDOT and the Governor's office), and Yeager Airport's CRW Next range (West Virginia Executive, reporting the airport). Each record names the underlying official source. Two Corridor H figures sit side by side deliberately: the $85.4M first Wardensville contract, and the $542M full-section estimate carried in the April 2026 lawsuit against that section — the dispute is disclosed on the record, not edited out.
Deliberately excluded: private projects of any size (the Mountain Valley Pipeline, private gas plants and data centres) and the private Boy Scouts Summit Bechtel Reserve — out of scope by rule; completed majors (the $221M I-70 bridges project in Wheeling, the Beckley Turnpike widening completed 2021, the I-64 Nitro–US 35 widening completing in 2025, King Coal's Airport Road–John Nash section opened December 2023, Cacapon Resort's lodge opened 2021, WVU's Reynolds Hall opened 2022); and unfunded or planning-stage work (Corridor H Parsons–Davis, still in environmental review; King Coal Littlesburg–Montcalm, ~$107M in planning with no funding; WVU's ~$75M Health Sciences Education Building, with $30M secured and the balance still being raised; FBI CJIS Clarksburg, where no current construction project over $10M with a published cost could be verified). No project is listed as suspended: the Morrisey administration's 2025 pause applied to NEW highway starts, and WVDOT confirmed the contracted King Coal and Coalfields work continues — nothing verified as a funded project standing still was found.
Softest record: WVU's ~$150M West Tower — Board-approved and in planning with construction managers selected, but fundraising was still under way at the May 2026 update and no construction contract has been published; its dates should be re-verified on the next pass. The Fairmont Medical Center building is next-softest: board-approved in April 2026 and expressly subject to regulatory approval.