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CT DAS DCS On-Call Construction Administration

The Connecticut Department of Administrative Services selected DTC to provide On-Call Construction Administration services for multiple projects throughout the state.

DTC provided construction inspection services to the State of Connecticut in conjunction with the Utility Improvements at Somers Correctional Complex. DTC provided an on-site full time Construction Inspector (CI) during the construction period to observe the […]

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Arkadelphia AFRC

DTC was awarded a $14 million contract for the Design and Construction of a new 52,000 sq. ft. U.S. Armed Forces Reserve Center (AFRC), located at Arkadelphia, Arkansas. DTC provided all engineering, construction management, general contracting, supervision, quality control and safety services. Primary facilities included a single story Armed Forces Reserve Center, Unheated Storage/Maintenance Training […]

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Downtown Crossing/Route 34

The Route 34 in Downtown New Haven was originally constructed in the 1950s as a way to link together the City of New Haven and the Lower Naugatuck Valley. Today, the highway has been reconfigured in an effort to connect New Haven’s medical district at Yale-New Haven Hospital to Union Station, the Hill Neighborhood and […]

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Francis Walsh Intermediate School

The Francis Walsh Intermediate School was built in 1972 and was originally called Branford Intermediate School. It is a 250,000 square foot building and was built in the open school style, characterized by classrooms with no walls, open space, and emphasis on community, sharing, and character. While these characteristics still ring true today, a number of […]

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100 College Street, New Haven Construction

The structure at 100 College Street in Downtown New Haven is part of the city’s Downtown Crossing Project which seeks to reunite two sides of the city which were formerly separated by a limited-access highway. 100 College was built where the highway once was in order to gain proximity to Yale-New Haven Hospital and the […]

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Owner-Driven Project Changes

By: Michael Casey, NICET II, Construction Project Manager — Why can’t they just move it over there? Why can’t they just use a different product. It won’t take long. We just have to move it over a little. I don’t like it quite like that.

Change. It’s just a small change. And it appears so innocuous. Often, […]

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Inspection and Rating of Systemwide Bridges Contract No. 2, Group B

DTC was selected a second time by the MBTA in 2009 to perform in-depth inspections and load ratings on commuter rail bridges located along the MBTA’s East Route, Dorchester, Old Colony, Fitchburg, and Worcester Lines.

DTC services include hands-on, in-depth, and fracture-critical inspections of bridges in accordance with NBIS, AREMA, AASHTO procedures.

Load ratings are performed using […]

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Inspection and Rating of Systemwide Bridges Contract No. 1, Group C

DTC provided in-depth, special member, and fracture critical inspection and load ratings of over 80 commuter rail bridge structures located along the MBTA’s Plymouth, Middleboro, Capeway, Franklin, Needham, Stoughton, and Shoreline Branches. This multiphase contract spanned over four years.

DTC provided hands-on critical inspections in accordance with NBIS, AREMA, and AASHTO standards. Structures inspected and load […]

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Improvements to Routes 1 and 122

DTC is under contract with the Connecticut Department of Transportation to prepare construction documents to reconstruct the intersection of US Route 1 and Connecticut Route 122 in West Haven.

This intersection is adjacent to the University of New Haven and also serves many commercial and retail establishments. This intersection is on the SLOSSS (Suggested List of […]

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New Sector Command Building U.S. Coast Guard

Design/Build State-of-the-Art New Sector Command Headquarters. DTC provided civil, structural, mechanical, electrical, plumbing and fire protection engineering, subsequent construction administration task for each discipline throughout construction and construction management/general contracting services for the U.S. Coast Guard’s Facilities Design & Construction Center, Atlantic (FD&CC LANT) on the design-build delivery of a new Sector Command Building in […]

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