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Institutions Committee reviews capital requests for state office roofs, UPS upgrades and parking garage
Summary
At an Institutions Committee meeting Feb. 4, Joe Aja, director for design and construction at Building General Services (BGS), outlined capital needs across multiple state facilities, including roof replacements at the Middlesex State Archives and the Waterbury State Office Complex, upgrades to uninterruptible power supplies for the state's print and postal operations, and additional funding for the 32 Cherry Street parking garage.
At an Institutions Committee meeting Feb. 4, Joe Aja, director for design and construction at Building General Services (BGS), outlined capital needs across multiple state facilities, including roof replacements at the Middlesex State Archives and the Waterbury State Office Complex, upgrades to uninterruptible power supplies for the state's print and postal operations, and additional funding for the 32 Cherry Street parking garage.
The requests matter because the Middlesex building stores long-term state records, failing roofs threaten those records and equipment, brittle slate on Waterbury roofs has become a public-safety hazard, and the courthouse above 32 Cherry Street must remain in operation while construction proceeds.
Aja said the Middlesex State Archives complex was built in three phases (1989, 1990 and 2008) and that the records storage area has an interior height of roughly 45 feet. "So we're looking for a million…
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