KANAWHA CITY, W.Va. — A year-long project begins Monday to repair the three-story headquarters of the state Department of Environmental Protection building in Charleston’s Kanawha City.

The state is paying a contractor $9.7 million to replace the building’s HVAC system, repair the roof, reseal the dozens of windows in the building and fix expansion joints.

The work is expected to take about a year to complete, DEP Spokesman Terry Fletcher told MetroNews.

“These are upgrades that are a bit overdue that we need to get taken care of to maintain safety and comfortableness of our public workers and just for the efficiencies of the building,” Fletcher said.

There are 618 state workers in the building including 448 employees of the DEP. Other state agencies there include PEIA, the state Conso

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