Employee Milestones
At DiPrete Engineering, we are constantly focused on building a culture that promotes growth opportunities for our talented and creative mix of surveyors, engineers, and planners. We do this by balancing employee engagement with our commitment to client service. Sounds like rhetoric? It is easy to say but often more challenging to accomplish. Given this, we take pride in retaining our top talent year-after-year. In 2016, several members of the DiPrete family reached career milestones and we would like to…
Newport County: From Landfill to Beach Lifestyle Resort
Plans for the new Endless Summer Resort located on Park Avenue in Portsmouth, RI have been revealed! The site, a former landfill that was never properly closed, is now being closed on behalf of owner Art Palmer through DEM Waste Management so that habitat restoration and redevelopment can begin. The 18-acre resort will include an outdoor sports complex centered around beach volleyball, beach soccer and tennis, as well as a beach entry swimming area with a lazy river. There will…
Bathymetric Land Surveys
Here at DiPrete, our professional land surveyors have a diverse portfolio of surveys – one in particular being Bathymetric surveys. These surveys are some of the most accurate for measuring the depth of lake or ocean floors by using underwater topography. DiPrete works on a multitude of projects that require this information including dock design, pier expansion and repairs, beach erosion mitigation, dam repair, dam design, stream and lake maintenance. The firm uses three techniques for this work. In shallow…
Citizens Bank Breaks Ground for 2018 Opening of New Corporate Campus
Citizens Bank recently held a groundbreaking for its new 3,200-employee corporate campus in Johnston, RI. The site/civil project team lead by DiPrete Engineering includes Pare Corporation (offsite utilities and geotechnical) and Beta Group (traffic and highway) in collaboration with Elkus Manfredi Architects, CRJA-IBI Group, and supported by GZA GeoEnvironmental, BR + A, and McNamara Salvia. Cushman and Wakefield is representing Citizens as the owner’s project manager, Premier Development is responsible for site work, and Dimeo Construction Company is completing the…
Save A Lab this Holiday Season!
It’s that time of year – the time to give, to be generous, and to help those in need. This year, consider helping out a furry friend in your community! Every day, 14,000 dogs are put down in USA shelters – many of which are beautiful, pure bred dogs. Their lives are lost due to over-population and neglect. Save A Lab Rescue, an all-volunteer, not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization, is dedicated to the rescue, rehabilitation and re-homing of displaced Labrador Retrievers and Labrador…