A Rhode Island company (a firm at Quonset Business park) has been tapped to help construct the foundations for five wind turbines to be built off of Block Island in 2015 — the first offshore wind farm in the United States, the developer has announced. Welders and other trade workers at Specialty Diving Services, based at Quonset Point in North Kingstown, will make some of the foundation components, which include steel jackets, decks and piles,…

Dowling Village, a new mixed-use development in North Smithfield, continues to grow with several new businesses opening up their doors in the past few months. DiPrete Engineering is collaborating with Bucci Development to design, permit and construct this mixed-use development. They are providing surveying, planning, site/civil engineering, land use approvals and construction administration services. The project includes approximately 450,000 square feet of retail space, over 75,000 square feet of office space, and several restaurants. Firestone,…

Briarcliffe Gardens recently opened its Cottage Residence, a 10,000 square foot Cottage Micro-Community comprised of 20 private suites. The campus, located in Johnston, RI, includes a 43-bed Memory Care Assisted Living Residence as well as the Briarcliffe Manor Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation facility which includes a 122-bed capacity. DiPrete Engineering worked with Briarcliffe Gardens and CEO, Akshay Talwar, to obtain all necessary permitting from the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management (RIDEM), Narragansett Bay Commission…

Johnston, RI The Cottage at Briarcliffe Gardens that was designed by Vision 3 Architects is now open. The 10,600 s/f facility serves as a "Memory Care Assisted Living Residence," offering a unique approach to assisted living for persons with Alzheimer's and Dementia. Included in the facility are twenty private resident rooms, two living areas, a dining area, sunroom, and multipurpose room. Construction was by Pariseault Builders of Warwick. "The New Cottage Micro-Community has its roots…

The New England Institute of Technology is taking another step toward realizing its dream of creating a full-scale college campus on the East Greenwich site it purchased about seven years ago. One building is now on the property, consisting of roughly 280,000 square feet of space dedicated to classrooms, technical labs, medical suites for training simulations, and administrative services. On Tuesday, college President Richard I. Gouse announced that New England Tech is about to embark…