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Bluesphere breaks ground on 3.2 MW biogas plant in Rhode Island

By Katie Fletcher | June 03, 2015   In May, rebar installation was completed on one of the digesters for the Charlotte biogas project, as well as the base and first rings casted. The first half of the digester foundation was also poured. On May 28, Bluesphere Corp. held a groundbreaking ceremony for its 3.2-MW waste-to-energy (WTE) project in Johnston, Rhode Island. Once operational, the facility will sell the electricity it generates from food waste…
Sheryl Guglielmo
June 3, 2015
Engineering News

New Look for DiPrete’s Website!

Have you seen DiPrete’s new website yet? Full Circle Design in Melrose, Mass., New Harbor Group in Providence, and Sheryl Gugliemo, Senior Project Engineer at DiPrete, recently teamed up to advance the firm’s website. With the help of Full Circle’s Senior Web Engineer, Lexy Kilpatrick, the website was transformed over the duration of eight months. New, individual photos of team members were added, as were project photos, and sections were reorganized. “The site’s new homepage has…
Sheryl Guglielmo
May 19, 2015
Engineering News

Celebrating Women in the Engineering Field!

The effort all started with the National Association of Women in Construction (NAWC), a group founded in Fort Worth, Texas, way back in the 1950s. Only 16 women were involved in the construction industry in 1953. 8.9 percent of those working in the U.S. construction industry were women, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Last month, the company celebrated its very own “Women in Construction,” recognizing all of their female employees’ hard work and…
Sheryl Guglielmo
May 19, 2015
Engineering News

Bringing a Field Perspective

DiPrete Engineering welcomed Civil Engineer Brian Lavey of Cranston to its ranks on March 2. Formerly a construction supervisor with Cataldo Associates Inc. in Johnston, Lavey will be working with the growing group headed by Senior Project Engineer, Brandon Carr. Lavey’s new role at DiPrete will expand his skillset as he will spend more time in the office, as opposed to out at work sites where he spent most of his time at his former…
Sheryl Guglielmo
May 19, 2015

"A former 13 million-gallon oil tank farm on the bank of Chelsea Creek is currently under reconstruction to be transformed into a two-story, 5,349sf office space serving as the Rock Chapel Marine headquarters." Click here to read this article in the High Profile