Engineering News

Providing Survey Guidance

Real estate lawyers hoping to help clients steer clear of avoidable headaches can turn to free seminars taught by the team at DiPrete Engineering Associates Inc. The topic: “What an Attorney Needs to Know about Land Survey.” The hourlong seminar is usually taught in a law firm’s conference room, as part of a lunch or breakfast meeting. Often a law firm will invite attorneys from outside as well. Cranston-based DiPrete Engineering offers the program as…
Sheryl Guglielmo
September 9, 2014
Engineering News

Deepwater Wind’s Proposal Receives Approval

Deepwater Wind’s proposal to build the first offshore wind farm in the United States inched closer to reality this week when the Providence company’s five-turbine project planned off Block Island received a key permit from the lead federal regulatory agency. The approval on Thursday from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers follows last May’s approval from the Rhode Island Coastal Resources Management Council, the state’s lead permitting agency for the project, and means that the…
Sheryl Guglielmo
September 8, 2014
Engineering News

DiPrete to complete URI expansion

July 10, 2014 - Rhode Island   Meals will become a much more pleasant experience for students at the University of Rhode Island (URI) thanks to an $8 million expansion of Butterfield Dining Hall. DiPrete Engineering handled the site engineering for the three-phased project. The upgrade added 7,500 s/f to the existing building, a paved plaza for greater pedestrian access between the dining hall and residence hall, and an expansion of the loading dock. Read…
Sheryl Guglielmo
July 10, 2014
Engineering News

DiPrete Engineering completes building at new NEIT campus

June 12, 2014 - Rhode Island   The New England Institute of Technology - East Greenwich, RI The New England Institute of Technology (NEIT) has expanded its locations with a 220-acre campus that features a remodeled 265,000 s/f building as its centerpiece. The new location is a multi-phased project that may eventually include student housing, dining services, and sports facilities. "The East Greenwich site is intended to feel more like a traditional college campus," said…
Sheryl Guglielmo
June 12, 2014