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DiPrete Engineering Raises More Than $19,000 to Support the MS Society

DiPrete Engineering's Bike MS Team: The PT Riders DiPrete Engineering employees and friends recently participated in Bike MS: Ride the Rhode. DiPrete’s team, the PT Riders, rode a total of 150 miles to support finding a cure for Multiple Sclerosis (MS). The two-day ride started and finished at the University of Rhode Island in Kingston. The PT Riders were among the top six fundraising teams in the state raising more than $19,000. In addition to…
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June 28, 2019
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Q&A with Steve Resendes, Survey Field Supervisor

Steve Resendes,Survey Field Supervisor Q: What were you doing prior to joining DiPrete Engineering? A: I was working at Almac’s Supermarket stocking shelves. I had just graduated from the New England Institute of Technology when I started working here. It was supposed to be a temporary job, but 25 years later and I’m still here. A: What does your role as Survey Field Supervisor entail? Q: I do boundary research to provide a Class IV to…
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June 28, 2019
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DiPrete Receives Environmental Business Council of New England Award

Terrance Gray Assistant Director at RI DEM and Dennis DiPrete, President of DiPrete Engineering DiPrete Engineering is honored to be a recipient of this year’s Environmental Business Council of New England (EBC NE) James D.P. Farrell Award for Brownfields-Remediation Project of the Year. The award ceremony was held at the Marriott Hotel in Newton, MA where DiPrete was recognized for their role in the Citizens Bank Corporate Campus project alongside DiGregorio Corporation, GZA GeoEnvironmental, Inc.,…
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June 28, 2019
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DiPrete Celebrates Take Your Dog to Work Day

Last week, DiPrete Engineering participated in Take Your Dog to Work Day® (TYDTWDay), a Pet Sitters International (PSI) annual event to celebrate dogs and promote pet adoptions. This year marked the 21st annual TYDTWDay event. TYDTWDay was first celebrated in 1999 to honor the great companions dogs make and promote their adoptions. An estimated 300 businesses participated in the inaugural celebration of TYDTWDay. Since that time, America’s love for pets and interest in TYDTWDay has grown to an…
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June 28, 2019
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Striving for 6S at DiPrete Engineering

The DiPrete Engineering 6S Team: Joe Duhamel, Karen King,Matt Sullivan, Jennifer Colson, and Lisa Baccari “For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned.” -Benjamin Franklin At DiPrete Engineering, we embrace an employee-empowered culture, utilizing Lean methodologies to improve communication, quality, efficiency, and minimize costs. The Lean 6S process is used to organize and minimize items within a workplace in order to make it operate more efficiently. The 6S mantra is “Sort, Set in…
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June 28, 2019