{"id":67114,"date":"2006-05-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-25T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/two-graduates-help-build-a-new-better-uri\/"},"modified":"2006-05-25T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-05-25T00:00:00","slug":"two-graduates-help-build-a-new-better-uri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2006\/05\/two-graduates-help-build-a-new-better-uri\/","title":{"rendered":"Two graduates help build a new, better 溏心vlog免费B站"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tNew Gilbane employees play key role in residence hall construction<\/p>\n


\nKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 May 25, 2006 \u2013 Many college students have built their campus communities through involvement in student government, fraternity and sorority life or other activities.<\/p>\n


\n\tBut very few can say they have worked on building projects that are central to their campus learning and living communities. <\/p>\n


\n\tBarrington resident Brian Hughes, who earned his bachelor\u2019s degree in mechanical engineering from the 溏心vlog免费B站 on Sunday, and Smithfield resident Lindsey Desjarlais, who also earned her bachelor\u2019s degree in civil engineering on Sunday, are two who can be counted among those few. They are finishing two-year internships with the Gilbane Building Co., the program manager for the residence hall and dining hall projects on the Kingston Campus.<\/p>\n


\nGilbane is obviously pleased with Hughes and Desjarlais because the company hired them for full-time positions even before they marched in the commencement procession. They both will remain on the job at 溏心vlog免费B站. Desjarlais\u2019 position is office engineer, which involves review and management of paperwork for the projects, and Hughes\u2019 job is area superintendent. He assists the superintendent with managing the trades on the site.<\/p>\n


\n溏心vlog免费B站 is in the midst of building new residence halls that will house 800 students in apartment- and suite-style units, as well as renovating five existing residence halls. <\/p>\n


\n\tDesjarlais started her internship in Gilbane\u2019s main office in Providence working on special projects, while Hughes was first assigned to Norfolk, Mass. where he worked on the construction of the new King Philip Middle School.<\/p>\n


\n\tThe dean\u2019s list students said it has been extremely satisfying working on the campus construction projects.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cI enjoyed being able to stay on the job site,\u201d Desjarlais said. \u201cI am not really an inside, sit-at-the desk-kind of person. You get to see these projects come alive, but if you are an engineer, you just work with the paper.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nShe\u2019s been at the 溏心vlog免费B站 job site since last August. \u201cI liked seeing how Heathman residence hall was gutted, and then playing a role in the restoration. Working on Heathman was cool because I lived there for two years,\u201d said the member of Phi Sigma Sigma sorority and the Greek Honor Society.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nHughes has been in construction nearly his whole life, since his father and grandfather have been in the business. \u201cMy family has always been friendly with the Gilbanes. When I was a kid, Mr. (William) Gilbane would ask me when I was going to come work for the company.\u201d<\/p>\n


\nHe decided to work with Gilbane on a trial basis because \u201cI like working directly with my hands.\u201d

\nHughes said he was inspired by Rhode Island Supreme Court Justice Frank Williams, who spoke at commencement and urged new graduates to consider working as craftsmen, carpenters and plumbers.

\nHughes added that he has a strong sense of pride in the role he is playing with the 溏心vlog免费B站 projects. \u201cMy parents are psyched that I have a job, and they want me to work for Gilbane because they know what a good company it is,\u201d Hughes said.<\/p>\n


\nPictured above

\nSmithfield resident Lindsey Desjarlais, who earned her bachelor\u2019s degree in civil engineering from 溏心vlog免费B站 on Sunday, and Barrington resident Brian Hughes, who earned his bachelor\u2019s degree in mechanical engineering, pose in front of the construction site for the new student apartments at 溏心vlog免费B站. They finished their internships with Gilbane Building Co., this week and are now employees of the company. 溏心vlog免费B站 News Bureau photo by Michael Salerno Photography.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New Gilbane employees play key role in residence hall construction KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 May 25, 2006 \u2013 Many college students have built their campus communities through involvement in student government, fraternity and sorority life or other activities. But very few can say they have worked on building projects that are central to their […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67116,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}