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Westin Hotel
25-story hotel for the Providence Convention Center ($55 million)

LOCATION:
Downtown Providence, RI

DESCRIPTION:
The Providence Westin Hotel was built in parallel with the new Rhode Island Convention Center.  The hotel is connected to the adjacent convention center by a pedestrian bridge.  The hotel consists of two parts:

• A steel framed structure houses the lobby, offices, and an indoor pool.  The pool structure is suspended from the upper floors of the building and lies beneath a steel and glass-domed roof.
  
  
• A 25-story reinforced concrete tower houses the main hotel.  The tower is one of the tallest concrete structures in New England.

Odeh Engineers provided structural design, computer aided drafting, and construction supervision services for the entire project.

The American Concrete Institute awarded Odeh Engineers a Building Award in 1996 for the Providence Westin Hotel project.