Manni not daunted by changes, challenges of commercial construction

Sarah Francis

12/05/2025

GAME PLANNING: Lori Manni, center, president of Capital City Construction & Management Services Inc., goes over documents with Al DeRobbio, left, project supervisor, and Oliver Carias, operating engineer of Local 57, at the company’s Cranston office. PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Lori Manni knows her way around a sewer system. She’s spent the better part of two decades building miles of them. It’s not a far cry from the work of her father, Tom Manni, who made his living building residential foundations. “He’d drive me to school,” she said. “His truck smelled like concrete and oil.”

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