Volunteering at Food Lifeline
On Wednesday, June 15th, OCI team members volunteered their evening sorting and packing food at Food Lifeline in Seattle. There they received the grand tour of the beautiful new Food Lifeline facility in South Park, including a quick run through the freezer room, and then began putting together sn…
Osborn Engineers Present at “Expanding Your Horizons”
OCI’s own engineers, Rebekah Weston and Alma Rettinger, led their workshop, “Experience Water Resources Engineering with an Interactive Rain Garden” at last week’s “Expanding Your Horizons” event at Bellevue College. Last fall, Rebekah constructed a fully-functioning scale model of the Venema Natur…
Osborn Basketball Champions!
OCI Team Members joined forces with Perteet Engineering this season to compete in the unofficial “Engineer’s Basketball League.” The team included members who play basketball often in their free time and those who haven’t touched a basketball in years. After an inspirational season of developing t…
2016 Women in Leadership Symposium
Osborn Consulting (OCI) is a sponsor for the annual Women in Leadership Symposium to be held on Wednesday, February 3rd, 2016 from 8:30AM – 6:00PM at the Mercer Island Community and Event Center. This is OCI’s third time participating in the event; OCI President Tarelle Osborn spoke at the 2014 …
Bioretention in the Classroom
OCI Project Manager Rebekah Weston designed and built a scale model segment of the Venema Natural Drainage Basin, one of our recently constructed projects. Rebekah completed the model for educational purposes and has shown it at this year’s APWA conference and will now be taking it into the classr…
Osborn Ospreys
More commonly known as Sea Hawks (Go Hawks!), a family of ospreys have made their home atop a telephone pole outside of OCI’s office. The osprey chicks hatched from their eggs in the Spring and today they were finally ready to spread their wings! Senior Engineer Robert Parish, our avid office bir…
National Public Works Week Recognition
This year marks the 55th annual National Public Works Week, as sponsored by the American Public Works Association. Governor Jay Inslee (of Washington State) has issued a proclamation addressing the vital importance of public works infrastructure, facilities, and services, saying, “I urge all peo…
ASCE YMF First Annual Executive Forum
President of OCI, Tarelle Osborn, will be a distinguished panelist at the May 29th ASCE Younger Member Forum’s Annual Executive Forum discussing “Engineering Firms: Does Size Matter?” Panelists represent senior leadership of small and large engineering firms and public sector clients, making f…
Presenting at the 2015 Green Gardening Winter Workshop
This Wednesday (February 25th), one of our engineers, Rebekah Weston, had an opportunity to speak at the 2015 Seattle Public Utilities Green Gardening Workshop held at South Seattle Community College. Rebekah partnered with Ida Ottesen, landscape architect from Nakano Associates, to present “From …