Giving Back: Solid Ground-Marra Farms

On Saturday, June 23rd OCI employees participated in Seattle Works Day with Solid Ground, a local Seattle based non-profit organization working to end poverty and undo racism in our community. OCI employees worked at the organizations Marra Farms learning about how food is grown, food security and f…

Inglewood Hill Road Improvements Project Wins ASCE LOCEA Award

On Wednesday, June 13, ASCE Seattle presented Osborn Consulting, Inc. (OCI) and the City of Sammamish with a Local Outstanding Civil Engineering Achievement award. The award was for the recently constructed NE Inglewood Hill Road Stormwater Retrofit and Non-Motorized Improvements Project, located on…

Q&A with Osborn Women Engineers

In honor of International Women’s Day, March 8, we collected stories, inspiration, and words of wisdom from Osborn Consulting female engineers who are paving the way in our historically male-dominated industry. Osborn Consulting has developed a truly unique team of highly qualified and col…

Giving Back: Marymoor Park Tree Planting

On Saturday, October 28, OCI team members and their families volunteered with the King County Parks and Recreation Department at Marymoor Park. The volunteer event was a part of King County’s initiative to plant one million trees by 2020 across King County in both urban and rural areas. Reaching tha…

Osborn Takes to the Green for ASCE Golf

OCI Project Manager Ann Bryant took to the green last Friday (August 18, 2017) to form “The Dream Team” at ASCE Seattle’s annual golf tournament. The Dream Team was the only all-female team to compete in the tournament and had a great time playing together. Thanks to the ASCE Seattle Section for put…

Tarelle Osborn – 40 Under 40 Honoree

The Puget Sound Business Journal, since 1999, has shined the spotlight on local leaders through their 40 Under 40 awards program. Young business leaders from all sectors of the business community are nominated and apply for this prestigious recognition. We are so honored to announce that our preside…

Osborn Consulting Wins PSBJ Best Workplace Award (three years in a row!)

On Thursday, August 4th, OCI team members took to Safeco Field to celebrate 80 companies that made the list of Best Workplaces in Washington State. Out of those 80 companies, 20 were small businesses with 10-49 employees, including Osborn Consulting.

Out of those 20 companies, for the third consecu…

Golden Gardens Project Wins LOCEA Award

On Wednesday, July 5 2017, OCI was presented with an award at the ASCE Seattle Chapter’s Local Outstanding Civil Engineering Achievement (LOCEA) award ceremony. The award was for our project with Seattle Parks and Recreation at Golden Gardens Park, where the OCI team replaced a failing stairway and …

Giving Back: Seattle Works Day 2017

On Saturday, June 17, OCI team members participated in Seattle Works Day, a volunteer event to serve the City of Seattle community. Over 1,000 volunteers participate in this annual day of service, at over 50 nonprofit partner locations throughout the City. OCI’s team faced the challenge of weeding …

Osborn Causes: Seattle Brain Cancer Walk 2017

By Madison Dreiger, OCI Marketing Coordinator
The 10th annual Seattle Brain Cancer Walk took place on Sunday, May 7, at the Seattle Center. I have had the  pleasure to participate in the walk for seven of the 10 years it has been put on. I walk to honor my dad and the many other people affected b…

WSDOT Stormwater Mapping and Gold Stars for Jana!

From mid-March through mid-May of this year, OCI staff were in the field, mapping and verifying stormwater outfalls, discharge points, connections, and drainage features along highways in WSDOT’s Northwest Region. WSDOT’s 2014 NPDES General Stormwater Permit, issued through the Department of Eco…

Osborn Causes: Seattle Children’s Wishes For Warriors Auction 2017

By Travis Franklin, OCI CADD Technician
It’s a rare occasion when my wife and I dress up for an event, but this was for a great cause, so we made an exception. Many people don’t realize that children, even infants in the womb, can suffer from a stroke. The 2017 Wishes for Warriors Auction event …

Osborn Consulting’s New Seattle Office!

We are excited to announce that OCI is opening a second office, located in Seattle! As we unpack our boxes and settle into the new space, we invite you to come by on Thursday, May 11 for a casual “Moving-In Party”. We would love to see you there anytime between 5pm and 8pm at our Seattle office, loc…

Stormwater Engineering at Expanding Your Horizons

On Friday, March 25, OCI was honored to present at AAUW’s Expanding Your Horizons (EYH) event at Bellevue College. EYH offers high school girls the opportunity to explore careers in areas based on science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). This is the second year that OCI engineers have le…

Giving Back – Food Lifeline

On Thursday, March 9th, OCI team members volunteered their evening packing food at Food Lifeline in Seattle. Over the course of a couple hours they packed over 663 lbs. of cereal, which will provide 3,315 bowls of cereal for hungry people of Western Washington.

If you are interested in voluntee…

On Set with Osborn Consulting

OCI’s kitchen was transformed into a recording studio yesterday (March 8, 2017) to film our very first video production! Behind the camera, Marketing Coordinator Madison Dreiger directs our star actresses, daughters of OCI engineers. Enjoy these behind the scene photos and stay tuned for the finishe…

Website Updates – Get to Know the Team!

How well do you know the OCI team members? Wonder what they are up to when they aren’t engineering? Discover OCI’s hidden talents and hobbies with our newly re-designed “Meet the Team” webpage! Click on anyone’s bio to read about their interests outside of work and check out all the new photos of o…

Tarelle Osborn, Entrepreneur of the Year

Tarelle Osborn, President and Founder of OCI, was recently named the 2016 Civil Engineering Entrepreneur of the Year by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) at the 2016 ASCE National Convention in Portland, Oregon!

The award was established by the ASCE Committee on Leadership and Manageme…

Meet Our Vice-Presidents: Laura Ruppert and Robert Parish

Chances are if you have done work with Osborn Consulting you have already had the opportunity to meet and work with either or both Laura and Robert on your projects; but did you know that on top of being exceptional project managers, they are both OCI Vice-Presidents and Board Members? Laura, Robert…

Osborn Designs SDOT Neighborhood Street Fund Projects

This summer, OCI developed conceptual designs for Seattle’s Department of Transportation’s annual Neighborhood Street Fund Program, recently covered by King 5 News.

OCI provided concept-level designs for 20 Neighborhood Street Fund projects. The projects range from sidewalk improvements, new ro…