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…

Osborn Consulting Wins PSBJ Best Workplace Award

Last Thursday (August 11th), 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. Out of those 20 companies, OCI rose to the top, taking home the gold Best …

Osborn Makes the List: Eastside Fastest-Growing Private Companies

For the first time OCI has made the Puget Sound Business Journal’s List of Eastside Fastest-Growing Private Companies! Companies on the list are globally headquartered in the Eastside, including Bellevue, Bothell, Issaquah, Kirkland, Newcastle, Redmond, Renton, Sammamish, or Woodinville, and mu…

Sewer Rehabilitation Spotlight

Two of OCI’s Sewer Rehabilitation Projects recently received competitive construction bids that came in under the engineer’s estimates. OCI provided engineering design for a combination of spot repairs and relining sites for the City of Bellevue’s Sanitary Sewer Repair Project. The relining metho…

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…

Top Women-Owned Business 2016

For the second year in a row, Osborn Consulting has been recognized on the Puget Sound Business Journal’s list of Women-Owned Businesses, ranked by revenue. Though we’ve moved down the list from last year (rank 47 in 2015 and rank 49 in 2016), our revenue is up, increasing from $2.55 million to $2…

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…

WTS Small Business Employer of the Year

On Tuesday, March 22nd, OCI attended the Women’s Transportation Seminar (WTS) Annual Scholarship and Award Gala. OCI’s Senior Project Manager Laurie Thomsen is serving as the Puget Sound WTS Chapter’s Scholarship Co-Chair and had the honor of co-presenting the scholarship recipients with the chapte…

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…

Fritz Hedges Waterway Park

OCI worked with Walker Macy to design a new City of Seattle park on Portage Bay that will open in 2018. OCI engineers provided civil engineering for the design that includes a kayak storage area, restrooms, terraced seating areas, piers, and beach access. OCI was excited to have the opportunity to w…

ACEC Awards 2016

The American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC) recently hosted the prestigious 2016 Engineering Excellence Awards Gala. Innovative projects from design firms across Washington competed in the “Best in State Projects” category. Our nomination, Seattle Public Utilities’ Venema Natural Drai…

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…

Puyallup River Bridge Replacement Timelapse

Last weekend, the 379-ton, steel truss bridge, originally built in 1925 and most recently used as temporary detour bridge across Puyallup River, was moved away from the river and onto WSDOT right-of-way. OCI worked on the drainage design for the temporary detour and the permanent bridge, designed a …

Osborn Consulting named Washington’s Best Workplace

Last night at Safeco Field, Osborn Consulting was named Washington’s Best Workplace by the Puget Sound Business Journal (PSBJ). As the gold medal winner for companies with 10-49 employees, the PSBJ confirmed what Osborn employees already knew.

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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…

Introducing Our Newest Engineers

Two new engineers have been added to the OCI team in order to support new projects and markets. These new hires contribute exceptional talent and expertise and have quickly became integral members of OCI.

One of our new Project Engineers is Joshua Van Wie, E.I.T. Josh received his Master’s in Civ…