The Green Energy Times recently published an article highlighting the environmentally-conscious design and construction of the Upper Valley Community Transportation Center, for which OCE Vice President Brent F. Rakowski, P.E. was the engineer of record. The article explains one of the most interesting innovations of the bus station that Brent designed: "Another innovative aspect of [...]

OCE helped Rutland Town create a conceptual site plan which was used to help procure a Municipal Planning Grant from the Vermont Department of Housing and Community Development for a pocket park in Rutland Town. The two-acre site is nestled between the Center Rutland Falls and Route 4 and will feature a walking path along [...]

While modern landfills are constructed with liners so that harmful substances won't leach into the surrounding environment, the town of Salisbury was home to the last unlined landfill in the state. Salisbury’s Landfill on Upper Plains Road was a regular local destination where townspeople would often run into each other, but residents understood the dangers [...]

Jason Larocque and Brent F. Rakowski, P.E. of Otter Creek Engineering had the opportunity to work alongside Middlebury College students and John McLeod of McLeod Kredell Architects to provide site design and permitting for the construction of two Habitat for Humanity homes on Seymour Street in Middlebury. OCE supports Habitat for Humanity of Addison County [...]

Since opening in 1993, The Memorial Sports Center has provided area residents with an exciting indoor recreational space. In fact, many OCE staff and their families have spent a great deal of quality time at the Sports Center themselves. When the Friends of Middlebury Hockey sought to expand—adding a heated second-floor viewing area, elevator, multi-purpose [...]