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Orsi promoted to vice president at Pare Corp.

Foxboro, MA According to Pare Corp., Allen Orsi, P.E. has been promoted to vice president. Orsi interned at the firm while in college before accepting a full-time position upon graduation in 2000.  Since then, he has developed strong technical and management skills which he uses to support the firm’s dam and geotechnical engineering projects.  His experience includes the evaluation and design of dams and levees, dam removal analysis and design, as well as geotechnical engineering to support public and private projects.  He has been instrumental in growing Pare’s geotechnical division and dam engineering practice, having managed three of the firm’s largest dam remediation projects.  

He has also managed several multi-year dam rehabilitation programs, assisting owners of multiple dams to prioritize their needs.  He has developed standard approaches to streamline Pare’s evaluation and analysis process.

Orsi earned his bachelor’s in Civil Engineering from Lafayette College, and is currently a registered professional engineer in MA, RI, CT and NY.  He is also a member of the Environmental Business Council (EBC) of New England and the Association of State Dam Safety Officials (ASDSO).    

Established in 1970, Pare Corporation provides comprehensive planning, engineering, permitting and construction-phase services throughout the Eastern United States in such fields as site/civil, highways, bridges, waterfront/marine, dams, water/wastewater, geotechnical, structural, traffic, municipal, and environmental engineering. Pare operates from offices in Lincoln, Rhode Island and Foxboro, Massachusetts.

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