Director / Senior Principal

Email Lucas at: lrpardo@pardoengineering.com.au

Lucas has had extensive experience working previously for VicRoads and Chadwick T&T, before heading up his own company in 2008.

Research has always been a high priority for Lucas, He has sat on a number of council and corporation panels as the geotechnical engineer, and been an expert geotechnical witness in over a dozen cases.

Some projects Lucas has worked on include:

• Western Hwy Duplication, Anthony’s Cutting
• Monash Fwy – Westgate Bridge Upgrade works
• Essendon Airport Northern Access
• Geotechnical supervision and inspections of Geelong Bypass S1
• Pavement designs for Rio Tinto’s iron-ore mines in Pilbara WA
• CQA supervision of landfill cell construction including ‘piggy back’ liners, Anglesea
• Geotechnical expert for the excavation, and design of temporary retention systems for the Melbourne Airport T4 terminal and multi story car park services tunnel
• Research with local government councils and Monash University on the effects of coastal erosion in Port Phillip Bay

Lucas’ Engineering Professional Expertise includes:

Geotechnical Engineering and Site Investigations:

• Investigations for large civil engineering projects, including port facilities, airports, container terminals, coastal structures, highway construction, bridges, sport stadiums, water storage reservoirs, dams, buried pipelines, tunnels, landfills, marinas, large residential developments, etc.

Geoenvironmental Engineering and Waste Containment Structures:

• Moisture barrier construction and Landfill physical/geological assessment.
• Seepage and ground water quality monitoring.
• Waste water retention structures and water treatment lagoons.
• Remediation of contaminated land for development and construction on former landfilled sites.

Pavement Design and Construction:

• Unbound granular pavements with asphalt or sprayed seal surfacing, including polymer modified binder asphalt, geotextile seals, ultra-thin asphalt, etc.
• Rigid concrete pavements, Industrial and hard standing areas.
• Supervision of earthworks and roadworks, including surface and subsurface drainage installation, reinforced earth structures and reinforced pavements using geosynthetics.

Pavement Materials Testing and Quality Control:

• Testing of pavement materials: asphalt, aggregates, soils and concrete, quarry quality control.
• Construction quality control eg. compaction, density, permeability, strength.

Road Asset and Pavement Management including Data Collection:

• Road roughness and rutting using laser profilometers.
• Pavement deflection using falling weight deflectometer or Benkelman beam.
• Pavement profiling using Ground Penetrating Radar.
• Pavement condition assessment and performance monitoring.
• Pavement deterioration modelling and rehabilitation treatments.
• Maintenance Scheduling and Works Programs.

Stabilisation of Pavement Materials:

• Mix design and construction of stabilised road pavements.
• Fatigue modelling and performance monitoring.