Landmark Engineering

Landmark Engineering, based in Bowling Green, is a distinguished civil engineering company with over 20 years of experience. Our mission is to help clients achieve their project goals through timely and professional services, while maintaining high-quality standards. We specialize in civil engineering, landscape architecture, land surveying, land planning, materials testing and inspection, and transportation engineering. At Landmark Engineering, excellence and value are at the core of our services, ensuring critical project components are designed correctly and efficiently. Discover how we can assist with your next project by visiting our website or contacting us today for more information. Let us turn your vision into reality.

The firm’s history is largely a history of absorbing other people’s practices. Thaddaeus J. Lucas, PE, PLS founded Landmark Engineering on 1 October 2004 by buying Petty & Associates, Inc., which had been working the Bowling Green area since 1985. Van Meter Engineering, Inc., then twenty-four years old, was acquired in December 2006. James R Adams & Associates followed in January 2021. The practical effect for a developer is that the survey records and local knowledge from several older south-central Kentucky firms now sit in one office.

Lucas holds engineering licenses in three states and surveying licenses in two: PE in Kentucky (#26913), Tennessee (#111748) and Arkansas (#11414), and PLS in Kentucky (#3569) and Tennessee (#2498). That is why qualifying work is taken across the Tennessee line and not only around Warren County. He holds two degrees from Western Kentucky University, in civil engineering technology (1995) and civil engineering (2006).

Where the combined disciplines pay off is sequence. Surveying leads into planning and design, then permitting and construction documents, then materials testing, field observation and final inspection, all under one contract rather than handed between consultants at each stage. Materials testing covers soil and aggregate, compaction documentation, concrete observation and asphalt inspection. The civil scope includes grading and drainage plans, storm water management design, erosion and sediment control planning, and water and sanitary sewer coordination with utility layout.

Project types split between residential, including subdivisions, townhome communities and multi-family, and commercial retail, office, industrial, institutional and mixed-use.

One procedural note for anyone budgeting: the firm prepares a proposal only after reviewing the anticipated scope of a project, so an early conversation about scope comes before a number.