Category Archives: Civil Engineering

Push Your Limits

Kentucky design firm adds new services and wins more work with BIM and Autodesk Revit software

  By: AutoDesk The Firm Founded in 1853, Luckett & Farley is the largest architectural firm in Kentucky and one of the oldest continuing design practices in the United States. Today, the employee-owned, multidisciplinary firm offers clients in the public and private sectors a broad range of services, including architecture, engineering, interior design, and construction management. [more...]

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Design-Building at the Speed of X-Cubed

Why the Design-Build delivery approach just makes sense.

We have a saying here at Luckett & Farley: ‘we deliver at the speed of x-cubed…with quality driving the deliverable.’ The term “Fast-Paced Project” doesn’t raises eye-brows or serve as an excuse for mediocrity…we call this “normal.” As was alluded in a previous post, Luckett & Farley utilizes technology to deliver infrastructure solutions to our clients. [more...]

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Norton Commons gears up for Y

Construction of the Norton Commons YMCA designed by Luckett & Farley is currently underway. This week the facility’s neighbors came out for a tour of the progress and preview of what will be Louisville’s “most modern” YMCA branch. The grand opening is planned for early 2013. Read the full Courier-Journal article.

Also posted in Architecture, Electrical Engineering, Engineering, Healthcare, Mechanical Engineering, Recreation, Structural Engineering

Green Incentives provide catalyst for Ford’s drainage and pavement upgrade

What do you mean there are no catch basins in the entire parking lot?!

Hitch in the Giddy Up What do you mean there are no catch basins in the entire parking lot?! This predicament at the Ford Louisville Assembly Plant (LAP) was more than troubling to a Luckett & Farley engineer.  It was puzzling. So then how does —?  You mean all the rain just —?  And so [more...]

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Clear Channel Media + Entertainment Office & Studio Renovation

Luckett & Farley provided services for this project located in a historic building that was formerly an AT&T headquarters. It is now the new home of Clear Channel’s New York FM operations, a complex consisting of 29 studios. Five stations occupy 120,000 square feet of the second, third and fourth floors. Three of the stations [more...]

Also posted in Architecture, Broadcast, Electrical Engineering, Engineering, Interior Design, Mechanical Engineering

Aspen Creek

Luckett & Farley provided site, structural, architectural, mechanical, plumbing and electrical design services for Aspen Creek Restaurant in Fayetteville, North Carolina, This restaurant was modeled conceptually in 3D and developed for construction documents utilizing Revit building information modeling software. The facility supports approximately 100 diners and a full service kitchen with multiple hoods, cooking, food [more...]

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Leaders vs. Followers

“Are you a Leader or a Follower?” When you think about that question, you first need something by which to gauge your response. You could read the latest best seller on leadership skills or watch the hottest new self-help video. Personally, I prefer to study past leaders to see how they lived and try to [more...]

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