Lucas & Scott Engineering

What Lucas & Scott Engineering does

Lucas & Scott Engineering, Inc. is a privately held structural engineering consulting firm founded in 2004 and headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida. The firm delivers structural design, analysis, inspection, and damage assessment services for residential and commercial properties, alongside specialized structures including boathouses, bulkheads, retaining walls, marine structures, signs, slabs, footings, and metal buildings. Its service portfolio comprises residential engineering, commercial engineering, foundation structural damage assessments, insurance restoration services, and engineering for other structures, all performed by licensed professional engineers with more than 20 years of operating experience.

The firm serves a diverse client base spanning homebuilders, homeowners, banks and mortgage companies, attorneys, insurance adjusters, restoration contractors, home warranty companies, government agencies, real estate professionals, and institutional clients such as schools, churches, and historic buildings. Engagements are delivered through on-site evaluations and document review, with an explicit stated philosophy of avoiding over-designed solutions in favor of cost-effective engineering that meets both physical and fiscal requirements. The value proposition emphasizes quick response times, accurate analysis, and tailored engineering judgment.

Lucas & Scott operates a sales-led, direct go-to-market model relying on inbound phone calls to (904) 260-2690 and website contact form submissions, with no disclosed intermediaries or partner channels. Revenue is generated on a project-by-project basis with custom per-engagement quotes; no standardized pricing, subscription model, or volume commitments are published. The firm is owner-operated with no external investors, parent company, or institutional ownership, and operates exclusively within the Jacksonville, Florida metropolitan area from a single office. No digital product platform, API, software offering, or AI/ML tooling is disclosed.

Name

Lucas & Scott Engineering

Legal name

Lucas & Scott Engineering, Inc.

Website

https://lucas-scott.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2004

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Lucas & Scott Engineering is a Jacksonville, Florida-based, owner-operated structural engineering firm providing residential, commercial, foundation damage assessment, insurance restoration, and specialty structure design services to builders, lenders, attorneys, insurers, and institutions since 2004.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Structural Engineering Services

NAICS

Engineering Services (54133)

SIC

Services-Engineering Services (8711)

akta.pro primary industry

Civil & Structural Engineering Consulting (BPAHAIAA)

akta.pro secondary industry

Construction Engineering & Constructability Consulting (BPAHAIAN)

Keywords

• Structural engineering services
• Foundation damage assessment
• Insurance restoration engineering
• Residential structural design
• Commercial building inspection

Headquarters

HQ city

Jacksonville

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure, Others

Revenue model

1. Engineering Consulting Services: Professional engineering services for residential and commercial structural design, analysis, inspections, and assessments. Revenue generated through project-based fees for engineering deliverables.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

Lucas & Scott Engineering is a Jacksonville, Florida-based structural engineering consulting firm providing licensed professional engineering services for residential and commercial properties. Core work includes structural design and analysis (foundations, load-bearing walls, support beams, floor slabs, framing, crawlspaces), damage assessments, insurance restoration engineering following fire/wind/hurricane events, and engineering for specialized structures such as boathouses, bulkheads, and retaining walls. Services are delivered as project-based professional engagements rather than software or manufactured products.

Product overview

Lucas & Scott Engineering is a structural engineering consulting firm offering a unified portfolio of engineering services rather than a software product platform. The core offerings include Residential Engineering and Commercial Engineering as the primary service lines, supplemented by specialized Damage Assessments, Insurance Restoration Services, and Other Structures services. All services are delivered by licensed professional engineers with over 20 years of experience, focusing on timely responses and cost-effective solutions without over-designing.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Residential Engineering Structural engineering services for residential properties including foundation design, load-bearing walls, support beams, floor slabs, general framing, and crawlspace evaluations. Serves home builders, property owners, home buyers, insurance claims adjusters, real estate attorneys, and leasing companies in the Jacksonville, FL area.
• Commercial Engineering Structural engineering services for commercial buildings including building plan evaluations, full property assessments, permit support, due-diligence inspections, and lender/owner certifications. Supports shopping centers, office complexes, retail buildings, lodging facilities, apartments, townhomes, condominiums, schools, light industrial complexes, resort facilities, maintenance buildings, multi-family duplexes, churches, and historic buildings.
• Foundation Structural Damage Assessments Structural and foundation damage assessments performed by licensed engineers using sound engineering judgment. Determines whether observed discrepancies fall within acceptable engineering tolerances and identifies early indicators of underlying structural problems across various building types, including historic structures.
• Insurance Restoration Services Engineering services for insurance restoration following disasters such as fire, wind, vandalism, firefighting efforts, tornadoes, or hurricanes. Assesses structural damage, determines cause and cure, and ensures buildings retain pre-disaster value for residential and commercial properties.
• Other Structures Engineering Structural engineering services for specialized non-building structures including boathouses, bulkheads, retaining walls, marine structures, signs, specialized slabs and footings, and metal buildings.

Named customers10 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights2 records

Direct peers

• J.S. Held: Forensic and structural engineering consulting firm providing property damage assessment, expert witness work, and insurance claim support. Overlaps with Lucas & Scott's damage assessments, insurance restoration, and attorney/expert opinion services.
• Haag Engineering: Forensic engineering consultancy focused on storm, wind, hail, and structural damage assessments for insurance and legal clients. Closely aligned with Lucas & Scott's storm-damage and insurance restoration engineering services.
• Thornton Tomasetti: Global structural engineering consultancy providing design, forensics, and resilience services for buildings. Comparable to Lucas & Scott's structural engineering, damage assessment, and restoration offerings at a larger multi-office scale.
• Wiss, Janney, Elstner Associates (WJE): Engineering consultancy specializing in structural evaluation, failure analysis, and repair/restoration design for buildings and infrastructure. Comparable to Lucas & Scott's structural assessment, foundation evaluation, and restoration engineering work.
• Simpson Gumpertz & Heger (SGH): Structural engineering and applied science consultancy delivering design, investigation, and rehabilitation services for buildings. Directly comparable to Lucas & Scott's structural design, damage assessment, and historic-structure expertise.
• Walter P Moore: Structural engineering and diagnostics firm offering design, forensic analysis, and restoration services. Closely aligned with Lucas & Scott's structural design and damage assessment practice, though at larger commercial scale.
• Donan: U.S. forensic engineering firm specializing in property damage assessments, cause-and-origin investigations, and insurance restoration work for residential and commercial structures. Directly comparable to Lucas & Scott's insurance restoration and damage assessment practice.

Broad incumbents

• AECOM: Global infrastructure consulting firm with extensive structural and building engineering services. Comparable as a broad incumbent operating across commercial, residential, and infrastructure projects in Florida markets.
• Tetra Tech: Large engineering and consulting firm with structural, civil, and environmental capabilities serving public and private clients. Comparable at the broad industry level as a multi-discipline incumbent operating in Florida.
• Arup: Global engineering, design, and consulting firm with deep structural engineering practice across buildings and infrastructure. Overlaps with Lucas & Scott's structural design and assessment services as a much larger multi-discipline incumbent.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Valuation estimate

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Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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