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SCI Team Member
Robert C. Lunardini, P.E.
Senior Engineer
General Background:
Mr. Lunardini is former President, founder and a principal
of Southern Consultants, Inc. His qualifications include over
fifty (50) years of engineering experience in design, supervision,
management, inspection, and quality control of a wide range
of civil engineering projects. Mr. Lunardini has developed
and managed projects in such areas as transportation, including
highways, airports, bridges and railroads; ports and harbors;
pipelines; water/wastewater systems; industrial development;
annexation, zoning, and comprehensive municipal and regional
planning; soils and foundation analysis; utility appraisals;
storm drainage and flood control; and has provided expert
testimony on numerous occasions and is a Construction Arbitrator
for the American Arbitration Association.
Military:
1st Lieutenant, U.S. Army
1954 - 1956
Professional Registration:
- Professional Engineer
Mississippi No. 2212
- Professional Engineer
Louisiana No. 10414
- Professional Engineer
Alabama No. 6868
- Professional Engineer
Illinois No. 62-20666
- Registered Land Surveyor
Mississippi, No. LS-2226
- Registered Land Surveyor
Louisiana, No. 02421
- Planner-in-Charge
Missouri
Professional
Affiliations:
- National Society of
Professional Engineers
- Consulting Engineers
Council
- American Society
of Civil Engineers
- Society of American
Military Engineers
- Mississippi Engineering
Society
- Professional Engineers
in Private Practice
- American Water Works
Association
- Water Pollution Control
Federation
- American Concrete
Institute
- American Arbitration
Association, Construction Arbitrator
Honors:
- Fellow, American
Society of Civil Engineers, 1973
- Who's Who in the
South and Southeast, 1976
- Who's Who in Engineering,
1981
- Advisory Committee,
American Arbitration Association
- Member, Distribution
System Operation and Maintenance Committee,
- AWWA (National)
Civic:
- Metro-Jackson Chamber
of Commerce
- Mississippi Economic
Council
- United Way
- Member, Mississippi
Arts Council
- Friends of the Jackson
Zoo
- Friend of the Jackson
Public Library
- American Contract
Bridge League
Project Management:
Responsibilities include management and administration, hiring and supervision
of all full time and contract personnel, client relations, fiscal policy,
and review of design and planning.
Served as Program Management Consultant, with two other consultants from 1986-
1989, for the City of Jackson Water System Improvements Program ($64 million
budget).
Duties and responsibilities associated with Program Management Services included:
- Preparation of Budget
and Financing Program;
- Preparation of water
rate studies and bond issue documentation;
- Presentation of engineering
feasibility to Standard and Poors, and Moody's for bond
rating;
- Review of cost estimates;
- Liaison between Owner
and Design Engineers;
- Development of cost-accounting
requirements related to cost monitoring and control, audit
needs and other factors;
- Preparation of design
and construction contracts;
- Coordination with
Governmental and special service districts or agencies.
Program Engineering Services
included:
- Preliminary design
of treatment, storage and distribution facilities;
- Development of final
design criteria;
- Value engineering
and constructability reviews of final design;
- Evaluation of training
programs and performance qualifications for operating personnel.
Program Construction
Services included:
- Document maintenance;
- Quality control of
construction inspection;
- Periodic progress
reports;
- Evaluation of start-up
services;
- Monitoring of warranty
inspection by Design Engineers.
Engineering and Surveying:
Engineering experience includes surveying, mapping,
feasibility and cost analyses, site selection studies, planning,
design, development and construction engineering for diversified
civil engineering projects, including:
- Major Street widening,
paving and drainage projects, consisting of planning, design,
construction phase services and contract administration.
- More than one hundred
fifty water and/or sewer projects for over sixty-five clients.
Water projects have consisted of supply, storage, pipeline,
treatment and distribution facilities. Sewer projects have
consisted of collection, interceptor and treatment facilities.
- 66" Cured-In-Place-Pipe,
West Bank Interceptor Sewer Rehabilitation (Fairgrounds)
- 36" Water Transmission
Main, 12,000 LF, Nissan
- 54" Water Transmission
Main, Lakeland Drive to J.H. Fewell Plant (11,500 LF)
- Comprehensive Master
Plans and/or Facilities Plans for Cities and public entities,
consisting of review of existing facilities, land use, zoning
regulations, and future needs and requirements in accordance
with Federal Grant Programs and E.P.A. Facilities Plan regulations.
- Annexation/incorporation
studies for Cities and public entities including expert
testimony.
- Appraisal of water
and sewer facilities in Mississippi, Louisiana and Florida
for various public and private entities.
- Construction Management
Services associated with water and sewer projects, consisting
of contract document interpretation, establishment of standards
of acceptability, observation of work quality and quantity,
and recommendations for payment and project acceptance.
- Expert witness testimony
in U.S. Federal Court, Chancery Court, and various State
Courts.
- Arbitrator for construction
litigation cases involving Owner/Contractor and Contractor/Sub-Contractor
disputes.
1959 - 1964 Chief
Planning Engineer, Michael Baker, Jr., Inc., Jackson,
Mississippi, Southern Division Office.
Duties included preliminary
planning, engineering design, general coordination and report
writing for streets, airports, port development and water
supply, and photogrammetric interpretation for soils mapping
of 39 miles of highway from Chena Hot Springs to Fairbanks,
Alaska. Planner in Charge in developing the Comprehensive
Master Plans for Vicksburg, Greenville and Owensboro.
1957 - 1959 Chief
Field Engineer, Testing Services Corporation, Lombard,
Illinois, in subsurface exploration and field testing. Prepared
technical reports on soils and foundations for buildings,
highways, and bridges.
1954 - 1956
Commissioned Officer, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers,
Staff Engineer, 2nd Logistical Command, engaged in planning
and writing of logistical exercises.
1954 Junior
Engineer, Michigan State Highway Department.
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Robert C. Lunardini
rlunardini@mscivilengineers.com
Education
 Bachelor
of Science, Civil Engineering Michigan
Technological University
Houghton, Michigan
Master of Science,
Civil Engineering
University
of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan
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