LAKDAS/YOHALEM ENGINEERING INC.
Our President
Lakdas Nanayakkara has remained a licensed professional engineer in the state of Florida for the last thirty-eight years, having worked as a professional structural engineer for over forty-six years. Lakdas leads the structural engineering services at Lakdas/Yohalem Engineering Inc.
Lakdas’ Experiences Includes Structural Design, Permitting, and
Construction Phase Engineering Services for the following:
■ High Visible and Miscellaneous Public Projects
■ Mast Arm Structures
■ Building Structures
■ Major Water and Wastewater Treatment Plants and Water
Control Structures
■ Bridge Engineering Structures
Lakdas has completed over 1200 projects in South Florida and the
Caribbean Basin during the last 38 years.
Value Engineering: Lakdas has participated as a structural expert
for over 31 value-engineering sessions for both FDOT and the
County’s major projects in building, bridges and water and wastewater treatment plants.
Our Value-Engineering services have saved:
■ Bridge projects over $4.5 Million
■ Building Projects, saved over #4.1 Million.
■ Water & Wastewater Treatment Plants saved over $4.6 Million.
Structural Failure Analysis and Expert Witness; Construction-Related Litigation
■ 12 Commercial Building Projects
■ 58 Residential Projects
Registrations
Engineering
■ Charted Structural Engineering, London, England -1981
■ Florida #037590
■ South Dakota - 4058
■ Minnesota - #17947
■ Structural Engineering Expert of Unsafe Structure Board - City of Margate Since “2001”
■ Structural Expert Witness Services Over 400 Residential Projects for Insurance Companies, 58 Projects Failure, Analysis and Expert Testimony Litigation Representation
Inspection
■ Certified Structural Masonry Inspector - 1992
■ Certified Threshold lnspector-1987
■ Certified Uniform Building Codelnspector-69
Construction
■ Florida Certified General Contractor - GC 044303
Professional Societies:
■ Institute of Structural Engineers, London, England
■ American Society of Civil Engineers, American Concrete Institute
■ Florida Institute of Consulting Engineers, The Masonry Society Civic Organizations
■ Member of Broward County Construction Executive Association and Member of Florida Consulting Engineers