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ENERGY reserve and intersect a tunnel that ’ s 70m below the ground 3m in diameter , 2.4ks away — those are the sort of jobs that we win . Lucas has a long history of completing those sorts of jobs in Australia .”
Sweeting cited “ the experience that ’ s been built up over the last forty years ” as what allows Lucas to not only take on more difficult jobs , but complete them in an efficient , smarter fashion . They accomplish this by tackling projects from several angles .
“ I think Lucas is really inquisitive by nature ,” Sweeting said . “ We look at different industries and the different technologies they apply . We seem to have quite a good history of cherry picking things out of different industries and then focusing that on our customer ’ s need .” This allows Lucas to tailor the approach based on the project .
“ We don ’ t have necessarily a solution that says , ‘ Here ’ s the Lucas solution and that ’ s good for everyone ,’” Sweeting said . “ We look at a client ’ s problem and take experience from various industries and apply it to that problem . The most prevalent example of that is taking experience from HDD ( horizontal direction drilling ) and applying it to long inseam holes for our mining clients .”
Ultimately , for Lucas , finishing a project is more than just ticking a box — it ’ s about finding a workable solution to an initial situation presented by a client . “ We find more and more we ’ re not competing with other companies ,” Sweeting observed . “ We ’ re to finding solutions that fit within our clients very strict budget constraints .”
“ Rather than saying ‘ This is our portion of the work ’ and being happy with that in isolation to everything else , we actually work with our clients to provide an end-to-end solution .” www . lucas . com . au / 135