Jackson Cardiss

I’m an Engineer in the Civils team at Aegaea, designing the infrastructure behind new developments: drainage networks, highways and the earthworks that tie them together. I joined in October 2026, bringing around ten years of civil engineering experience, all of it developed working in Leeds, where I grew up. What I enjoy most is a good technical challenge. Every site comes with its own constraints, and finding a solution that’s robust, buildable and good value is the part I find most rewarding.

How I can help you

• Highway and drainage agreements: Preparing Section 38, 278 and 104 packages to DMRB and Manual for Streets and working with local authorities to take designs through to technical approval.
• Drainage design and coordination: Designing drainage networks and coordinating below-ground drainage.
• Ground modelling and earthworks: Producing existing and proposed ground models and bulk earthworks analyses to balance cut and fill and reduce the volumes leaving site.
• Feasibility and layout checks: Assessing site constraints, runoff rates and attenuation at feasibility stage, and validating road layouts and site proposals.
• Design team coordination: Running clash detection with the wider design team to resolve conflicts between drainage, foundations and services before they reach site.
• Clear technical reporting: Writing the reports that accompany my designs, keeping them concise and technically accurate so they are easy for clients and approving authorities to follow.

Expertise in action

• Detailed design, 450-home development: Worked alongside the lead engineer on a large phased scheme, covering private drainage, signing and lining, and the S104 drawings.
• Detailed design, 214-home scheme: Carried out vehicle tracking to validate the internal road layout, reworked the site entrance geometry to accommodate larger vehicles, and amended the S278 package and design levels in response to local authority comments.
• Industrial estate spine road: Developed an approvable Section 38 design with the local council, coordinated streetlighting and the related S278 works, and used Civil 3D to communicate clashes with existing services to the client.
• Hospital emergency department refurbishment: Led the civils design from RIBA Stage 4, coordinating drainage with foundations and utilities, running clash detection.
• University manufacturing facility: Led the civils design from RIBA Stage 4 onwards, developing the below-ground drainage strategy.
• School sports pitches: Carried out extensive earthworks analysis and produced several options that helped the contractor reduce the volume of soil taken off site.

A bit about me

I started my career with an apprenticeship in 2016, which gave me a practical grounding in how designs become what’s built on site, and I’ve since completed a BSc in Civil Engineering. Outside the office, you’ll usually find me browsing a bookshop or antique shop for whatever catches my eye.