Why Concrete Scanning Matters
Cutting, coring, or drilling into reinforced concrete without first scanning for internal obstructions risks severing structural rebar, post-tension cables, embedded conduits, or live electrical lines. The consequences range from costly rework and schedule delay to genuine structural risk on load-bearing elements. Concrete scanning removes this uncertainty before any cutting tool touches the surface.
Rebar Detection
Our GPR systems map the position, depth, and approximate spacing of reinforcing steel within a concrete element, allowing drilling and coring locations to be selected between bars rather than through them.
Post-Tension Cable Detection
Post-tension cables carry significant stored structural force, and accidentally severing one can cause sudden, dangerous cable release. These cables produce a distinct radar signature due to their duct and anchor hardware, which our engineers are trained to identify and flag clearly on every scan.
Concrete Thickness Measurement
GPR can measure slab and structural element thickness from a single surface, useful for verifying as-built conditions against design drawings or assessing existing structures where original records are incomplete.
Void Detection
Voids beneath slabs or within structural elements — caused by poor compaction, water erosion, or material degradation — appear as distinct radar anomalies and are readily identified during a concrete scan.
Conduit Detection
Electrical and data conduits embedded within concrete are mapped alongside reinforcement, giving a complete picture of everything inside the structural element before any penetration work begins.
Before Core Drilling & Before Cutting
Core drilling and saw-cutting are precision activities that benefit most directly from a pre-work scan, since the cutting tool path is fixed and unforgiving once work begins. We mark cleared drilling zones directly on the concrete surface for the execution crew.
Utility Clearance Survey
For larger excavation, piling, or directional drilling projects, a utility clearance survey extends this same clearance principle to the ground itself — confirming a specific work location is free of buried utilities before equipment is mobilized to that exact point. This is one of the highest-value, most requested services we provide, since it directly prevents utility strikes at the moment of highest risk: before excavation, before boreholes, before foundation work, before piling, before road works, and before directional drilling.