Company Experience - Case Studies

Ground Penetrating Radar Case Studies

GPR Slab Thickness Evaluation: Contractors at a new vehicle production facility needed quality control assurance on a section of a slab on grade. Not only would it would be very costly to make random cores and repairs on the ceramic-coated slab, this method would require... [more]

Water Main Leak Under Interstate: Water leaked from beneath the pavement of a major interstate highway. It was suspected that a water main that crosses the area beneath this major thoroughfare was broken. A quick assessment was needed to ascertain the... [more]

Locating Water Leaks in Buried Water Pipelines: Finding a broken 2½ inch water main beneath a busy thoroughfare is not an easy task even if it was already known that there was a leak there... Our GPR team has been able to detect water leaks even on very large distribution mains... [more]

Geophysical Explorations & Location of UST's: GPR can detect buried metallic and non-metallic targets or underground storage tanks. In some cases, our clients may require the use of special electromagnetic detection equipment, such as the EM-61 metal detector. Our staff will... [more]

Investigation of Failure of Concrete Slab on Grade: Several linear cracks were found on the slab at a telephone switching facility in Tennessee. The plan specifications required a certain minimum slab thickness at this facility that housed several racks of batteries, each weighing... [more]