GPR Concrete Scanning can locate the edges of beams by tracking the thickness of the slab. GPR Concrete Scanning can also find beams by the steel pattern, depth, and quantity of steel located inside. It saves time and money to know your beam locations and saw cut around them, than to try saw cutting 16+ inches of concrete.

In this GPR Concrete Scanning job, we were able to locate the grade beams by the depth of the rebar and the presents of rebar ties or saddles. We were also about to locate the large metal plate reinforcing the floor for the heave medical machinery. GPR Concrete Scanning only needs access to one side of the slab, so unlike x-ray, it can make easy work of slab on grade applications.

This conduit was in the path of a saw cut need to link up with the drain. Our GPR was able to locate it so the saw cutting company was able to chip around the conduit and avoid the issues that cutting this 240 volt line would have caused. GPR for Slab-on-Grade applications works very well for anything ran inside the slab. However, depending on the number of voids in the gravel layer locating runs in the dirt is not always possible. In this case, the conduit in the concrete was easy to locate, but the drain pipe under the slab ran in the dirt was not visible to GPR.

This was from a hotel in Chattooga, Tennessee we were called out because they had already hit an electrical conduit in the slab which is too often the case. This is a cross-section from the mechanical room that was slab on grade. We were able to prevent them from hitting two more conduits. ALWAYS SCAN BEFORE YOU CORE, SAW, or DRILL! It will save you way more time and money in the long run.