Ground Penetrating RADAR discovered a viking ship at Romsdal County in Norway. The ship dates back to the Viking period or Merovingian period. The length of the ship was between 50 to 55 feet, and more than 1000 years old. Traces of a settlement was also found along with burial mounds. The discoveries were made by archaeologists from the Norwegian LBI ArchPro. This is not the only ship they have located through GPR. To learn more about LBI and the discoveries they are making you can find them located here: https://archpro.lbg.ac.at/

They needed to core 2 new holes in this area so we did some scanning and found them several places that were free of steel. One of the locations that were originally planned would have been right on top of a conduit this is another example of saving money but getting scanning.

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.

In many cases, a hole needs to be cored inside a wall. In these cases, We will remove the wall track in one location and scan both sides of the wall. Then through the section removed. In this example, we found that the beam stopped just at the edge of the wall, and no steel was running parallel inside the wall. We did locate a run of electrical conduits that ran right through the third section of the wall. This was also the main location that was set to be cored with 4 cores. They just relocated the cores to the second and fourth sections and were able to avoid the electrical conduits all together. This was billed as 3 scans and came out to be about 1/15 of the price of hitting the conduits. In the long run, it is always cheaper to scan.