Hospital – Central Maine

A hospital in Central Maine had plans to remodel one of their areas, and to add lots of new subsurface utilties in the floors while they were at it. They worked up some cut plans for laying the new conduits, painted them onto the floors (in orange), then had us come in to clear the cut areas.

We used our concrete-scanning radar unit to clear the cut plans, rerouting them as necessary to make sure that the demo crew wouldn't cut into live conduit.

Electric Utility Substations – across Maine

Several different electric utilities have asked us to mark the underground cables and grounding grids at many of their substations around Maine. One of the utilities was planning to replace some huge transformers at some of its substations, and there was some concern that the enormous weight of the new transformers being moved into place might crush the cables and grids.

We had no trouble finding all of the buried objects, despite the strong electrical interference, and the installation of the new transformers went smoothly.

College – Midcoast Maine

We were called upon to perform a utility survey at a Maine college. The campus is large and has plenty of underground utilities supplying the various buildings.

Even so, our sophisticated detection equipment allowed us to locate each and every utility in the area of interest.

Airport – Southern Maine

A section of a southern Maine airport has radiant heat pipes embedded in the concrete floor. Radiant heat is a great and efficient heating technology, but it does make things tricky when the time comes to core the concrete.

But, our concrete-scanning radar unit precisely located the heat pipes – along with rebar and everything else in the floor – in minutes. With that data we quickly found a pipe- and rebar-free area for coring.