Hazlemere is inside NDTScan's home territory. Working from Oxford, Neil Smuts covers Buckinghamshire, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire and Oxfordshire as a single patch, and Hazlemere projects are scanned and interpreted by the same named specialist. There is no subcontracted operator and no anonymous report.
The building stock around Hazlemere is typical of Buckinghamshire: Chiltern market towns, post-war new town estates and a large stock of mid-century schools, hospitals and council housing. Wherever the work sits in Buckinghamshire, the question NDTScan is answering is what the concrete actually contains, and how much of it can be trusted.
The on-site capture is only the first step. NDTScan's value is in the post-processing: analysing reflections, cross-checking traces against each other, resolving ambiguous returns and producing a fully interpreted result. In Hazlemere, as everywhere else, the data is worked up in the office before a single conclusion is drawn, and the report says plainly what was found, what was not found and how confident the reading is.
NDTScan will always say this to a Hazlemere client considering repairs: scan first. A repair specified without a proper survey and an expert interpretation is a repair to a guess. The survey establishes what is really there, so the engineer can design for the structure that exists rather than the one on the drawings.
Scan before you repair. That is the standing advice for every Hazlemere client, and the reason NDTScan reports what the concrete contains before anyone specifies what to do about it.
Services Available in Hazlemere
- GPR Concrete Scanning Pre-drill and pre-coring surveys, rebar and mesh mapping, post-tensioned tendon detection, void and honeycombing detection, slab thickness and cover measurement and RAAC identification. Method and antenna selected for the Hazlemere element in question, with the full interpreted record supplied.
- Ultrasonic Testing of Concrete Ultrasonic pulse velocity testing for uniformity and quality assessment, pulse echo for thickness and delamination where only one face is accessible, and the combined SONREB method for compressive strength estimation. Used across Buckinghamshire where GPR alone cannot answer the question.
- Concrete Compressive Strength Assessment Rebound hammer surveys, UPV combined method and managed core extraction with laboratory testing to BS EN 13791. Independent reporting suitable for engineering acceptance, building control and dispute work on Hazlemere structures.
Typical Hazlemere Projects
Typical Hazlemere instructions include pre-drill scanning before mechanical and electrical installations, rebar and cover mapping for structural alterations and extensions, RAAC and non-standard construction identification in public and housing stock, slab thickness and void checks on ground floors and hardstandings, and full structural investigation where a repair is being considered.
NDTScan also covers High Wycombe, Holmer Green and Tylers Green and the rest of Buckinghamshire. Every one of these areas is reached from the Oxford base without a subcontractor in the chain.
About NDTScan
NDTScan is a specialist non-destructive testing company based in Oxford and led by Neil Smuts. Its core disciplines are GPR concrete scanning, ultrasonic testing and in-situ compressive strength assessment, brought together in its concrete scanning and structural condition survey service. NDTScan is a Level 4 UKCSS Operator, the first in the UK to achieve that certification. Hazlemere and the whole of Buckinghamshire are within the company's everyday working area, and all work is reported to a standard suitable for engineering acceptance.