NDTScan provides concrete scanning in Hurst as part of its core Berkshire coverage. The company is based in Oxford and led by Neil Smuts, who carries out and interprets the surveys himself rather than passing the data to a back office. For Hurst clients that means one accountable specialist from the first call to the final report.
Hurst sits within Wokingham Borough, and the work here follows the pattern of the wider county: Thames Valley commercial estates, dense Victorian and interwar housing and the heavy concrete of the 1960s and 1970s office and hospital building boom. Across Wokingham Borough the recurring need is the same: to know exactly what is inside a concrete element before anyone drills, cores, cuts or specifies a repair.
Most scanning companies stop at marks on the surface. NDTScan does not. Every Hurst survey goes through careful office post-processing, where reflections are analysed, ambiguities resolved and the interpretation checked against the drawings and the element's history. The result is a record the client can design from, defend in a dispute and hand to an auditor.
NDTScan will always say this to a Hurst 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 Hurst client, and the reason NDTScan reports what the concrete contains before anyone specifies what to do about it.
Services Available in Hurst
- 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 Hurst 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 Berkshire 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 Hurst structures.
Typical Hurst Projects
In and around Hurst, NDTScan is most often asked for pre-drill and pre-coring surveys, post-tension detection in suspended slabs, RAAC identification in education and community buildings, rebar and cover mapping to support engineering assessments, and interpreted investigation of existing concrete before any repair is designed.
NDTScan also covers Twyford, Wokingham and Winnersh and the rest of Wokingham Borough. 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. Hurst and the whole of Berkshire are within the company's everyday working area, and all work is reported to a standard suitable for engineering acceptance.