Mortimer is inside NDTScan's home territory. Working from Oxford, Neil Smuts covers Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire and Oxfordshire as a single patch, and Mortimer projects are scanned and interpreted by the same named specialist. There is no subcontracted operator and no anonymous report.
Mortimer has its own character for this work: Stratfield Mortimer, a station village on the Reading to Basingstoke line with new housing to the north. Across West Berkshire the recurring need is the same: to know exactly what is inside a concrete element before anyone drills, cores, cuts or specifies a repair.
What separates a dependable concrete scan from a superficial one is the interpretation. NDTScan concentrates most of its effort after the site visit: reviewing every radargram, correlating GPR with Ferroscan and ultrasonic data where the element demands it, and writing a report that an engineer can act on. Mortimer clients receive that standard of work as a matter of course.
NDTScan will always say this to a Mortimer 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 Mortimer client, and the reason NDTScan reports what the concrete contains before anyone specifies what to do about it.
Services Available in Mortimer
- 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 Mortimer 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 Mortimer structures.
Typical Mortimer Projects
Around Mortimer the instructions NDTScan receives are shaped by railway structures and station buildings and post-war housing where non-standard construction has to be identified before any works. Alongside those sit the constants of every Berkshire town: pre-drill and pre-coring scans on occupied buildings, post-tensioned slab investigation before any fixing or penetration, RAAC identification in schools and public buildings, and structural investigation before repair.
NDTScan also covers Burghfield Common, Reading and Silchester and the rest of West Berkshire. 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. Mortimer 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.