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Trenchless scanning for pipes, ducts, and buried infrastructure – essential for utilities maintenance and asset safety.
Utilities and Energy - NDTScan

Overview

NDTScan ensures the safety, reliability, and regulatory compliance of utilities and energy infrastructure through advanced non-destructive testing (NDT) services. From water treatment plants and power stations to electrical substations and renewable energy facilities, we assess asset integrity, operational resilience, and material condition without disruption to critical services.

Our inspections are vital to public health, environmental protection, and energy security. We detect corrosion, cracking, wall thinning, mechanical fatigue, insulation failures, and subsurface defects that can compromise asset safety, performance, and regulatory compliance. Using ultrasonic testing, radiographic inspection, drone surveying, ground penetrating radar (GPR), thermographic imaging, and acoustic emissions testing, we deliver forensic intelligence that enables proactive asset management and operational excellence.

We don’t just scan—we protect the lifelines of modern society, enabling safe, efficient, and sustainable utilities and energy networks.

Safeguarding Critical National Infrastructure

Utilities and energy assets operate under intense environmental, mechanical, and regulatory pressures. Early detection of material weaknesses and structural faults helps prevent failures, environmental incidents, and costly downtime, ensuring continuity of essential services to communities and industries.

NDTScan provides the specialist knowledge and high-precision data required by utility operators, energy companies, and infrastructure managers to protect critical national infrastructure and meet stringent compliance obligations.

How We Survey Utilities and Energy Assets

Our services cover water treatment plants, wastewater facilities, electricity substations, transmission lines, gas networks, solar farms, wind farms, biomass plants, and hydroelectric facilities. Our scanning and inspection equipment is ruggedised, intrinsically safe where required, and capable of deployment in operational, restricted, and hazardous environments.

We work flexibly around outage schedules, maintenance windows, and regulatory audit requirements. Reporting includes detailed defect mapping, corrosion profiling, fitness-for-service evaluations, and recommendations for maintenance, refurbishment, or replacement.

Our utilities and energy survey techniques include:

  • Ultrasonic Thickness Testing (UTT): Measures material loss in pipelines, pressure vessels, tanks, and structural supports.
  • Radiographic Testing (RT): Provides high-resolution imaging of welds, piping, and critical components without dismantling.
  • Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR): Maps buried utilities, subsurface structures, and potential voids affecting network integrity.
  • Drone-Based Surveying: Captures detailed imagery of overhead lines, solar arrays, wind turbine blades, and remote assets safely and efficiently.
  • Thermographic Imaging: Detects overheating, insulation failures, and electrical faults in power generation and distribution infrastructure.
  • Acoustic Emissions Testing: Monitors live structures and equipment for crack propagation, leakage, and stress-induced defects.

Why Utilities and Energy Clients Choose NDTScan

We work with water authorities, energy companies, grid operators, renewable energy developers, and critical infrastructure owners across the UK and internationally. Our trusted inspections support regulatory compliance, risk reduction, operational excellence, and sustainable infrastructure management.

Our reporting delivers clear, actionable intelligence that empowers clients to protect assets, extend operational life, ensure environmental responsibility, and maintain uninterrupted service delivery to the public and industry.

Utilities and Energy: Proactive Asset Integrity Through Advanced NDT

NDTScan delivers critical non-destructive testing (NDT) services across the utilities and energy sectors, ensuring the safety, reliability, and compliance of essential infrastructure. From water treatment facilities and power stations to electrical substations and renewable energy installations, our advanced NDT techniques assess asset integrity and operational resilience without disrupting critical services.

Our inspections are vital for public health, environmental protection, and energy security. We detect corrosion, cracking, wall thinning, mechanical fatigue, insulation failures, and subsurface defects that can compromise asset safety and performance. Utilising ultrasonic testing, radiographic inspection, drone surveying, ground penetrating radar (GPR), thermographic imaging, and acoustic emissions testing, we provide forensic intelligence that enables proactive asset management and operational excellence.

Enhancing Operational Efficiency and Compliance

Utilities and energy assets operate under intense environmental, mechanical, and regulatory pressures. Early detection of material weaknesses and structural faults helps prevent failures, environmental incidents, and costly downtime, ensuring continuity of essential services to communities and industries.

NDTScan provides the specialist knowledge and high-precision data required by utility operators, energy companies, and infrastructure managers to protect critical national infrastructure and meet stringent compliance obligations.

Comprehensive NDT Services for Utilities and Energy Assets

Our services encompass water treatment plants, wastewater facilities, electricity substations, transmission lines, gas networks, solar farms, wind farms, biomass plants, and hydroelectric facilities. Our scanning and inspection equipment is ruggedised, intrinsically safe where required, and capable of deployment in operational, restricted, and hazardous environments.

We work flexibly around outage schedules, maintenance windows, and regulatory audit requirements. Reporting includes detailed defect mapping, corrosion profiling, fitness-for-service evaluations, and recommendations for maintenance, refurbishment, or replacement.

Advanced NDT Techniques Employed

  • Ultrasonic Thickness Testing (UTT): Measures material loss in pipelines, pressure vessels, tanks, and structural supports.

  • Radiographic Testing (RT): Provides high-resolution imaging of welds, piping, and critical components without dismantling.

  • Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR): Maps buried utilities, subsurface structures, and potential voids affecting network integrity.

  • Drone-Based Surveying: Captures detailed imagery of overhead lines, solar arrays, wind turbine blades, and remote assets safely and efficiently.

  • Thermographic Imaging: Detects overheating, insulation failures, and electrical faults in power generation and distribution infrastructure.

  • Acoustic Emissions Testing: Monitors live structures and equipment for crack propagation, leakage, and stress-induced defects.

Supporting Renewable Energy Initiatives

As the energy sector transitions towards renewable sources, NDTScan supports the development and maintenance of solar farms, wind farms, and hydroelectric facilities. Our non-invasive testing methods ensure the structural integrity and optimal performance of renewable energy assets, contributing to sustainable energy solutions.

Ensuring Safety in Hazardous Environments

In environments where safety is paramount, such as nuclear power plants and high-voltage substations, our NDT services provide critical assessments without exposing personnel to risk. By employing remote and automated inspection techniques, we minimise human exposure while delivering accurate and reliable data.

Why Utilities and Energy Clients Choose NDTScan

We collaborate with water authorities, energy companies, grid operators, renewable energy developers, and critical infrastructure owners across the UK and internationally. Our trusted inspections support regulatory compliance, risk reduction, operational excellence, and sustainable infrastructure management.

Our reporting delivers clear, actionable intelligence that empowers clients to protect assets, extend operational life, ensure environmental responsibility, and maintain uninterrupted service delivery to the public and industry.

NDTScan provides advanced non-destructive testing (NDT) solutions tailored for utilities and energy. Our services ensure accurate, compliant, and efficient diagnostics across all sectors, from aerospace to infrastructure. With cutting-edge equipment and over a decade of experience, we deliver certified inspections that minimise downtime and maximise safety. Trust NDTScan for reliable, data-driven reporting that enhances your decision-making and operational excellence.

NDTScan ensures the safety, reliability, and regulatory compliance of utilities and energy infrastructure through advanced non-destructive testing (NDT) services. From water treatment plants and power stations to electrical substations and renewable energy facilities, we assess asset integrity, operational resilience, and material condition without disruption to critical services.

Our inspections are vital to public health, environmental protection, and energy security. We detect corrosion, cracking, wall thinning, mechanical fatigue, insulation failures, and subsurface defects that can compromise asset safety, performance, and regulatory compliance. Using ultrasonic testing, radiographic inspection, drone surveying, ground penetrating radar (GPR), thermographic imaging, and acoustic emissions testing, we deliver forensic intelligence that enables proactive asset management and operational excellence.

We don’t just scan—we protect the lifelines of modern society, enabling safe, efficient, and sustainable utilities and energy networks.

Safeguarding Critical National Infrastructure

Utilities and energy assets operate under intense environmental, mechanical, and regulatory pressures. Early detection of material weaknesses and structural faults helps prevent failures, environmental incidents, and costly downtime, ensuring continuity of essential services to communities and industries.

NDTScan provides the specialist knowledge and high-precision data required by utility operators, energy companies, and infrastructure managers to protect critical national infrastructure and meet stringent compliance obligations.

How We Survey Utilities and Energy Assets

Our services cover water treatment plants, wastewater facilities, electricity substations, transmission lines, gas networks, solar farms, wind farms, biomass plants, and hydroelectric facilities. Our scanning and inspection equipment is ruggedised, intrinsically safe where required, and capable of deployment in operational, restricted, and hazardous environments.

We work flexibly around outage schedules, maintenance windows, and regulatory audit requirements. Reporting includes detailed defect mapping, corrosion profiling, fitness-for-service evaluations, and recommendations for maintenance, refurbishment, or replacement.

Our utilities and energy survey techniques include:

  • Ultrasonic Thickness Testing (UTT): Measures material loss in pipelines, pressure vessels, tanks, and structural supports.
  • Radiographic Testing (RT): Provides high-resolution imaging of welds, piping, and critical components without dismantling.
  • Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR): Maps buried utilities, subsurface structures, and potential voids affecting network integrity.
  • Drone-Based Surveying: Captures detailed imagery of overhead lines, solar arrays, wind turbine blades, and remote assets safely and efficiently.
  • Thermographic Imaging: Detects overheating, insulation failures, and electrical faults in power generation and distribution infrastructure.
  • Acoustic Emissions Testing: Monitors live structures and equipment for crack propagation, leakage, and stress-induced defects.

Why Utilities and Energy Clients Choose NDTScan

We work with water authorities, energy companies, grid operators, renewable energy developers, and critical infrastructure owners across the UK and internationally. Our trusted inspections support regulatory compliance, risk reduction, operational excellence, and sustainable infrastructure management.

Our reporting delivers clear, actionable intelligence that empowers clients to protect assets, extend operational life, ensure environmental responsibility, and maintain uninterrupted service delivery to the public and industry.

Utilities and Energy: Proactive Asset Integrity Through Advanced NDT

NDTScan delivers critical non-destructive testing (NDT) services across the utilities and energy sectors, ensuring the safety, reliability, and compliance of essential infrastructure. From water treatment facilities and power stations to electrical substations and renewable energy installations, our advanced NDT techniques assess asset integrity and operational resilience without disrupting critical services.

Our inspections are vital for public health, environmental protection, and energy security. We detect corrosion, cracking, wall thinning, mechanical fatigue, insulation failures, and subsurface defects that can compromise asset safety and performance. Utilising ultrasonic testing, radiographic inspection, drone surveying, ground penetrating radar (GPR), thermographic imaging, and acoustic emissions testing, we provide forensic intelligence that enables proactive asset management and operational excellence.

Enhancing Operational Efficiency and Compliance

Utilities and energy assets operate under intense environmental, mechanical, and regulatory pressures. Early detection of material weaknesses and structural faults helps prevent failures, environmental incidents, and costly downtime, ensuring continuity of essential services to communities and industries.

NDTScan provides the specialist knowledge and high-precision data required by utility operators, energy companies, and infrastructure managers to protect critical national infrastructure and meet stringent compliance obligations.

Comprehensive NDT Services for Utilities and Energy Assets

Our services encompass water treatment plants, wastewater facilities, electricity substations, transmission lines, gas networks, solar farms, wind farms, biomass plants, and hydroelectric facilities. Our scanning and inspection equipment is ruggedised, intrinsically safe where required, and capable of deployment in operational, restricted, and hazardous environments.

We work flexibly around outage schedules, maintenance windows, and regulatory audit requirements. Reporting includes detailed defect mapping, corrosion profiling, fitness-for-service evaluations, and recommendations for maintenance, refurbishment, or replacement.

Advanced NDT Techniques Employed

  • Ultrasonic Thickness Testing (UTT): Measures material loss in pipelines, pressure vessels, tanks, and structural supports.

  • Radiographic Testing (RT): Provides high-resolution imaging of welds, piping, and critical components without dismantling.

  • Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR): Maps buried utilities, subsurface structures, and potential voids affecting network integrity.

  • Drone-Based Surveying: Captures detailed imagery of overhead lines, solar arrays, wind turbine blades, and remote assets safely and efficiently.

  • Thermographic Imaging: Detects overheating, insulation failures, and electrical faults in power generation and distribution infrastructure.

  • Acoustic Emissions Testing: Monitors live structures and equipment for crack propagation, leakage, and stress-induced defects.

Supporting Renewable Energy Initiatives

As the energy sector transitions towards renewable sources, NDTScan supports the development and maintenance of solar farms, wind farms, and hydroelectric facilities. Our non-invasive testing methods ensure the structural integrity and optimal performance of renewable energy assets, contributing to sustainable energy solutions.

Ensuring Safety in Hazardous Environments

In environments where safety is paramount, such as nuclear power plants and high-voltage substations, our NDT services provide critical assessments without exposing personnel to risk. By employing remote and automated inspection techniques, we minimise human exposure while delivering accurate and reliable data.

Why Utilities and Energy Clients Choose NDTScan

We collaborate with water authorities, energy companies, grid operators, renewable energy developers, and critical infrastructure owners across the UK and internationally. Our trusted inspections support regulatory compliance, risk reduction, operational excellence, and sustainable infrastructure management.

Our reporting delivers clear, actionable intelligence that empowers clients to protect assets, extend operational life, ensure environmental responsibility, and maintain uninterrupted service delivery to the public and industry.

Features List for Utilities and Energy Surveys

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Yes. Using Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR), we locate and map underground services such as water mains, gas pipes, electrical ducts and voids without any digging. This minimises disruption and speeds up project planning.
Absolutely. All NDTScan equipment is battery-powered and non-intrusive, meaning it can be safely used around high-voltage, high-pressure or water-bearing systems while the site remains operational.
Yes. We use ultrasonic thickness testing and phased array techniques to identify wall loss, pitting, and internal corrosion on storage tanks, pipelines, pressure vessels and more — even in hard-to-reach areas.
We do. Our confined space teams are trained and certified to enter chambers, culverts, filter beds and wet wells. We carry full rescue gear and follow robust entry procedures with water utility compliance (EUSR/Thames Water Passport).
We offer rapid mobilisation across the UK. In urgent cases — such as leaks, collapses or suspected voids — our team can often be on-site within 24 hours, delivering actionable insights and clear reporting.

Our NDT Process - Simplified

How NDTScan Delivers Clarity, Confidence, and Compliance

Initial Scope Consultation

We start by understanding your asset, its environment, and your inspection goals. Whether it's structural integrity, corrosion mapping or defect detection, our team tailors a solution that fits.

Advanced NDT Scanning

Using industry-leading equipment — including Trimble, Leica, DJI drones, and GPR systems — we perform detailed non-intrusive testing with minimal disruption.

Data Reporting & Analysis

You receive comprehensive, plain-English reports backed by high-resolution imagery, 3D models, and annotated scan maps. Data is delivered fast, often within the same week.

Recommendations & Support

Beyond inspection, we guide your next steps — from remedial works to structural interventions or re-inspections. We’re partners, not just service providers.

Precision Scanning. Proven Results. Trusted Nationwide.

Our performance protects your assets. Our technology leads the way. Our insight helps you decide.

We deliver specialist non-destructive testing (NDT) that helps you avoid risk, cut cost, and gain absolute clarity — across infrastructure, utilities, construction, marine and more.

Why Choose NDTScan

Changing the way industries think about inspection and assurance.

Proven, Compliant Technology

Our scanning systems are smart, secure, and fully compliant with UKAS, ISO 9712, and sector safety protocols. We bring the right tech to every job — no compromise.

Highly Skilled Team

Every NDTScan technician is certified, trained, and experienced in real-world environments — from rail tunnels to marine piles. You're in expert hands.

Certified, Auditable Results

We deliver UKAS-traceable reporting and standards-led inspection workflows — ideal for clients under CDM, Utilities, and Infrastructure compliance frameworks.

Support When You Need It

From urgent site visits to post-scan guidance, our team is on hand to support you — because clarity shouldn't wait until Monday.

FAQ - YAWA - Utilities and Energy

Frequently Asked Questions.

We understand that utilities demand fast, trenchless, and live-site safe solutions. Below you’ll find answers to common questions about mapping pipes, inspecting tanks, and responding to outages – helping you keep essential services flowing safely.
Yes. Using Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR), we locate and map underground services such as water mains, gas pipes, electrical ducts and voids without any digging. This minimises disruption and speeds up project planning.
Absolutely. All NDTScan equipment is battery-powered and non-intrusive, meaning it can be safely used around high-voltage, high-pressure or water-bearing systems while the site remains operational.
Yes. We use ultrasonic thickness testing and phased array techniques to identify wall loss, pitting, and internal corrosion on storage tanks, pipelines, pressure vessels and more — even in hard-to-reach areas.
We do. Our confined space teams are trained and certified to enter chambers, culverts, filter beds and wet wells. We carry full rescue gear and follow robust entry procedures with water utility compliance (EUSR/Thames Water Passport).
We offer rapid mobilisation across the UK. In urgent cases — such as leaks, collapses or suspected voids — our team can often be on-site within 24 hours, delivering actionable insights and clear reporting.