NDTScan provides advanced non-destructive testing (NDT) solutions tailored for vehicle-mounted inspection. 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 provides high-efficiency vehicle-mounted inspection services, enabling rapid, non-invasive surveying of highways, bridges, tunnels, and large-scale infrastructure assets across the UK. Using cutting-edge ground-penetrating radar (GPR), LiDAR, and imaging systems, we deliver comprehensive subsurface and surface analysis without disrupting traffic flows or site operations.
Our inspections redefine efficiency. We scan thousands of square metres quickly, identifying hidden defects such as voids, settlement, cracking, and delamination that would otherwise remain undetected until failure.
We don’t just drive — we safeguard critical infrastructure, optimise maintenance budgets, and inform strategic asset management planning.
Efficient Infrastructure Inspection at Scale
Roads, bridges, and tunnels face continual degradation from load stresses, weather, and environmental impacts. Our vehicle-mounted solutions provide continuous, real-time scanning to detect deterioration early, enabling proactive maintenance interventions.
NDTScan leads the UK in mobile inspection solutions. All operations are aligned with Highways England, Network Rail, and Department for Transport standards, ensuring compliance, safety, and reporting quality.
How We Deliver Vehicle-Based Surveys
Every asset type presents different scanning challenges. Our modular vehicle setups allow flexible deployment across motorways, local roads, airfields, and industrial sites, adapting to client-specific project scopes.
Our inspection vehicles can operate day or night, often without requiring traffic management or lane closures, greatly reducing survey costs and disruption.
Our mobile inspection capabilities include:
- Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) Surveys: Maps subsurface layers, utilities, voids, and construction anomalies.
- LiDAR Scanning: Creates detailed 3D models of infrastructure surfaces for assessment and planning.
- Surface Condition Imaging: Detects cracking, rutting, potholes, and surface failures rapidly.
- Void and Delamination Detection: Identifies internal separations in bridge decks, pavements, and subgrades.
- Automated Data Capture: Supports asset inventories, condition scoring, and lifecycle planning tools.
Why Clients Choose NDTScan for Vehicle-Mounted Inspection
We serve highway agencies, contractors, civil engineers, and infrastructure owners requiring rapid, high-volume inspections. Our vehicle-mounted solutions dramatically reduce survey timelines while increasing data coverage and quality.
With powerful onboard systems, certified operators, and proven compliance, NDTScan accelerates infrastructure safety, maintenance planning, and asset lifecycle management.
Scaling Up Condition Monitoring with Vehicle-Mounted Inspection
Large-scale infrastructure networks demand inspection solutions that combine speed, coverage, and precision. NDTScan’s vehicle-mounted inspection technology meets this challenge head-on, offering high-speed, high-resolution scanning across vast road networks, airfields, bridge approaches, and tunnel sections. Our systems allow asset owners to collect actionable subsurface and surface data without disruption to operations or the travelling public.
From carriageway deterioration to deck delamination, our mobile platforms deliver continuous insight into infrastructure condition. These results are used by engineers and asset managers to target interventions more precisely, reduce maintenance backlogs, and optimise long-term expenditure.
Vehicle-mounted inspection has become a cornerstone of predictive asset management, particularly in the context of growing repair demand and constrained budgets.
Rapid Deployment with Consistent High-Quality Output
Unlike traditional inspection methods that rely on static surveys or restricted-access testing, vehicle-mounted inspection captures condition data while moving at operational speeds. This drastically reduces the time and resources required for surveying while increasing the frequency and reliability of condition intelligence.
NDTScan’s fleet is equipped with integrated sensor arrays that include GPR antennas, high-speed line scanners, and calibrated laser systems. These allow us to detect anomalies such as voids, rutting, cracking, material separation, and subsurface instability as we scan, with no need for lane closures or escort vehicles in many cases.
Our technicians operate across dual carriageways, motorways, A-roads, airport taxiways, and industrial logistics routes, delivering reliable data at scale. Where required, vehicle-mounted inspection can also be paired with targeted ground-truth verification to ensure complete confidence in results.
Supporting Preventative Maintenance and Budget Allocation
Unseen defects such as sub-base voiding, water ingress, or deck delamination can quickly escalate into hazardous failures or costly emergency repairs if not identified early. NDTScan’s vehicle-mounted inspection services provide the visibility required to detect these faults before they become critical, supporting smarter, preventative maintenance strategies.
With accurate mapping of deterioration trends, asset owners can better plan interventions, reducing the likelihood of reactive works. Our datasets help prioritise investment based on real asset condition rather than assumptions or age-based models.
When applied as part of a rolling inspection regime, vehicle-mounted surveys enable trend analysis and deterioration modelling. This approach strengthens asset management frameworks and supports funding bids with tangible evidence of need and risk.
Enhancing Infrastructure Inventories with Digital Mapping
One of the key advantages of vehicle-mounted inspection is the ability to digitise and geolocate infrastructure assets as part of the survey process. Our systems capture spatial data that can be used to update asset inventories, identify undocumented features, and support digital twin development.
LiDAR-generated 3D models of roads, shoulders, kerbs, and drainage structures provide a detailed base layer for maintenance planning, resurfacing design, and network audits. Where required, our imagery and datasets can be structured to align with Highways England’s Pavement Management System (HAPMS), local authority GIS platforms, or BIM environments.
This digital mapping capability is especially valuable in post-construction validation, as-built verification, and handover documentation. It ensures that what has been built or maintained is recorded accurately and in full compliance with specification.
Monitoring Structural Interfaces and Repetitive Stress Zones
Joints between structures — such as the interface between a bridge deck and the approach carriageway — are subject to repetitive loading, thermal cycling, and material mismatch. These are among the most failure-prone zones within transport infrastructure.
NDTScan’s vehicle-mounted inspection technology is uniquely positioned to assess these transition areas at speed, providing high-resolution imaging and depth profiling that reveal early signs of joint failure, settlement, or pavement break-up.
By capturing continuous data over long linear assets, we help identify recurring stress patterns, high-risk areas, and structural hotspots before they affect performance or safety. These insights feed directly into design improvements, retrofit works, and asset lifecycle assessments.
Meeting Regulatory and Engineering Standards
Our vehicle-mounted inspection operations comply with all relevant national standards and guidance. This includes alignment with DMRB requirements, Network Rail infrastructure protocols, Department for Transport pavement standards, and Transport Scotland asset strategies.
All inspection vehicles are operated by trained and certified staff, and our data acquisition methods are traceable, repeatable, and supported by calibration protocols. We also work closely with engineering consultancies and public authorities to ensure our survey outputs meet tender documentation and reporting formats.
Where inspection results form part of condition-based risk assessments, we provide structured scoring and defect grading that integrates with industry-accepted asset management systems.
Reducing Disruption While Maximising Coverage
A major challenge in infrastructure inspection is balancing accuracy with public impact. Traditional survey methods often involve lengthy closures, traffic control, or phased deployment — all of which carry cost and reputational risk.
By contrast, vehicle-mounted inspection delivers maximum coverage with minimal disruption. Our ability to survey during live traffic conditions — even at night or in off-peak periods — means surveys are completed faster and with lower overhead.
For clients managing network performance metrics or service availability targets, this low-disruption approach is essential. It allows for frequent condition assessments without affecting road user experience or operational schedules.
Contributing to Asset Resilience and Whole-Life Value
NDTScan’s vehicle-mounted inspection solutions are not just a tool for defect detection — they are a foundation for sustainable asset management. By uncovering hidden weaknesses early and validating repairs post-completion, we help infrastructure owners achieve better lifecycle outcomes.
Repeatable, scalable, and highly accurate, our surveys reduce the risk of asset failure, minimise reactive maintenance, and support compliance with performance-based contracts. In doing so, we deliver a measurable contribution to infrastructure resilience, safety, and value for money across the UK’s strategic transport and civil networks.