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ASSET MANAGEMENT
GPR: From Glaciers to Conduits,
Digs Deeper so You Don't Have to
Blake Bacho | GPRS
The casual observer would think Trey Merrell just stinks at
mowing the lawn.
Pushing a red-and-black, four-wheeled cart that resembled
a lawn mower, he was walking in the correct, methodical grid
pattern that normally pressures neighbors into doing their own
yardwork. But the telltale sound of whirring blades was absent,
and the grass remained unspoiled.
That's because it wasn't a lawn mower that Merrell guided
across the Ford Motor Company's sprawling Research &
Engineering Center campus. The cart was a GSSI UtilityScan
ground penetrating radar (GPR) unit he was using to investigate
the labyrinth of infrastructure buried beneath the historic
facility in Dearborn, Mich.
" We've done a bunch of work here, " said Merrell, a project
manager at Toledo-based Ground Penetrating Radar Systems
(GPRS). " Ford is making a huge, generational investment in
[this] campus. This is the property that Henry Ford built towards
the end of his life and that his kids ran as their headquarters
for research and development. "
Merrell and his coworkers have been with Ford every step of
the way as the latter has undergone a years-long transformation
of its historic Dearborn R&D campus.
GPRS specializes in infrastructure visualization. Its nationwide
team of technicians - called project managers - offer a
suite of services that include utility locating, concrete scanning,
video pipe inspection, leak detection, 3D laser scanning, and
mapping and modeling.
GPRS has conducted utility locating and concrete scanning
at the Ford site - both services that rely primarily on GPR technology.
This non-destructive detection and imaging tool identiOPENING
PHOTO: A GPRS project manager conducts a ground penetrating radar (GPR) scan using an ImpulseRadar PinPointR scanner.
GPRS relies on GPR scanners like this one to help locate buried utilities and scan concrete structures for buried objects, such as rebar and
post tension cable. (Photo courtesy of GPRS)
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