About

Ground Penetrating Radar Systems

Since September of 2001, GPRS has performed expert private utility locating services on over a hundred thousand job sites nationwide.

By 2010, GPRS was named to INC 500’s “Fastest Growing Company Under 10 Million” list. And we didn’t get there without putting in the work! Since then, GPRS has grown from a single yellow vest worn by Matt Aston and GPRS staff to a dedicated national provider of above and below-ground intelligent visualization services. Over 500 Project Managers have completed extensive and elite training and hundreds of hours in the field to offer some of the very best and most accurate subsurface and aboveground infrastructure locating solutions.

Our nationwide team of Project Managers provide a full suite of industry-leading utility locating services, designed to help your team avoid accidental underground strikes that can result in costly repairs or severe injury. $61 billion is spent annually on utility strikes in the United States, and most of those are preventable with proper subsurface data.

Accidental underground utility strikes are one of the most common causes of damages and injury that excavation and construction teams face, yet they are avoidable. By employing an experienced professional private utility locating company like GPRS, you can get a complete and accurate location of all of the subsurface utilities.

GPRS is the only company in the U.S. that can capture your entire site or facility, above and below-ground, to provide you with accurate as-builts, private and public utility maps, 2D CAD drawings, and 3D photogrammetry and Building Information Models (BIM) that help you integrate surface and subsurface existing conditions and construction progress capture to provide cloud-based, digital mapping & modeling solutions for the construction, architecture, engineering, facility management, and related industries via SiteMap®.

Even better, GPRS provides a precise evaluation of job sites. We utilize industry-leading technologies and are consistently pursuing training and educational opportunities on the latest tools and techniques. GPRS takes pride in providing high-value, accurate utility locating services, and with project managers in every major metro area across the country, can offer them at your job site within hours.

At GPRS we believe that data control = damage control and we are committed to the pursuit of 100% subsurface damage prevention – on every job, in every market, nationwide.

That’s why every one of our 500 national “boots on the ground” team of elite Project Managers are trained in Subsurface Investigation Methodology (SIM). SIM elevates a mere technician to an expert professional with the cross-technology training and industry-leading processes that can locate, map, capture, measure, and scan your entire site or facility, above and below-ground, to provide you with the real-time actionable information you need to plan, design, manage, dig, and build better.

ADVANCED MAPPING AND MODELING FOR ACCURATE AS BUILTS

When record drawings do not match the as-built conditions, general contractors and facility managers are at risk of avoidable change orders, delays, budget overruns, and even damage or injuries. Let GPRS’ in-house Mapping & Modeling Team create an as-built (TruBuilt) for your project – showing actual existing conditions above or below ground… or both. Our 3D Laser Scanning, reality capture services, and 3D Photogrammetry services deliver up-to-date and accurate construction as-builts, existing condition drawings, 2D CAD drawings, 3D BIM models, 3D mesh models, digital twins, point clouds, updated floor plans (FLRPLN), and more for construction design, prefabrication, clash detection, facility modifications, and asset management.

Would you drive a car in a new city with a blind fold on, without a map? That’s what you’re doing every time you disturb the subsurface without the proper data and visualization. Don’t dig blindly, call GPRS before you break ground.

3 Key Issues to Consider

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Safety Of Your Team

The biggest reason to employ a utility locating service like GPRS on your project is to help keep your team safe from the result of an accidental utility strike. Severe injury, or death, can occur if they make contact with a live electrical line or high-pressure gas line. The only way to be 100% sure you won’t strike electrical, gas, sewer, water and data utilities is to get a complete and accurate utility locating map of the job site before you start, and the only way you can get that is by hiring a utility locating contractor like GPRS. Don’t become a part of a failed statistic by trying to cut corners on a project.

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Lost Business

The mainstay of any good construction company is repeat business from happy customers. With the multitude of technologies GPRS uses, we can scan for buried private utility lines, including electrical, gas, sewer, water and data lines. There is no reason to risk losing good customers over ignoring a fundamental project checklist item like a subsurface utility scan. Call BEFORE you dig! While 811 is a fantastic resource, they don’t have all the information, which is where GPRS comes in. Don’t risk your life, limb, and business, call us first.

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Unexpected downtime

If you do accidentally cut a post tension cable or damage a gas line, you will be required to pay for the repairs. Worst of all, the site may be deemed unsafe, which could cause costly delays in project completion. It may only be a day or two, but even a single hour of downtime will begin costing you money, unnecessarily. The possibility of compounding scheduling delays will occur since certain tasks have to be completed before others can take place. Keep your project on time, on budget, and safe with the utility locating services of GPRS.

  • GPRS Project Manager Utility Locating at a Jobsite

Why should you utilize GPRS?

Unlike your typical one-stop shop, at Ground Penetrating Radar Systems we focus on what we do best: Intelligently Visualizing The Built World®. When it comes to construction and facility management, every decision you make can cost time, money, and even lives. GPRS is in pursuit of a world with 100% subsurface damage prevention. Our 99.8% accuracy rate for ground penetrating radar services (GPR), utility locating services, utility mapping services, and concrete scanning services will locate critical targets like underground utilities, post tension cables, rebar, conduits, underground storage tanks (USTs), and more to help keep your project on time, on budget, and safe. Our NASSCO-certified CCTV video pipe inspection & leak detection services find pipe defects, blockages, and leaks with pinpoint accuracy.

Building on advancement and opportunity, we developed our own training center where every GPRS Project Manager is required to complete SIM certification training. They are trained on a variety of equipment, in a number of different settings and surfaces before they are permitted to perform field services on your job site. The staff of the GPRS Academy includes a full-time training and safety director to make sure all our Project Managers are skilled in operating our equipment with high levels of competence and confidence, while always being conscientious about performing duties safely and accurately.

Safety is one of the core values at GPRS and is a significant part of our company’s culture. Being in the construction or environmental industries, we are confident that is one of your core values as well. With this in mind, we train our team members comprehensively in all the ways needed to perform their job safely. Concrete scanning, private utility locating and video pipe inspection (CCTV) services come with built-in hazards. Through the GPRS Safety Program, OSHA classes and certifications, operator qualifications, The GPRS Training School, Fall Protection Training, Confined Space Training, CPR Training, First Aid Training and Classes, ERail Safe, and countless site other specific trainings, we are confident that our Project Managers will locate your subsurface obstructions safely and accurately. When you partner with GPRS you can have confidence that you are not only paying for best-in-class GPR services, you are hiring a firm that will keep your job site safe.

GPRS was one of the first utility locating contractors in the country to focus exclusively on concrete scanning and utility locating services. Though we primarily use ground penetrating radar, we’ve broadened our scope in the last decade to include thermal scanning and imaging, electromagnetic induction, Walk Thru 3D Tours, drone imagery, video pipe inspection, and more. At GPRS, we’re always looking for new ways to see the subsurface.

One of our new, groundbreaking products is SiteMap® (patent pending), an easy to use GIS platform. SiteMap®(patent pending) allows you to quickly access, view, and share your infrastructure data securely with subcontractors, engineers, and your team. All of your utility, structural, water & sewer, and facility information is uploaded into the SiteMap® Map Viewer and Digital Plan Room.

As GPRS strives to provide the most accurate and advanced customer experience, we are always finding new ways for you to interact with your job site. You can now document construction progress with Progressive Capture (ProCap), which utilizes 3D photogrammetry or 3D laser scanning to track the evolution of the site and document key project milestones. Virtual Tours like WalkThru 3D allow you to virtually walk-through a site or facility in minutes, take basic measurements, estimate clearances and distances, and add digital notes.

Since GPRS started in September 2001, we have built a nationwide network, with project managers permanently based throughout the United States. Point blank, we have worked on some of the largest and most significant construction projects in the country and take pride in offering services that keep crews safe and protect our clients time and money.

We Maintain a 99.8%+ Accuracy Rate in Utility Locating & Concrete Scanning on More Than Half a Million Jobs

We are the best at what we do because utility locating is our bread and butter. When you are faced with needing to know what lies below the surface of your job site, contact America’s most experienced utility and concrete scanning company. Your project’s success, and even your life, could depend on it.

Save yourself time, money and keep your team safe by utilizing the subsurface utility locating services at GPRS. BEFORE YOU BUILD, CUT, CORE, OR DIG, CALL GPRS

On average, each of our utility locating project managers perform 300 jobs per year.

We are the best at what we do because utility locating is our bread and butter. When you are faced with needing to know what lies below the surface of your job site, contact America’s most experienced utility and concrete scanning company. Your project’s success could depend on it.

Save yourself time, money and keep your team safe by utilizing the subsurface utility locating services at GPRS. Contact us today to find out how we can help with your next construction or excavation project.

Additionally, all field personnel complete the OSHA 10-hour construction safety course to ensure all of our workspaces meet safety requirements. The professionals from GPRS have worked in some of the most high-profile job sites in the country including:

Additionally, all field personnel complete the OSHA 10-hour construction safety course, and the OSHA 30- hour course to ensure all of our workspaces meet safety requirements. Our training and safety training is comprehensive, and is one of the most rigorous training programs within the country. The professionals from GPRS have worked in some of the most high-profile job sites in the country including:

  • Mt. Sinai Hospital Renovation New York, NY
  • Chemical Grout Injection Projects West Coast, FL
  • New Orleans International Parking Garage New Orleans, LA
  • Cross Texas Transmission Amarillo, Childress, TX
  • Maverick Tube Corporation Conroe, Texas
  • Canadian Hills Windfarm Calumet, Oklahoma
  • The Austonian Austin, Texas
  • BP Research Campus Naperville, IL
  • Underground Void Scan BP-Husky Refinery Toledo, OH
  • Underground Utility Locating Detroit Edison Monroe, MI
  • Chevron Facility San Francisco, CA
  • LAX - Terminal 6 Expansion Los Angeles, CA
  • Palmdale Regional Medical Center Palmdale, CA
  • Denver International Airport South Terminal Denver, CO
  • Devon Energy Riverton, WY
  • Sky Ridge Medical Center Lone Tree, CO
  • MDEQ LUST Projects State Of Michigan
  • The University of Michigan Taubman Library Ann Arbor, MI
  • Sunoco Pipeline Western Pennsylvania
  • Utility Locating Nationwide
  • Los Angeles Bar Association Los Angeles, CA
  • Seismic Upgrades Newport Beach, CA
  • LAX Airport Los Angeles, CA
  • Soil Stabilization Projects (300+ Projects/Year) West Florida
  • Sail Boat Bend Project Ft. Lauderdale, FL
  • Disney Monorail Communications Project Orlando, FL
  • Dr. Phillips Performing Arts Center Orlando, FL
  • Coral Gables Parking Garage Coral Gables, FL
  • Barbados Water Authority Project Barbados (Island)

Don’t keep your data buried in the sand, call GPRS today and see your job site in a new, easier, safer way.

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