Thirteen trades. One crew.
One PO from locate to pourback.
Most GPR shops locate and leave. We stay on-site from the first scan to the final firecaulk — sawcut, dig, core, trench, scan, cut, recompact, pourback, firecaulk. Battery-electric excavator and skid loader mean we can do it inside your building without a single air scrubber.
Concrete Cutting, Coring, Wall Saw & Pourback
This is what we're known for. Track wall saw, hand saw, core drill, chain saw — whatever the cut demands. Square openings with clean corners for plumbing chases, floor boxes, MEP penetrations, and expansions. No rock hammers. No jagged edges. When we're done, you get a pourback that matches the surrounding slab in thickness, elevation, and finish. We cut asphalt too.
What we cut
- Track wall saw — deep, square openings in walls and elevated slabs
- Slab sawcut — floor boxes, plumbing chases, expansion joints
- Core drilling — 1/2" through 24" cores, any depth
- Asphalt sawcut — clean lane cuts, minimal disturbance
- Chain saw & wire saw — for tight or oversized cuts
Then we pourback
- Haul away all debris and slurry
- Rebar tie-in when required
- Match slab thickness, elevation, and mix
- Trowel finish to match surrounding surface
- All cores firecaulked to code before we leave
Battery-Electric Mini Excavator & Skid Loader
We run one of the only battery-electric mini excavators in commercial service in the United States — paired with a battery skid loader. Zero diesel. Zero propane. Zero exhaust. Which means we dig where diesel crews can't: inside hospitals, occupied Class-A offices, clean rooms, kitchens, and after-hours retail.
Why it matters
- No air scrubbers, no CO monitors, no shutdown. We can excavate on a floor with tenants above and below.
- Hospital-approved. We've dug inside active healthcare facilities without disrupting patient care.
- Whisper-quiet. No engine roar means night work without a noise variance.
- Full-shift battery + fast-swap packs. No fuel trucks in and out of a secure site.
Typical jobs
- Interior trenching for plumbing, electrical, and floor-box installs
- Vault excavations inside occupied buildings
- Elevator pit and sump excavations on active retrofits
- Clean-room and lab equipment pit prep
- Night-shift work in noise-restricted zones
GPR Concrete Scanning
Before we — or anyone — cuts, we scan. Ground-penetrating radar locates rebar, post-tension cables, conduit, radiant tubing, and voids inside slabs, walls, decks, and columns up to 18 inches thick. You get marked go/no-go zones on the surface and, when needed, a PDF report suitable for GC submittals.
Where it saves you money
- Cutting a PT cable can cost $50k–$250k in structural repair. A scan costs a fraction of that.
- Rebar strikes damage bits, blow tolerances, and force a re-core.
- Hitting radiant tubing floods a finished floor and pauses the trade sequence for days.
What we deliver
- On-site marks in orange keel or paint (per your spec)
- Photo-documented scan area with grid coordinates
- Optional PDF report with depth-to-target and confidence notes
- Elevated slabs, walls, floors, columns — all standard
Private & Public Utility Locating
Blue Stakes / 811 only marks public utilities up to the meter — anything past that (your parking lot, your campus, your interior loop) is on you. That's where most utility strikes happen. We combine GPR, EM (electromagnetic) locators, and acoustic tools to find and mark private utilities on-site before excavation.
What we can locate
- Electrical primary & secondary conduits (energized and de-energized)
- Communications: fiber, coax, twisted pair
- Water & sewer lines (metallic and non-metallic where GPR contrast permits)
- Gas & fuel lines
- Storm drains, irrigation, and unknown legacy laterals
How we work
- Multi-method sweep — GPR + EM + acoustic — to catch what one tool would miss
- Painted & flagged marks per APWA color code
- Digital deliverable: annotated site map or KMZ on request
Hydrovac Services & Potholing
When utilities are live and mechanical digging is too dangerous, we use high-pressure water and a vacuum truck to daylight them safely. Hydrovacing confirms depth, material, and orientation of buried utilities before your mechanical crew shows up — and lets us pothole crossings for HDD and open-cut work.
Use cases
- Daylighting utilities for design verification
- Potholing HDD bore alignments at every crossing
- Exposing vaults, valves, and transformer connections
- Debris removal from trenches and hand-dug holes
- Frozen or hard-pan soil excavation
Soil Trenching & Excavation
Trenches to transformer pads, plumbing routes, vaults, and equipment pads. Straight lines, spec-depth, recompaction to 95%. On outdoor jobs we run diesel iron; on indoor and occupied jobs we swap in the battery excavator. Either way, we come back and pourback so you don't have to hire a second crew.
Scope
- Trench-to-transformer for utility upgrades
- Plumbing chase excavation inside buildings
- Vault excavation and setting
- Equipment pad prep & recompaction
- Emergency repair excavation
Included
- Excavation, spoils haul-away, and disposal
- Recompaction to engineered spec (95% typical)
- Pourback of trench top and adjacent slab restoration
- Coordination with utility, low-voltage, and MEP trades
Fire Caulking — Hilti & STI Certified
Every core we cut gets firestopped before we leave the job. We're certified applicators for Hilti FS-One and STI SpecSeal — the two most-specified firestop systems in commercial construction. Photo-documented, code-compliant, ready for inspection.
Systems we install
- Hilti FS-One MAX Intumescent Sealant
- Hilti CP 606 Flexible Firestop Sealant
- STI SpecSeal Series (SSS, LCI, LC intumescents)
- Mortar and putty firestop assemblies for large penetrations
Standard deliverable
- Photo of every completed penetration
- UL system number tagged and documented
- Inspection-ready label at each core
- Punch-list submittal for GC records
Pipe Camera CCTV — Robot & Push
Sewer and storm inspection using self-driving crawler cameras for mainlines and push cameras for laterals. Locate blockages, breaks, offset joints, root intrusions, and cross-bores — with sonde-tracked position so the repair crew knows exactly where to dig.
What we deliver
- Video footage with distance and clock-position callouts
- Sonde-tracked surface marks at any point of interest
- NASSCO-style condition coding on request
- Cross-bore detection for gas-in-sewer investigations
Leak Detection
A pinhole leak under a slab can waste 500+ gallons a day and rot a foundation before you smell it. We use pressure isolation, acoustic amplification, and GPR to pinpoint the leak — not tear open the whole deck to guess.
What we find
- Pool & spa shell leaks, skimmer & return line breaks
- Slab leaks in hot and cold domestic water lines
- Irrigation main breaks under hardscape
- Radiant heat & snow-melt loop failures
- Sewer & drain infiltration points
Underground Storage Tank Location
Abandoned USTs, septic tanks, and forgotten vaults are landmines for redevelopment projects and Phase II environmental assessments. We locate them with GPR + EM + magnetics before you break ground — often confirming or ruling out the presence of a tank in a single site visit.
Typical clients
- Environmental firms conducting Phase II ESAs
- Developers with legacy fuel-station or industrial sites
- Property owners preparing for real-estate transactions
- Municipalities managing decommissioned infrastructure
Trench & Borehole Clearing
Geotechnical, environmental, and structural drilling programs need clear proof that a bore or trench line is free of utilities before the auger drops. We pre-clear boreholes and trench alignments with GPR + EM so your drill crew doesn't sit idle — or worse, hit an unmarked line.
Where it fits
- Pre-drill clearance for geotechnical borings
- Environmental monitoring well siting
- Foundation caisson and micropile programs
- Trench alignments for underground utility installs
Bridge Deck Inspection
Reinforcement mapping, depth-of-cover verification, and corrosion detection for DOT and municipal bridges. Our multi-channel 3D array captures an entire lane in a single overnight closure — no re-mobilization, no partial coverage.
Deliverables
- Depth-slice PDFs at 1-inch resolution
- CAD-ready overlays (DWG / DXF) tied to site control
- Rebar cover verification per lane and station
- Delamination and honeycomb mapping
- Corrosion susceptibility mapping
Geophysical Investigations
For the harder subsurface questions — karst voids, contaminant plumes, forensic recoveries, archaeological mapping — we deploy multi-method geophysics: EM, seismic refraction, resistivity, magnetics, and multi-frequency GPR. Every scan is documented with chain-of-custody-grade reporting.
Use cases
- Karst & void mapping under building pads
- Landfill & brownfield subsurface characterization
- Forensic burial & evidence recovery (LEO-only engagements)
- Archaeological & historic-site pre-disturbance surveys
- Airport apron & runway subsurface QA
Locate. Cut. Dig. Pourback. All under one roof.
Call the office directly or send us the site details — we'll dispatch the right crew, often same-day.
Service questions
What's the difference between GPR and traditional utility locating?
GPR (ground penetrating radar) sees through concrete and asphalt to find rebar, post-tension cables, conduit, voids, and utilities inside structures. Traditional utility locating (electromagnetic) traces buried metal utilities in soil. On complex sites we use both.
How deep can GPR scan?
Depends on the concrete and antenna. Standard structural scans reach 12-18 inches. With a lower-frequency antenna and favorable soil, we've located utilities and voids down to 8-10 feet.
What sizes can you core and cut?
Core drilling from 2 inches to 36 inches and larger. Wall sawing, slab sawing, hand sawing, ring sawing, track sawing. We work around rebar, conduit, and post-tension cables safely.
Do you do pourback and firestopping too?
Yes. That's why clients call us for the whole scope — locate, cut, dig, pourback. Matched-mix concrete pourback, rebar tie-in, and UL-listed firestop details, all documented with photos.
Which industries do you specialize in?
Commercial construction, industrial/manufacturing, airport, hospital, data-center, government, military, and infrastructure. Anywhere structural concrete needs to be scanned, cut, cored, or restored safely.