- Multi-Storey Car Parks
The Critical Role of Concrete Scanning in Multi-Storey Car Parks: An Insight by CR Scan
Urbanisation and the exponential growth of vehicles on our roads have made multi-storey car parks an essential fixture in cities worldwide. However, the safety and longevity of these structures hinge on their foundational strength and structural integrity. At CR Scan, we champion the cause of ensuring these edifices are sound from the core, utilising state-of-the-art concrete scanning methodologies. Our commitment is towards the thousands who use these car parks daily, ensuring they can park with peace of mind.


- Unravelling the Layers of Multi-Storey Car Parks
A comprehensive understanding of the multi-storey car parks sector is vital to appreciate concrete scanning’s undeniable importance:
Multi-Storey Car Parks: These vertically stacked parking solutions are more than mere concrete slabs. They bear the weight of countless vehicles daily and, as such, any hidden defect or weakness could lead to catastrophic failures.
Underground Car Parks: Nestled below buildings and sometimes even below streets, these car parks face unique challenges. The pressure from both the stored vehicles and the earth surrounding them necessitates a sound structure, free from potential weaknesses.
Strengthening Works: With evolving architectural techniques and the increasing weight and size of modern vehicles, older car parks often undergo strengthening works. This process typically involves adding or modifying the existing concrete.
Galvanic Systems: An ingenious solution to protect the embedded steel reinforcements in concrete, galvanic systems ward off corrosion, extending the life of the structure.
Concrete Repairs: Ageing, environmental factors, and regular wear and tear often result in the need for concrete repairs. Identifying the exact locations and extent of these repairs is paramount.
Movement Joints: Essential components in vast concrete edifices like multi-storey car parks, movement joints allow the natural thermal expansion and contraction of concrete, preventing potential cracks and failures.
Building Repairs: Beyond concrete, car parks come equipped with various facilities – from lighting and ventilation systems to safety barriers. Regular maintenance ensures their optimal functionality.

30-story office tower (2018-2019)


train station renovation (2016-2017)
- Concrete Scanning: The Silent Guardian of Multi-Storey Car Parks

For CR Scan, concrete scanning is more than a mere service. It’s a commitment to safety, precision, and long-term sustainability:
Predictive Analysis: Our advanced concrete scanning methods allow car park managers and owners to adopt a proactive stance. By identifying potential issues even before they manifest visibly, stakeholders can schedule concrete repairs or strengthening works efficiently.
Safety Assurance: Every scan we undertake is with the overriding objective of safety. Our state-of-the-art tools can detect hidden anomalies in movement joints, foundational slabs, or even the walls, ensuring all necessary corrective actions are taken promptly.
Cost-Effectiveness: Early detection invariably means fewer extensive building repairs down the line. By pinpointing issues at their nascent stages, we help our clients save considerably in long-term maintenance.
- Why Choose CR Scan for Your Concrete Scanning Needs?
Our prowess in concrete scanning, especially in the context of multi-storey and underground car parks, is underpinned by several attributes:
Technological Superiority: At CR Scan, we employ the most advanced concrete scanning technologies available. Whether it’s determining the health of movement joints or assessing the depth of concrete repairs, our tools ensure utmost precision.
Seasoned Expertise: Our team, rich in experience and knowledge, understands the nuances of multi-storey car parks, from galvanic systems to building repairs. This expertise translates to actionable insights for our clients.
Comprehensive Reporting: Detection, while crucial, is the beginning. We pride ourselves on offering in-depth reports that not only highlight potential issues but also suggest actionable recommendations.
Safety-Centric Approach: Every procedure, every scan is executed with an unwavering focus on safety. Our methodologies are non-invasive, ensuring minimal disruption to the day-to-day operations of the car parks.
Industrial Park construction (2019-2020)

Knowledge Pool
What is Concrete Scanning?
Concrete scanning is the act of reading what sits under a concrete surface via the use of non-intrusive technology.
This is done in order to identify whether there are elements sitting under a concrete’s surface or to obtain an understanding of a known element’s condition.
Concrete scanning is further able to identify whether anomalies such as voids or cracks exist under a concrete surface.
All of these scenarios are then interpret by our leading industry specialists who are readily available to help you with any endeavours you have in mind.
How is Concrete Scanning Conducted?
Concrete scanning is the conducted via the use of non-intrusive technology such as ground penetrating radar (GPR), a cover meter, ferroscan instrument, ultrasonic scanning equipment and the like.
This technological equipment is able to non-intrusively penetrate your concrete structure and understand what is going on beyond its surface.
Once this has been conducted, industry specialists are then able to interpret the findings and report back to you on the condition of your concrete.
Additionally, recommendations regarding how to repair any poor condition found within the concrete are likewise provided.
What can Concrete Scanning Detect?
Is Concrete Scanning Effective?
Concrete scanning is an extremely effective scanning method.
Concrete scanning experts consider ground penetration radar (GPR) technology to be the best technique for scanning concrete.
GPR penetrates deeper than other methods.
The technology Structural Repairs uses has a better resolution than Ferroscan and the Cover Meter. The detection is not limited to metallic objects like these two methods.
GPR is further able to detect changes in a concrete’s subsurface and can detect most materials including plastic, wood and voids.
Overall, however, GPR technology is known for its precise, effective and very successful outcomes as it is able to provide specialists and clients with full and comprehensive reports regarding the condition of a concrete structure.
Why is Concrete Scanning Required?
Benefits of Scanning Fire Damaged Concrete.
What Scanning Services do you actually offer?
Ground Penetration Radar
Our Ground Penetrating Radar services operate on a variety of difference concrete surfaces and structures.
They likewise hold the ability to identify and analyse an abundance of different sub ground elements and objects as a means to give you a clear picture of what is going on underneath your concrete.
As well as helping you identify the current conditions of your sub ground concrete, we are further able to assist you as we put into practice the remedial recommendations we have expertly suggested.
Before leaving the job site, Structural Repairs also make sure we communicate the best ways for you to maintain a healthy upkeep of your concrete going forward.
Rebar Corrosion Survey
Our comprehensive Rebar Corrosion Survey services utilise a range of non-intrusive methods in order to scan, identify and understand the current condition of the reinforcing bars under you concrete.
Via industry leading technology, we are able to provide you with a concise and comprehensive report. This will advise of exactly what is going on with your rebar.
What Are The Benefits Of Concrete Scanning?
Concrete scanning holds a plethora of different benefits. For example, it holds the ability to preserve the structural integrity of your concrete given that slicing through embedded elements can weaken the concrete and impact its structural strength.
Understanding what is going on under the surface of your concrete thus is likewise a time-consuming endeavour as it holds the ability to prevent large errors from taking place.
Cutting through a structure without being aware of any embedded elements can bring a project to a quick halt.
Avoiding damage and errors leads to cost savings as the project runs smoothly, thereby eliminating the need to repair damages, pay fines or penalties, or replace equipment or materials.
In all, a smooth project will allow for better for business to be conducted and will leave clients significantly more satisfied.
Multi-Storey Car Parks
In summation, the multi-storey car parks sector, with its unique challenges and vital societal role, deserves the best when it comes to maintenance and safety checks. Concrete scanning emerges as the non-invasive, precise, and cost-effective method to ensure these structures stand tall and safe. For entities keen on detecting and reporting on voids and hidden defects within and below their car park’s surfaces, CR Scan is the unequivocal choice. With cutting-edge technology, unparalleled expertise, and a steadfast commitment to safety, we stand ready to be your trusted partner in ensuring the longevity and safety of your car parks.
