Aging Infrastructure - A Global problem
Published 2010-05-17 00:00:00
During the last 100 years and with the growth of modern society as we know it, we have created a massive network of infrastructure to help us in our everyday lives. Functional and efficient infrastructure is at the core of every successful and modern nation. Lately the aging of infrastructure is rapidly becoming a huge and very costly problem world-wide. Sewage systems, petrol tanks and gas lines are leaking, polluting our environment. Fresh water installations world-wide are failing and the world is losing fresh water worth billions of dollars annually. Roads, tunnels and bridges are deteriorating and collapsing. Repair work and new installations are delayed by time consuming detection work, accidents and lack of efficient ways to monitor and inspect installations.
The world needs cost effective, non-destructive and safe methods to investigate and monitor its aging infrastructure.
GPR has proven to be a useful and an effective method to non-destructively investigate the subsurface. The method can detect not only ferrous installations but also non-conductive PVC, fiber optics and terracotta utilities. GPR is considered an ideal tool for rapid mapping of road beds and a standard method applied by road agencies world-wide. During recent years, GPR has also become a standard for inspection of concrete structures such as bridges, tunnels and buildings.
GPR became main-stream for utility detection and mapping when MALÅ Geoscience introduced the MALÅ Easy Locator in the 2000’s. The Easy Locator revolutionized the use of surface radar, introducing GPR at affordable rates, creating the first cost effective GPR solution for utility mapping. The user-interface broke every barrier in terms of ease of use in the field and became a standard with locating professionals.
MALÅ Geoscience is the global leader in the design and manufacture of Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) systems and provides high quality, reliable and easy to use equipment to solve subsurface investigation needs. From years of experience with road and infrastructure applications, MALÅ Geoscience is well prepared to offer a cost-effective GPR solution for investigating the aging infrastructure problems that many of the cities worldwide now are facing.
MALÅ GPR Systems, such as the MALÅ RoadCart system provides a new breakthrough in GPR infrastructure technology for evaluating pavement, base and sub-base thicknesses. It is an extremely portable, user-friendly and cost-effective ground coupled platform that provides unmatched performance.
To meet the growing need of large scale surveys, MALÅ Geoscience created the MALÅ MIRA (MALÅ Imaging Radar Array) solution. Based on more than 10 years of research, MALÅ MIRA is today a comprehensive software and hardware solution and offers a unique solution for large scale mapping needs. Each year an increasing number of MALÅ MIRA solutions are being installed, helping state organizations and institutes to maintain and take care of their infrastructure assets. MALÅ MIRA has proven to be a solution that fully meets the need for large scale mapping of installed infrastructure and thereby saving large amounts of state funds annually.
All MALÅ GPR Systems are based on cutting edge research and produces high quality results. With its rough, flexible and modular design, the systems offer an easy to use approach and provide a cost-effective solution for professionals worldwide.
“With the systems comprehensive hardware and user-friendly software our customers will save both actual operation time and man-time which makes the MALÅ GPR solution the reliable and cost-effective alternative”
With over 70-years of professional experience, MALÅ Geoscience understands the needs of its customers and has developed a versatile range of products that offer solutions across a broad range of applications.
