Saturday, May 13, 2017

Overview of ipc Services

Designed to make infrastructure inspections more comprehensive and do away with lane closures,bucket trucks lifts (that delay traffic and cause accidents), perform daytime inspections and are less costly. IPC is focused on transportation infrastructure including bridge inspections and high mast light pole inspections.

Infrastructure Preservation Corporation has 6 primary services that include bridge inspections and high mast light pole inspections. Some of the inspection services are listed below.

CableScan® Cablescan® is a robotic device that ascends and descends Bridge Cablestays taking high definition videos & stills. It has the ability to maneuver around the grout ports on a cable if any.

There is a ground station that allows the inspector to see all four quadrants of the cable.  It can stop at any point and take detailed photos 30mp stills.  A Lidar attachment can get length width and depth of any anomaly’s .  Its meant to be operated in the daytime without lane closures or bucket trucks. It also measures the location on the cable stay that the issue is and where along the ground so if a bucket truck is required the exact location to park the repair truck is available.

Polescan® is a robotic device that ascends and descends a high mast light pole. PoleScan® takes hd video of the entire pole. Also stops if any issues are found and takes hd photos. The pole, seams and luminaries are all inspected with much greater detail than ever before.

Tendonscan® Tendonscan® inspects external tendons within box girders and the bridge tendons that hold up many of our nations bridges. TendonScan® identifies corrosion within the tendon to .1 percent. It’s a 2 part product. One is a device that goes around a tendon and can manually or robotically climb the tendon and locates the pre-cursors to corrosion, air, water and bleeding grout. The second device specifically locates section loss or corrosion.

Crackscan is a laser device that detects cracks in concrete and steel structures. CrackScan® can be used underneath box girders, slabs or from a distance. CrackScan® can locate cracks down to .005 from a distance of  100 feet away. The idea is for the inspection to be conducted during the day from the shoulder of the road.  No lane closures, nighttime inspections or boom trucks required. Takes less time and has been proven much more accurate than the current manual inspection process.

Bridgescan is another service that we have. It is a full bridge deck deterioration assessment.. BridgeScan® is meant to replace the chain dragging and provide a complete bridge deck and bridge approach way inspection. The inspection is so different from current methods that  it is patented.  The service utilizes ground penetrating radar / magnetics as part of the technology but takes bridge deck and bridge deck apporachway inspections to a whole new level.

ColumnScan® inspects the columns of a complex bridge. Where currently a manu is lowered from the surface with oxygen and visually looks for problems, ColumnScan® provides a whole new level of quantitative data.. It enters the columns of large segmental structures, decends down with extending and reticulating arms, high definition cameras and infrared allow for a complete inspection of the columns.with definition never seen before.

Each one of our inspections includes a comprehensive professional services assessment and can be signed and sealed by us depending on the state and their requirement.

For more information contact Doug Thaler at 727-372-2900 ext.24 or email info@infrastructurepc.com

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