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NDT Integrity & Inspection Services

Concrete Inspection & Core Sampling

Deterioration of concrete structures can become a real challenge for the owners and cost significant amounts in remediation and repair if not identified and dealt with early. Abseil Access provides comprehensive inspection of concrete structures and detailed reports to enable our clients to manage their assets or structure’s integrity proactively.

With the group’s inspection pedigree, access services, and maintenance capabilities, Abseil Access can provide safe, high-quality, cost-effective structural concrete inspection solutions across various assets such as bridges, tunnels, civil infrastructure, and hydroelectric power plants.

Abseil Access team performing a concrete inspection.
Our services include:
  • Project Planning & Management
  • Specialist & Rope Access Services
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Inspection
  • Concrete Inspection and Testing
  • Concrete Core Sampling
  • Bridge Structural Inspections
  • Damn and Spillway Concrete Inspection
  • Post Event Inspection
  • Dust Samples for Carbonation Analysis

Coating & Corrosion Inspection

Coatings comprise a complex mixture of raw materials applied to various substrates to protect from the elements and other environmental factors that break down the substrate’s integrity, causing corrosion and degradation.

The Abseil Access coating inspection and maintenance services help ensure the continued protection of your asset and enable remediation campaigns to prolong the life of your asset to save cost and improve safety.

Abseil Access technician performing an integrity inspection on bridge.
Some of our coating inspection and complimentary services include:

Height Safety System Inspection

Investigations by the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment into falls while working at height show that more than 50 per cent of falls are from less than three meters, and approximately 70 per cent are from ladders and roofs. The cost of these falls is estimated to be $24 million a year on average.

Abseil Access provides inspection, servicing and certification of fall protection solutions and height safety equipment, including fall arrest systems, static lines, roof guardrails, access ladders, roof walkway systems, walkway systems and grating to ensure the highest standards in the protection of our customer’s staff and contractors.

Height safety insepction.
Our height safety system inspection services include:
  • Rope Access and Specialist Access
  • Area Inspections & Consultancy
  • Fall Protection System Inspection & Certification
  • Eyebolt Installation and Testing
  • Static Line Inspection
  • Fall Arrest Equipment Inspection
  • Access System Inspection (Ladders & Guardrails)
  • Non Destructive Testing (NDT)

Non-Destructive Testing (NDT)

Safety, reliability, environmental requirements, and regulations all mean that companies across most sectors are responsible for maintaining the integrity of their equipment.

Abseil Access and our sister company Vertech NZ specialise in delivering a wide array of conventional NDT methods, from planning campaigns, advising clients on NDT methods, and providing recommendations & solutions to ensure code compliance to international and NZ Standards.

DPI NDT.
Our NDT services include:
  • Ultrasonic Inspection (UT)
  • Magnetic Particle Inspection (MPI)
  • Dye Penetrant Inspection (DPI)
  • Eddy Current Inspection (ECI)
  • Corrosion Mapping (C-Scan)
  • Time of Flight Diffraction (TOFD)
  • Phased Array Inspection (PA)
  • Pulsed Eddy Current (PEC)
  • Positive Material Identification (PMI)
  • Rope Access NDT Services

Remote Digital Visual Inspection

RDVI is the use and application of Remote Digital Visual Inspection systems to inspect equipment without needing Confined Space Entry (CSE) or working at height. RDVI methods are ideal for in-service inspections, conditional assessments, process efficiency assessments, and the removal or retrieval of debris & foreign objects in various systems.

Our sister company, Vertech NZ, is the leading provider of RDVI services nationally, providing the latest generation of Camera systems, Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and crawlers.

RDVI inspection services.
Some of our groups RDVI services include:
  • Operational Planning & Review
  • Specialised Site Execution
  • Foreign Object Search & Retrieval (FOSAR)
  • Conditional Monitoring
  • QA/QC Inspection
  • Coating and Corrosion Surveys
  • Concrete Inspection
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Inspection
  • Confined Space Structural Inspections