MALA Easy Locator

The Easy Locator is the right instrument for slab-on-grade and pavement-style investigations where the survey area extends over square metres rather than across a single structural element. On the Mainmark Slab Stabilisation Scanning project (Little Street, Fortitude Valley), TRSC used MALA Easy Locator transects to map void zones beneath the slab in advance of polyurethane resin injection, complementing the Hilti PS 1000 reinforcement survey of the slab itself. The Easy Locator's depth penetration in saturated soils is typically 1-3 m at 450 MHz with sufficient resolution to discriminate conduits and small voids, and 3-5 m at 250 MHz for coarser sub-grade surveys. Operational notes from field experience: the trolley-mounted form factor requires reasonably level surfaces — broken pavement, vegetation or bedding-step features introduce signal artefacts; soil moisture is the dominant variable in penetration depth and TRSC reports survey conditions explicitly; utility-detection results are interpreted as indicative location only and are confirmed via potholing before any cutting or coring. The Easy Locator pairs well with TRSC's other GPR instruments — the Hilti PS 1000 covers reinforcement and shallow concrete mapping, while the Easy Locator covers the larger-scale podium, slab-on-grade and external pavement scans where the structural element is the substrate beneath the surface. On combined-typology projects (e.g. heritage hotel sites with mixed driveway, podium and tilt-panel construction), TRSC field teams routinely deploy the Easy Locator alongside the PS 1000 in a single mobilisation so that all GPR scope is captured during one site attendance, with the resulting datasets exported to MALA Vision and PROFIS Ferroscan respectively for synthesis into a single project deliverable.