GPRS’ Jamie Althauser Wins Concrete Scanning Competition Hosted by Proceq

During Proceq Day North America 2026, GPRS Chief Services Officer Jamie Althauser beat 20 competitors to win the concrete scanning competition.

Three people stand in a parking area near a building and a parked truck. Two of them are holding a large paper sheet with blue tape on the corners and hand drawn markings made with a marker representing concrete scan results. One person is standing in front of the paper and the other two people holding small black and blue plaque. — Jamie Althauser won the concrete scanning competition because his scan results were the most accurate and completed in the least amount of time.

Even though Althauser has been out of the field for over a decade, he oversees and participates in training new GPRS Project Managers, teaching them how to locate subsurface concrete reinforcements and underground utilities with 99.8% accuracy.

He trusted the practices he preaches every day during this competition.

“There are all kinds of just little things that I have taken the time to think about, refine and train everybody on how to do this really accurately and quickly at the same time. So that's one of the main reasons I'm so happy to have won, because of my ability to have refined that process and represent how we do things at GPRS as a whole, because we've trained everybody how to do it the same way.”

He was one of only two participants that found all the embedded features within the 15-minute time limit. Since he finished 20 seconds faster than the other finisher, Althauser was declared the winner.

He couldn’t help but reminisce on his time in the field and how much he loves the craft of concrete scanning and utility locating. “I loved being in the field, solving puzzles, and solving real problems for clients. It’s a very rewarding job.”

You can read the full press release, here.