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Explosive ordnance assessment in Neuss: from acquisition to construction
Are you considering buying a property in Neuss while its later development is still undecided? Existing explosive ordnance documents can assist preparation. However, an official aerial photograph analysis application in Neuss requires construction activities involving ground interventions. FONTANA-EOD supports review of existing documents and planning of commissioned services permissible in the specific case.
Describe the reason for the enquiry precisely.
Check investigated areas and limitations.
Compare position and depth with existing results.
Assess the construction project
Identify the reason for the enquiry clearly
For construction activities involving ground interventions in Neuss, the City of Neuss service portal describes the aerial photograph analysis application; pure property valuation must be distinguished from this. Bring the site plan, proposed intervention depths and existing results together for coordination. Our local project example is the borehole survey at the crossing structure and railway overbridge at Xantener Straße (BS-279). The downhole and deep-ground survey is matched to the specific construction task. The reference commission is not a general clearance of other construction areas in Neuss.
Project references
Selected project examples
Neuss – downhole magnetometry
Explosive ordnance survey – Neuss – renewal of the crossing structure over line 2534 and railway overbridge at Xantener Straße Neuss
Service period: 2026-10
Service areas:Downhole magnetometry / deep-ground survey
Project site
Connect the site with the specific construction task
Observe Neuss’s distinction between purchase and ground intervention
The service portal excludes pure property valuations and due diligence assessments as grounds for official aerial photograph analysis. Applications relating to construction activities pass through the local regulatory authority to the Düsseldorf explosive ordnance disposal service. The actual reason for your enquiry is therefore described precisely. Existing documents can nevertheless be technically interpreted within a specifically agreed scope.
The address, cadastral parcel and cadastral map are used to identify the property. The area intended for development is clearly marked. Existing reports are related to that property using their site plans; earlier property names are clarified where needed. If the enquiry concerns another city or municipality, its procedure is determined separately. The status of construction intentions remains identifiable alongside location information so that acquisition interest and a specific ground intervention can each be addressed appropriately. Further project locations are shown in the regional overview.
The overview of the Düsseldorf administrative district provides further local information for the regional context of your construction project.
Local context
When is official aerial photograph analysis possible?
Neuss application prerequisite for construction activities
According to Neuss’s service portal, official aerial photograph analysis can be requested only for construction activities involving ground interventions. No aerial photograph analyses are prepared for pure property valuations or due diligence assessments. Interest in purchasing alone is therefore insufficient for this application.
The Neuss City Archives’ city chronicle describes building damage from air raids in 1944 and destruction of the historic town hall on 31 December. For a property, such historical information is used with its actual spatial reference. Suitable aerial photographs, building records and earlier terrain plans are selected and assessed on technical grounds. They can help trace former development and subsequent changes. Technical investigation then follows the specific outstanding question and planned groundworks. A general chronicle entry supplies historical context; property-specific documents determine its significance for the project.
Interpret existing documents before a purchase decision
First compile the reports and appendices available. Check which areas and depths they address and which questions remain open. Documents may inform acquisition without answering every question about a later excavation.
Before acquisition, the provenance and scope of available documents are checked. Once construction intentions become specific, foundations, utilities, working volumes and support elements are added with their positions and depths. For former operational, storage, commercial or infrastructure sites, documented changes of use and alterations are considered. War damage, reconstruction, demolition, fill or excavation are included where records provide findings. A change of owner leaves the documented investigation scope unchanged. Existing applicable results remain usable; additional interventions and outstanding questions are investigated or coordinated separately.
Requirements
Clarify technical requirements and responsibilities within the project
Relate requirements to the specialist task
For the commissioned work, the applicable technical requirements, permits, competence and responsibilities are clarified. The actual scope of work is what matters. Tasks and interfaces are described for the project and checked against the required authorisations.
Link occupational safety to the construction sequence
The risk assessment, work areas and communication arrangements must suit the planned activities. Specialist explosive ordnance work is coordinated with the other construction activities. Site organisation, traffic safety and other technical assessments retain their own responsible parties. Joint coordination assigns the relevant specialist work and responsibilities to the affected construction sections.
Use technical findings correctly
A measurement anomaly first requires specialist assessment; its appearance alone does not identify it as explosive ordnance. If an object is genuinely suspected to be ordnance, the prescribed reporting procedures and the measures set by the responsible authorities apply. Investigation reports specify the work completed and its limitations, so that results are not extended to unexamined areas or later design changes.
The City of Neuss explains applications relating to construction activities. The North Rhine-Westphalia Ministry of the Interior describes state explosive ordnance disposal. The KampfmittelVO NRW establishes tasks and prerequisites for certain private activities.
The principles of clearance planning connect the task with subsequent work. The geophysics guidance in the BFR KMR supports technical method selection. The documentation requirements relate results to the areas actually addressed.
The BFR KMR describe specialist work on federal properties. Locally applicable requirements and responsibilities are determined separately for the project in Neuss.
The permit, qualifications and responsibilities for the specific activity are assessed under the Explosives Act and the First Ordinance to the Explosives Act. The risk assessment under Section 5 of the Occupational Safety and Health Act relates to the planned activities. The DGUV Information 201-027 addresses preventive investigation and clearance of conventional explosive ordnance and defines its scope. The references it explains to DGUV Regel 113-003 concern specific activities involving explosives; they are not applied indiscriminately to every construction investigation.
For private activities in North Rhine-Westphalia, the specific requirements of the exceptions under the KampfmittelVO and the official guidance must be observed. The private contract connects technical suitability with the scope provided for in law. The authority's state of knowledge and the permissions required for the activity are checked before an agreement.
Working together
Distinguish the tasks of client, designers and specialist contractor
Client and operator
The client describes the project and provides the available project records. The operator adds requirements for use, access and timing. A coordinating contact brings the parties together; individual tasks remain assigned to the named parties. Before commissioning, it is clearly recorded what information is missing, who will obtain it and what decision the result is intended to prepare.
Planning and construction management
The specialist designers describe areas, depths, construction methods and changes. Site management coordinates the planned sequence with the construction contractors and agreed specialist works. Results are assigned to the respective intervention. A technical plan change is communicated early enough for its effect on the survey task to be assessed before construction. Organisational construction stage boundaries remain distinguishable from technical survey boundaries.
Specialist company and competent bodies
The private explosive ordnance specialist carries out the agreed investigation and documentation work. Requirements and decisions of public authorities are addressed with the responsible bodies. The documents needed for a particular procedure depend on the location and project. The technical report describes the work carried out, including its documented area, depth and scope. Decisions reserved for public authorities are made by those authorities.
The City of Neuss’s Ordnungsamt is the local contact for explosive ordnance assessment relating to construction activities. It forwards the aerial photograph analysis application to the state explosive ordnance disposal service of the Düsseldorf district government. Where relevant indications exist, applications for area or suspected-point assessment also pass through this interface. Private specialist tasks are agreed with their specific permissible scope. Corresponding reports and official communications remain identifiable with their respective purposes. For a project outside the city, the responsible municipality is determined from the actual project address. Any need for ordnance recovery is coordinated with the permissible task and the competent authorities.
Investigation task
Which specialist task comes next?
First identify the findings available
Check the basis of a result and area it covers. Assessment of records and technical investigation answer different questions. Missing appendices are identified as missing information. Neither ordnance contamination nor the safety of a property is inferred from an incomplete file.
Assess historical documentsClarify the permissible next step
Local application prerequisites and the specific state of knowledge are considered. A freely awarded commission cannot replace necessary state processing. For possible private supplementary services, the task and NRW prerequisites are checked separately. A wish for a rapid acquisition decision does not establish a blanket investigation procedure.
Compare investigation methodsProject types
From available records to the specific construction task
State the status of construction intentions
Describe whether a specific design already exists or an acquisition decision is initially being prepared. Proposed use, area and depths may be established to different extents at this stage. Undecided information is treated as open. A rough concept does not provide a complete basis for investigating every later construction method.
Specialist services and investigation tasks
Collect original documents rather than isolated quotations
A short extract may omit important limitations and appendices. Obtain complete reports with provenance, dates and corresponding maps where possible. This makes the findings actually available identifiable. The term explosive ordnance document alone does not show whether historical assessment, an official communication or on-site investigation is meant.
Document findings and their limitationsCompare the later plans again
When the excavation and foundations are specified, compare them with earlier results. Additional area or depth may lie outside the documented scope. An early document review does not anticipate this later comparison. Record outstanding questions so that they can be addressed during the next planning phase.
Coordinate the sequence and tasksPreparation
Prepare the scope and commission together
Before commissioning, establish the reason for the enquiry, existing knowledge and task permissible for the specific Neuss project. Describe the intended decision and groundworks already planned separately.
Establish what needs to be known before commissioning the work
In your Neuss enquiry, describe whether existing documents need interpreting for acquisition or specific construction activities involving ground intervention are already planned. Local application prerequisites govern official aerial photograph analysis. Review of existing reports receives its own agreed scope. Once groundworks are established, position, depth and construction method are connected with available findings. This identifies the specialist task still needed: document assessment, investigation of an identified area or work on an assessed finding. Results documents needed are related to the actual reason for the enquiry.
Define the specialist taskCoordinate preparatory work with the investigation
For an agreed investigation, actual access and measurement conditions are clarified. Existing utility information, areas to keep clear and coordination with other trades belong in preparation. Preliminary works needed follow the method and site. Additional breaking up of surfaces or other ground interventions to provide measurement access are technically agreed with responsible participants and not undertaken on personal initiative. At the acquisition stage, record separately which existing findings are merely being reviewed and which new investigation is actually agreed and permissible.
Clarify preparatory work in the programmeAgree a clear scope and schedule
A commission to interpret existing reports has a different basis from a field investigation of a planned ground intervention. The agreed scope keeps this distinction identifiable. Partly accessible areas and outstanding prerequisites are identified from commissioning. Dates and effort follow actual access, documents and coordination needed; assessment and handover are included. Once construction intentions become specific or change, compare them with the existing investigation status. A change of owner alone does not alter that status.
Discuss the scope and scheduleTasks at the site
What can be clarified before purchase and before construction
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Existing reports
Obtain the complete report with its appendices where possible. A single email or map extract may omit important limitations. Check the investigation area, method and plan version to which the result relates.
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Proposed use
Record which aspects of the proposed use are already decided. While excavation depth and foundation type remain open, the investigations needed for them cannot be established conclusively. An early concept sketch does not replace this information.
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Specific ground intervention
As soon as groundworks are planned, describe their position, area and depth. Neuss requires, among other things, the project type and a cadastral map with a clearly marked area for the enquiry. Submit documents for the project actually proposed.
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Missing appendices and outstanding questions
List missing appendices, unresolved subareas and undocumented depths. These matters need further clarification. Missing documents prove neither explosive ordnance contamination nor the safety of a property.
Project documents
Documents that establish the next step
Pass acquisition documents on traceably
Give later designers the complete underlying documents as well as a summary. The provenance and limitations of each finding remain identifiable. An acquisition question may have a scope different from specific construction preparation. Documents are therefore read according to their actual purpose.
A document review can bring existing knowledge together in an organised way and clarify further technical questions. Differing property names, plan versions and incomplete appendices are also identified. If findings can relate only to a subarea, that spatial reference is retained. Documents with different purposes are managed alongside one another. The next planning phase can then identify which existing information is usable and which intervention still needs an appropriate basis.
Develop a reliable task description
Once ground interventions are established, describe their positions, areas and depths in full. Identify additional utilities or foundations outside the main excavation. Existing reports are related to these interventions. A general intended-use description does not replace a traceable account of the works actually planned.
For a specific construction project, planned interventions and available explosive ordnance documents are considered together. Neuss’s application prerequisites and any existing aerial photograph analysis status determine the further official route. On-site investigation requires clarification of accessibility, utility information, suitable methods and necessary preliminary works. Intended reports must show the area actually investigated, method and technical assessment. Following clearance work, the clearance record with its scope, results and remaining limitations is related to the areas actually treated and project-specific site plan. Limitations and outstanding work remain visible until the next decision in the construction sequence.
Construction sequence
Coordinate investigation and construction sections
Before an acquisition-related document review
Identify the specific decision and records available. Include complete reports and maps and mark information gaps. The agreed review records which findings can be derived. Its result relates to those records and the question described. Further planning adds the details needed for specific development.
At the transition to construction planning
Carry outstanding questions from the earlier review into the current planning status. Compare the developed intervention with existing result boundaries. Necessary official and technical steps are clarified using this specific task. The same property address does not replace this renewed comparison.
Method selection
Select methods according to the task and survey conditions
Historical records and aerial photographs
Historical aerial photograph analysis and other earlier records help establish the spatial context of grounds for suspicion. For existing documents on a property being considered for purchase, provenance, images used, information value and area boundaries are checked. The absence of a visible indication is not a technical investigation of today’s ground. Neuss’s application prerequisites remain decisive for official aerial photograph analysis. If specific construction activities are described, historical knowledge is connected with their ground volumes and other available results. Findings for the area previously considered do not confirm all later works.
Understand aerial photograph assessmentMagnetometric survey
Magnetic methods detect magnetic anomalies. Suitability for a specific later construction task is assessed using expected objects, ground conditions and the required investigation area. Fences, utilities and existing structures may influence assessment. An available measurement report is therefore interpreted by purpose, conditions and area actually addressed. Signal strength alone does not identify explosive ordnance. Investigation, assessment and any further clarification are connected with the described ground intervention. An intention to purchase alone establishes neither a method nor its scope.
Understand the scope of magnetometryElectromagnetic methods
Electromagnetic investigations may suit certain metallic target objects and site conditions. An investigation is justified for the findings required and specific ground volume, not inferred from instrument availability alone. Interfering installations and accessible measurement areas are considered. Existing results are checked using their locations and investigation conditions. Whether a supplementary method is needed follows from technical assessment. A report concerning a property being acquired is compared with the development actually planned; its mere existence does not describe an appropriate investigation task.
Understand electromagnetic surveyingGround-penetrating radar
Under suitable conditions, ground-penetrating radar can provide information on subsurface structures and reflections. A radar plan handed over during acquisition is checked by purpose, area covered and limitations of findings. Ground conditions, moisture and installations affect assessability. A reflection is not automatically explosive ordnance; an unremarkable representation does not confirm any arbitrary depth. Specialist interpretation is documented with the commission. An investigation for another purpose is not adopted unchecked as explosive ordnance evidence for an excavation or utility line specified only later.
GPR and limitationsDeep-ground and downhole surveys
For deeper interventions, it may be necessary to check whether investigation from the surface provides the findings needed or whether another approach is required. Specific positions, depths, borehole arrangement and existing utilities are needed for this. While later development remains open, this technical question likewise remains provisional. Provision of suitable investigation access is prepared on technical grounds. A standard grid or blanket depth figure does not replace planning. Results remain tied to the areas actually addressed and method performed.
Prepare deep interventionsSurvey during construction
If a necessary prior investigation cannot be carried out in full, assess whether a technically planned approach during construction is suitable. It connects investigation, assessment and communication of findings for specific construction works. Mere visual observation of excavation does not replace a necessary survey. Site management needs the relationship of specialist works, new findings and unresolved areas to the proposed sequence. An earlier acquisition-related document review does not replace this planning. The specialist task is agreed only with the ground intervention actually described and relevant prerequisites.
Agree the approach during constructionTechnical assessment
Which investigation may suit the construction project?
Aerial photograph analysis or on-site investigation
A historical aerial photograph analysis provides information different from an on-site technical investigation. Read the report to establish how the result was obtained. The general label explosive ordnance document does not establish what was actually assessed.
For each document, record provenance, date, task and corresponding appendices. An official communication about aerial photograph analysis is distinguished from a geophysical measurement report or clearance record. The site plan shows which area was actually addressed. Depth and investigation-level information are compared with the proposed intervention. If maps or results appendices are missing, request them from the previous document holder where possible. Until clarification, it remains identifiable which findings the available material substantiates and which information remains missing.
Applications through the regulatory authority
If aerial photograph analysis gives relevant indications, Neuss describes further applications for area or suspected-point assessments. These pass through the regulatory authority. A survey must therefore not be initiated solely because a purchase decision is approaching; the requirement and permissible procedure must be clarified.
At an early acquisition enquiry, the available design is identified as such. If excavation depth, foundation type or new utility alignment remains open, this information is passed on as planning tasks. Later execution needs comparison with the structural elements then established. Larger working volumes, additional chambers or changed support elements may affect ground volumes different from an earlier investigated design. Elevation also matters: an investigation from an earlier ground level is compared with today’s surface and planned excavation. The reference needed is clarified using the complete plans.
Limitations of private commissions
A clearance plan or investigation plan must describe the outstanding task. NRW rules apply to private services. A freely awarded commission cannot replace every official investigation step. Agree the permissible scope with the responsible authority.
Handover to a new owner or design team includes complete reports and maps. A brief overview identifies each document’s task, plan version and area addressed. Important limitations are already identifiable in the overview. Outstanding questions are connected with the affected structural element or subarea. Once the design becomes specific, planners can address these points directly. Identify those responsible for obtaining missing documents, official coordination and preparation of a permissible specialist service.
Next steps
Use existing results for construction planning
Initial contact and document review
At first contact, describe the upcoming decision and status of construction intentions. Existing reports, maps and official communications are compiled in full with provenance and dates. Review categorises them by task, investigated areas and limitations. Missing appendices or unresolved planning details are recorded and passed to the next project phase. Acquisition questions and information required for a specific ground intervention remain distinguishable.
Clarify historical information and methods
For planned construction involving ground interventions, necessary official aerial photograph analysis is initiated through the local regulatory authority under Neuss’s procedure. Where use or terrain information remains unresolved, supplementary records and historical images are researched and technically assessed. Findings are compared with the design’s position, area and depth. The suitable technical method is selected according to ground conditions, target objects, interference and accessibility. Official measures and permissible private tasks are assigned to their respective responsibilities.
Investigate and assess results
The developed intervention is compared with areas and depths investigated so far. The agreed permissible survey or technically suitable supplementary supervision is performed under its actual conditions. Data and observations are assessed and related to the areas addressed. Usable findings, anomalies and subareas with limited assessability are documented clearly. New findings or deviations from planned scope are considered in technical assessment and further coordination.
Document findings and prepare the subsequent decision
Reports are handed to subsequent designers with plans, methods, result limitations and outstanding tasks. Before execution, site management compares proposed works with this evidence and the current official status. Additional areas, different depths or changed structural elements are compared separately. Investigations and decisions still needed remain assigned to the relevant construction section. Applicable existing results continue to be used within their documented scope.
Documentation
What reviewing existing documents can provide
Compare existing findings and the new construction task
FONTANA-EOD reviews existing explosive ordnance documents within the agreed scope and documents their findings for the question described. The report identifies available underlying information, its spatial and technical relationship and outstanding details. Technical investigations and official steps needed are assigned as separate tasks. Property valuation remains an independent specialist task.
Project responsibilities
The BFR Kampfmittelräumung offer technical guidance for task clarification and documentation outside their direct federal scope. In North Rhine-Westphalia, local regulatory authorities, the state explosive ordnance disposal service and limitations on private activities under Section 3 of the KampfmittelVO remain particularly decisive.
Working approach
How FONTANA-EOD works
Document the agreed specialist service clearly
FONTANA-EOD relates the agreed service to the reason described and documents available. Interpretation of reports for acquisition and a specific technical investigation task are identified with their respective scopes. Accessible areas and results needed are agreed before fieldwork. Plan or site condition changes are checked before the affected works. The report documents the work actually performed and its limitations. Further planning can identify which findings exist and which question concerning later development remains open.
Discuss the investigation taskThe task before the equipment
Technical method selection needs a described investigation purpose and ground volume. If the initial task is only review of existing documents for acquisition, their scope of findings is interpreted. Once groundworks are specified, it can be justified which method can supply the missing knowledge. An available instrument or approach on a similar neighbouring site is not a sufficient selection basis on its own. The decision remains connected with the specific construction task.
Keep limitations visible
Inaccessible areas and those with limited assessability are identified with their actual boundaries. When reviewing an older report, such exceptions remain identifiable after an ownership change. A general property area figure does not replace them. For specific groundworks, designers and site management agree which areas remain to be addressed and when a suitable investigation is possible. A result for a subarea is not silently extended to the entire property being acquired.
Clarify changes before intervening in the ground
When initially open construction intentions become a specific design, position, depth and construction method are compared with existing results. Further changes receive the same technical comparison before the affected work. The response is related to the new plan version and incorporated into the sequence. An unchanged property name or completed purchase does not confirm correspondence between the earlier investigation scope and today’s proposed intervention.
Hand over the report and plan together
For handover, reports and corresponding plan appendices are provided in full with their spatial references. A brief overview may identify acquisition-related knowledge and outstanding construction planning questions. It does not replace the documented investigation scope. Even when the owner, site management or contractor changes, the technical basis and its limitations remain traceable. New plans are connected with these actual documents rather than deriving comprehensive findings for later development merely from passing on a report.
Understand the results
Use technical statements for the next decision
An early assessment has a particular information status
While construction method and intervention depth remain open, not every later investigation question can be answered. Missing details are documented and supplemented in further planning. The early review’s result remains limited to the available underlying information. It is not used as an unrestricted finding for unknown later designs.
Understand investigation reports and their limitationsMissing records are not a property finding
If a report is unavailable, first clarify its possible whereabouts and actual content. The gap proves neither ordnance contamination nor safety. For a specific construction project, the findings scope required is established separately. A blanket conclusion from the quantity of records would not be a sufficient basis.
Understand the service scopeDesign and findings
Documents for the next construction decision
Historical evidence and the current design
Aerial photograph interpretation is related to the actual groundworks. Its purpose and geographical scope remain distinct from a technical investigation of the ground as it is today.
Understand aerial photograph assessmentSpecialist reports for site management
The findings, their locations and limitations are handed over together. This makes clear to those carrying out the work which area has been investigated and which task remains outstanding.
Assess investigation reports
Further technical topics
Further technical information for your project
Determine the specialist service from the planned groundworks
Historical assessment, technical investigation and subsequent work answer different questions. In your enquiry, identify the planned groundworks and the information needed to prepare them.
Compare servicesCoordinate the project sequence with everyone involved
Preparation connects the commission, site work and handover of findings. Changes to the project can then be incorporated into technical coordination in good time.
Process and documentationQuestions from planning
Questions about acquisition review and construction preparation in Neuss
Can I request official aerial photograph analysis for a property purchase?
According to Neuss’s procedural description, this is not possible for pure property valuation or due diligence assessment. The application requires construction activities involving ground interventions. Therefore describe precisely whether groundworks are proposed and which. Agree the assessment needed well before planned interventions so that applications, preparation and investigation can be considered in the construction sequence.
Does a missing document establish that a property is uncontaminated?
No. If a report is missing, it initially remains unclear whether an investigation took place and which results exist. Clarify whether further documents are available and what still needs investigating for the planned construction project. Missing information proves neither contamination nor safety.
Can an older investigation be reused later?
This depends on the areas and depths investigated, the report’s findings and works now planned. Compare the complete report with current plans. The same address does not permit blanket extension to additional areas or depths. Method suitability is assessed using ground conditions, target objects, depth and interference. Areas with limited assessability are documented with their actual scope.
Can a private commission replace the official procedure?
No. NRW responsibilities also apply to a private commission. Services that may be commissioned depend on the specific task and legal and official requirements. Necessary official steps remain. Historical groundwork is followed by agreed method selection, investigation or suitable supervision, technical assessment and documentation. The subsequent decision relates results to the next actual intervention.
What should be done if a suspicious object is found on the property?
Stop the affected works and do not touch or move the object. Move away and keep others away. Notify the police immediately on 110 or the local regulatory authority and follow their instructions. Do not send an email for an immediate find; Neuss’s service page requires direct notification by telephone.
What belongs in an early acquisition enquiry?
The upcoming decision, existing documents and actual status of later construction intentions. Areas, depths or construction methods still open are identified explicitly. Complete reports and maps with provenance, dates and missing appendices enable identification of available knowledge.
Which factors determine effort and costs?
For document review, report scope, completeness and work needed to identify their areas determine effort. Further investigations additionally involve methods, area, depth, interference and preliminary works. The city distinguishes state cost responsibility from preparatory, accompanying and additional measures and the special case of former federal properties. Specific allocation is clarified with the respective case. Later designers receive all existing reports and maps with their original findings and limitations.
When is an earlier document review considered again?
As soon as construction plans become specific or change. The current intervention is then compared with documented result boundaries and outstanding questions. Subsequent designers receive complete reports and maps with their original findings and limitations.
Project enquiry
Before purchase or construction planning
Explain the reason and construction intentions
Describe the acquisition decision, intended use and ground interventions already established separately. Add the project address, cadastral parcel, timescale and decision sought. Structural elements not yet specified remain identifiable as open planning details. The sector overview explains typical interventions and the documents they require.
Include original documents
Send complete reports and maps with provenance, dates and known missing appendices. Show each document’s status and mark the area already investigated against the current design.
Methods and technology
Methods and technologyPrepare the project sequence
Prepare the project sequence
Have your project assessed
Whether historical aerial photograph analysis, explosive ordnance surveying, surface surveying using GPR, magnetometry or TDEM, deep-ground surveys, downhole surveys, excavation supervision, area clearance or ordnance recovery is needed depends on the location, ground disturbance, depth, ground and existing documents. An early ordnance assessment provides clarity for tendering, programming, occupational safety and construction.
FONTANA-EOD combines its Section 7 SprengG licence, specialists holding Section 20 SprengG certificates of competence, suitable survey and clearance methods, and traceable documentation. Send the site plan, depth of ground disturbance, construction phase and existing documents for an initial technical assessment.
