Thursday, 23 November 2017
Ordtek Search for Second World War bombs in the Thames
Ahead of the new ferry terminal construction at Woolwich, Ordtek are working with Briggs Marine to look for unexploded ordnance (UXO) in the River Thames.
Thursday, 23 November 2017
Ahead of the new ferry terminal construction at Woolwich, Ordtek are working with Briggs Marine to look for unexploded ordnance (UXO) in the River Thames.
Friday, 20 October 2017
German transmission system operator TenneT has awarded UK company Ordtek Limited with a contract to provide consultancy and QA/QC services during unexploded ordnance (UXO) survey, identification and disposal works on the Merkur Project.
Wednesday, 9 August 2017
The £625m Nemo Link project to connect the energy systems of the UK and Belgium has unearthed more than a dozen bombs and mines dating back a century to when the continent was racked by war.
Wednesday, 1 February 2017
Three wartime mines were found on a Danish offshore wind farm site thanks to help from a UK-based expert company using its pioneering Mine Map.
The potentially dangerous relics were found using data gathered by Ordtek, whose charts are used by offshore wind developers to find and remove unexploded ordnance (UXO) – mainly mines and bombs – from the seabed.
Monday, 5 December 2016
Ordtek are to present in partnership with The Port of London Hydrographic service (PLA) and SAND Geophysics on the use of 3D chirp technology for UXO detection and the limitations of traditional survey techniqies in some environments, such as the River Thames.
Wednesday, 30 November 2016
Working with Vattenfall from the desk based study stages, Ordtek were able to develop a risk mitigation strategy using the historic research undertaken for the Horns Rev 3 Offshore Wind Farm site to enable to safe management of the UXO risk for the project.
“We already knew the minefield existed because it was recorded on nautical charts but in order to obtain more precise information we found the mine [field] coordinates in German logs from 1944. Using old German nautical charts converted into modern-day GPS coordinates” Arne Rød Lauridsen, Senior Geophysicist, Vattenfall.