January 2008

LRQA Article

BACTEC, established in 1991 to provide risk mitigation services for unexploded ordnance and landmine clearance, supports construction projects and worldwide explosive ordnance clearance initiatives.

The company works globally across a network of international offices and has completed projects in over 40 different countries. Clients include governments, non-government organizations, multi-national companies and local authorities, as well as building contractors, engineers and property developers.

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December 2007

BACTEC Wins UN’s Only Lebanon Ordnance Clearance Contract

UK-based Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) specialist BACTEC International has been awarded the UN’s only contract for ordnance clearance in Lebanon in 2008.

The company beat a number of international rivals to secure the contract from the United Nations Office of Project Services (UNOPS) in competitive tender. BACTEC has had an almost continuous presence in Lebanon since 2001, providing EOD, mine clearance and Battle Area Clearance (BAC) teams to clear bombs, missiles, sub-munitions and cluster bomb strikes as well as booby traps and land mines.

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November 2007

What lies beneath - Article published in Contract Journal

Between 10% and 20% of all the bombs dropped on the UK in World War II failed to detonate on impact – and far too many are still buried in the ground. How do you ensure your site is safe? Justin Stanton asked disposal specialist BACTEC.

If you’re working on a brownfield site in the South East, make sure your client has carried out a threat assessment. That’s the advice from Guy Lucas MBE, managing director of explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) specialist BACTEC International. The firm dealt with more than 8,000 items of unexploded ordnance (UXO) last year, and while by no means the majority presented a danger to construction life and limb, as Lucas points out these devices were designed to kill… And if there’s a chance they can still fulfil their original mission, then that’s a chance neither a contractor nor a client can afford to take.

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Thursday 12th July 2007

The Ticking Brownfield Timebomb:
BACTEC survey exposes flaws in non-intrusive magnetometry to detect buried ordnance

The detection of potential unexploded ordnance (UXO) is critical to the safe development of some sites in many parts of the UK. Intrusive and non-intrusive surveys are not capable of detecting explosives but are used to detect buried objects that may be casings of potential UXO and warrant further investigation. Yet Clearance Certificates or risk reduction reports issued by some UK Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) contractors may be meaningless, having failed to assess and recognize the limitations of their survey equipment. EOD specialist BACTEC International explains why and calls on the industry to abandon the use of non-intrusive surveys on brownfield sites when it is clear that a distinction cannot be made between made ground with ferrous contamination and a buried unexploded bomb (UXB), and that the survey cannot penetrate or filter out the contamination to provide accurate survey results to identify deeper UXBs.

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