Unexploded Ordnance

Specialist experience - from the ground up

Risk Assessment • Mitigation • Detection • Clearance • Consulting • Training

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Could UXO pose a risk?

Site investigation needed? No further action warranted?

See a preliminary assessment and analysis within 24 hours

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What’s buried here?

How many devices? Where and how deep?

Understand your site with a detailed geophysical survey

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Who can manage clearance?

UXO specialist support on-site.

Trust ex-military operatives to make groundworks safe

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Unexploded Ordnance
Specialist experience - from the ground up
Could UXO pose a risk?
Site investigation needed? No further action warranted?
What’s buried here?
How many devices? Where and how deep?
Who can manage clearance?
UXO specialist support on-site.

UXO – Assessed, Mitigated, Managed.

Welcome to 1st Line Defence. We are the UK’s market leaders in the provision of unexploded ordnance (UXO) risk mitigation services. We assist clients by providing bespoke solutions to any potential risk posed across the UK, and around the world, from unexploded bombs and munitions related to current and former military land use and aerial bombing.

Our team has provided UXO advice and services to some of the UK’s most iconic construction projects including the O2, Wembley Stadium, HS2 and Thames Tideway. We’re here to help!

1st Line Defence are ‘Covid Secure’ compliant, visit our Covid-19 Response page to find out what changes we have made to adapt and be ‘Covid Secure’.

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