Explosive Ordnance Clearance IKEA Area, Ulm. Construction Time: 2003 – 2006

A new commercial site has been created on a 17-hectare former freight station, where IKEA, Praktiker and Decathlon, among others, have settled. As project managers and representatives of the landowner Eisenbahn-Immobilienmanagement omniCon controlled as part of a plan approval procedure according to the Railways Act, the planning and construction excavation, dismantling, restructuring, ordnance clearance and disposal and development and track laying work and obtained the exemption of railway operation purposes. The ordnance site clearance is one of the largest measures, which had taken place in Germany until then. About 250,000 m³ of soil had to be recorded and screened in special plants to first to remove small munitions (grenades, shells and cartridges, detonators, incendiary sticks and ammunition parts). After that bombs and detonator caps could be geomagnetic detected and exposed. There were more than 15,000 kg of ammunition and 9 bombs.. Four times the federal roads had frozen and the residents are evacuated.