Course
Foundation Engineering
Grundbau
Status: 10.10.2025
Lecturer
Participants
- Mandatory course for students of bachelor program Civil and Environmental Engineering in 4th semester
Lecture
- Shallow foundations
- Pile foundations
- Subsoil improvement
- Retaining walls (Stützmauern)
- Retaining walls (Stützwände)
- Soil anchors
- Underpinngings
- Groundwater management
Class room exercise
- Lecturer in summer term 2026: Lennart Sekulic
- We recommend working through the tasks from previous examinations in parallel with the tutorial lectures, see Stud.IP.
Group exercise (Tutorium)
The content of the lecture and exercise will be explored in greater depth. Six 30-minute tests will be written, which will be prepared for in the previous sessions. Participation is voluntary.
Some dates announced in the course catalogue for ‘Exercise: Foundation Engineering’ are not valid. The actual dates can be found in Stud.IP.
Bonus points from the tests are only valid for the first attempt at the examination!
Performance record
Written exam in summer or winter term; duration: 90 Min
Teaching material
- Grabe J. (2004): Bodenmechanik und Grundbau, Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für Geotechnik und Baubetrieb der TU Hamburg-Harburg, Heft 3 (download)
- Appendix to the exercise “Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering”: tables and diagrams for geotechnical engineering (download)
- Further teaching materials can be found on Stud.IP. Please register there to gain access to the documents
Literature recommendations
- Grundbau-Taschenbuch, Beuth-Verlag, Berlin
- Spundwandhandbuch der ThyssenKrupp GfT Bautechnik (PDF-Dokument)