Since the beginning of 2020, Dr.-Ing. Robert-Balthasar Wudtke has been announced as publicly appointed and sworn expert for earthworks and foundations by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry Erfurt.
The subject area "Earthworks and Foundation Engineering" includes, among others.the following sub-subjects:
- Subsoil investigation, subsoil examination and assessment
- Construction pits, building underpinning, grouted anchors
- Soil dynamics, vibration protection
- Soil mechanical testing
- Landfills, landfill constructions
- Sealing walls
- Earthworks in traffic route engineering
- Earthworks in hydraulic engineering, earth dams
- Earthquake hazards
- Underground pipelines, pipe jacking, sewer construction
- Geosynthetics
- Geotechnical measurements
- Foundations of high-rise buildings
- Groundwater issues including drainage, groundwater lowering as well as sealing and drainage in the foundation area
- Quay wall construction
- Combined pile and plate foundations
- Dredging
- Special civil engineering, jet grouting, injection processes
- Sheet piling
- Stability issues on embankments and slopes
- Deep foundations, pile foundations, pile walls, pile driving methods
