Penulis: Bernd Schuppener

Lt. Baudirektor a. D. Dr.-Ing. Bernd Schuppener was head of the geotechnical division of the Federal Waterways Engineering and Research Institute in Karlsruhe, Germany, until is retirement but still volunteers for various national and international standards committees regarding ground engineering. He is chair of the steering board “geotechnical and soil engineering”, chair of the standards committee “Soil – safety checks in soil engineering”, member of the standards committee “Investigation of soil and rock” and member of the European standards committee CEN/TC 250 / SC7 that created Eurocode EC 7 “Geotechnical design”.