Organisations

The Bundesfachabteilung (BFA) Spezialtiefbau in the Hauptverband der Deutschen Bauindustrie is a union of the leading German special civil engineering companies working both nationally and internationally.

The BFA Spezialtiefbau

• Represents, as non-profit organisation, the interests of its members to public and private employers, quality control associations, associations, political organisations, technical legislators and lawmakers.
• Supports its members and the national industrial construction associations in issues of specific technical construction contract law, certification and qualification, technical regulators and training, advanced and further training in special civil engineering.
• Is the German representation of the European Federation of Foundation Contractors EFFC.
• Is the responsible body for the Dialog Tiefbau, a joint initiative with leading German foundation experts.

European Federation of Foundation Contractors EFFC

The EFFC represents the interests of special civil engineering companies of all member states to European institutions and other international organisations of special civil engineering, for example, the American Deep Foundation Institute DFI. The objective of the EFFC is the encouragement of dialogue and the mutual support in issues of construction contract law and qualification, operational safety, health and environment protection and structural engineering.

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The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Geotechnik e.V. (DGGT) was founded in 1950 as the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Erd- und Grundbau e.V. (DGEG). It is dedicated to the science and practice of all issues connected with the use of soil and rock as foundations and building material. The main objective of the DGGT is the promotion of geotechnology in research, teachings, commerce and management.

The association was founded on 20th June 2005 and is entered in the Bonn Register of Associations (Vereinsregister). It has set itself the task of introducing and further developing a pre-qualification system for building companies for the allocation of public building contracts in Germany.

Prequalification is the upstream, contract-independent inspection of the proof of suitability of the requirements defined in § 8 VOB/A. As a result, any company interested in public contracts can prove its suitability to the public contractors at considerably reduced costs in the future.