As foundation surveyors and specialist planners for geotechnical engineering with a focus on inner-city areas, we are confronted with historical building foundations in many projects. At this year's Christian Veder Colloquium in Graz, our colleagues Josef Patron, Bert Schädlich and Fabian Remspecher presented the Pergamon Museum in Berlin as an example of the challenges that arise from the conflicting priorities of careful treatment of the historic building fabric, the high demands of contemporary building use and the imponderables of the building ground.
We would like to thank the organisers from Graz University of Technology for the opportunity to present our work, our colleagues for the exciting discussions and look forward to next year's colloquium!
