BUNDESAMT FÜR 
SEESCHIFFFAHRT 
UND 
HYDROGRAPHIE 
Standard Ground Investigations 
Minimum requirements for geotechnical surveys and 
investigations into offshore wind energy structures, 
offshore stations and power cables 
Second update from 5. 2. 2014 
The following persons took part in the second update: 
Priv.-Doz. Dr.-lng. Kerstin Lesny 
(Head of the working group) 
Dr. Roland Atzler 
Dr. Rolf Balthes 
Dr. Alexander Bartholoma 
Prof.-lng. Horst Bellmer 
Dr.-lng. Magnus Geduhn 
Dipl.-lng. Jana Gehrmann-Vorbau 
Dr. Albert Geiger 
Prof. Dr.-lng. Harry Harder 
Dr.-lng. Michael Hauschild 
Dr.-lng. Yifeng Hu 
Dipl.-lng. Oliver Jost 
Dipl.-lng. Mussie Kidane 
Dr.-lng. Fabian Kirsch 
Dipl.-lng. Sascha Lindemann 
Dipl.-lng. Markwart Ulrich 
Dr. Klaus Michels 
Dr. Rolf Muckelmann 
Dr. Gregor Overbeck 
Dr. Lutz Reinhardt 
Dipl.-Geol. Rainer Riecke 
DirProf Dr.-lng. Werner Rücker 
Prof. Dr.-lng. Stavros Savidis 
Dr. Klaus Schwarzer 
Prof. Dr. Volker Spiess 
Dr. Wolfgang Thießen 
Dipl.-lng. Michael Wagner 
Dr.-lng. Stefan Weihrauch 
The English version was improved by comments from Kerstin Lesny, Hendrik Sturm, Roselyn Carroll 
and Mussie Kidane.