Building foundations specialists undertake difficult and demanding work in the field of specialised civil engineering. They use probes to investigate the ground conditions, reinforce excavations using shotcrete, anchors or nails, build foundations with piles or use injection material to solidify the building surface.

• Completed compulsory education
• Ability to work in a team, independent
• Enjoyment in working outdoors and handling equipment and machinery
• Skilled craftsmanship
• Technical understanding
• Safety consciousness
• Reliable and responsible

• Duration of apprenticeship: three years
• School: Theoretical lessons at the vocational college for traffic infrastructure engineers. Specialised training begins in the third year of the apprenticeship. Inter-cantonal introductory courses supplement the practical activities and vocational college lessons.
• Federal Vocational Baccalaureate: if a very good level of academic performance is achieved, it is also possible to complete the upper-secondary commercial school.

• Building foundations specialist with qualification in a further specialist area of the “traffic infrastructure construction” professional field
• Foreman (practical and foreman college)
• Construction foreman (examination for the Federal Diploma of Higher Education)
• Qualified foreman (technician PET College)
• Qualified master builder, qualified construction manager (examinations for the Advanced Federal Diploma of Higher Education)
• Qualified civil engineer BSc FH