diff --git a/theodolite-benchmarks/beam-commons/build.gradle b/theodolite-benchmarks/beam-commons/build.gradle
index a809f6bc4b97d8d62b807243eddecda8a5de5032..a15b388a33ce53b0f1b8f2f0567996917b9f18d1 100644
--- a/theodolite-benchmarks/beam-commons/build.gradle
+++ b/theodolite-benchmarks/beam-commons/build.gradle
@@ -13,21 +13,19 @@ repositories {
 }
 
 dependencies {
-  // These dependencies are used internally, and not exposed to consumers on their own compile classpath.
   implementation('org.industrial-devops:titan-ccp-common:0.1.0-SNAPSHOT') { changing = true }
   implementation('org.industrial-devops:titan-ccp-common-kafka:0.1.0-SNAPSHOT') { changing = true }
-  implementation 'com.google.code.gson:gson:2.8.2'
-  implementation 'com.google.guava:guava:24.1-jre'
 
+  implementation group: 'org.apache.beam', name: 'beam-sdks-java-core', version: '2.22.0'
   implementation('org.apache.beam:beam-sdks-java-io-kafka:2.22.0'){
     exclude group: 'org.apache.kafka', module: 'kafka-clients'
   }
+  implementation ('io.confluent:kafka-streams-avro-serde:5.3.2') 
+  
   implementation group: 'org.slf4j', name: 'slf4j-simple', version: '1.7.30'
-  implementation group: 'org.apache.beam', name: 'beam-sdks-java-core', version: '2.22.0'
-
+  
   runtimeOnly 'org.slf4j:slf4j-api:1.7.32'
   runtimeOnly 'org.slf4j:slf4j-jdk14:1.7.32'
 
-  // Use JUnit test framework
   testImplementation 'junit:junit:4.12'
 }
diff --git a/theodolite-benchmarks/uc4-beam/build.gradle b/theodolite-benchmarks/uc4-beam/build.gradle
index 502e94fa737fb2ae1bab861407b27575cd8766ca..3e9d917cc3586e5df2c5645f1d2cbcf03e3993e4 100644
--- a/theodolite-benchmarks/uc4-beam/build.gradle
+++ b/theodolite-benchmarks/uc4-beam/build.gradle
@@ -2,4 +2,6 @@ plugins {
   id 'theodolite.beam'
 }
 
-
+dependencies {
+  implementation ('io.confluent:kafka-streams-avro-serde:5.3.2') 
+}