diff --git a/theodolite-benchmarks/build.gradle b/theodolite-benchmarks/build.gradle
index 3d980c33304e6ad1ba449f8d34eb24897b90426c..cd2ca985538ff84ec6b21aa5dccea86940d8fc6d 100644
--- a/theodolite-benchmarks/build.gradle
+++ b/theodolite-benchmarks/build.gradle
@@ -1,16 +1,3 @@
-// Inherited to all subprojects
-// Make shadow plugin available, used for flink
-buildscript {
-  repositories {
-    maven {
-      url "https://plugins.gradle.org/m2/"
-    }
-  }
-  dependencies {
-    classpath "com.github.jengelman.gradle.plugins:shadow:6.0.0"
-  }
-}
-
 // Plugins
 allprojects {
   apply plugin: 'eclipse'
diff --git a/theodolite-benchmarks/buildSrc/build.gradle b/theodolite-benchmarks/buildSrc/build.gradle
index f6acd3b4ca164100087eaaf00623d8897d7f280f..4c099de32dc97ed3aa0417e8fff1f06e2a50dfd8 100644
--- a/theodolite-benchmarks/buildSrc/build.gradle
+++ b/theodolite-benchmarks/buildSrc/build.gradle
@@ -1,3 +1,14 @@
+buildscript {
+  repositories {
+    maven {
+      url "https://plugins.gradle.org/m2/"
+    }
+  }
+  dependencies {
+    classpath "com.github.jengelman.gradle.plugins:shadow:6.0.0"
+  }
+}
+
 // to discover the precompiled script plugins
 plugins {
     id 'groovy-gradle-plugin'
@@ -9,4 +20,5 @@ repositories {
 
 dependencies {
     implementation 'gradle.plugin.com.github.spotbugs.snom:spotbugs-gradle-plugin:4.6.0'
+    implementation 'com.github.jengelman.gradle.plugins:shadow:6.0.0'
 }