Germany’s Hochtief and its fellow ACS subsidiary Sedgman, a mineral processing company, will be the engineering, procurement and construction management contractor for the €2bn “Lionheart” lithium extraction scheme in Germany.…

Google says it will spend €5.5bn between 2026 and 2029 in infrastructure and offices across Germany, creating an estimated 9,000 jobs a year. Plans include building a new data centre…

“Baubot”, a drilling robot from German multinational manufacturer, fischer, has secured a Guinness World Records title by drilling 3,717 holes in concrete in 24 hours. The certified record attempt over…

Austrian contractor Strabag’s environmental technology arm has been selected by German utilities company MVV to build the largest heat pump of its kind in the world. The large-scale heat pump…

Construction has begun on the 30-hectare Innovation Park Artificial Intelligence (IPAI) campus in Heilbronn, southwest Germany. The site will eventually host around 5,000 people working across science, business, and government,…

German contractor Züblin and technology firm Instatiq are testing the boundaries of 3D printing by printing the top floor of a four-storey apartment building on site in the small city…

Vinci Energies has signed an agreement to acquire German HVAC specialist Zimmer & Hälbig for an undisclosed sum. Founded in 1974, Zimmer & Hälbig generated revenue of €96m last year.…

Hochtief, a German subsidiary of ACS Group, has won a €172m contract from German state company Deutsche Bahn to modernise a 42km-long section of track running along the banks of…

German federal transport minister Patrick Schnieder last week committed €166bn over the next five years to tackle the backlog of dilapidated transport infrastructure in the country. That’s a 62% increase…

Luxembourg-based steel-maker ArcelorMittal has decided not to go ahead with plans to install electric arc furnaces at two of its German mills, citing concerns about the cost of electricity. The…

Danish designer Adept Architects has won an international competition to turn a former department store into a concert hall in the German city of Braunschweig. The 18,000-sq-m project will put…

German contractors looking for more infrastructure work may find it coming in an unexpected form: war bunkers. The president of the country’s Federal Agency for Civil Protection and Disaster Relief,…

The Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (SCMC) is to build its first European research, development and design centre near Munich, the Taipei Times reports. The company said the facility would improve…

Switzerland’s Implenia has won a €200m contract to build two rail tunnels under Frankfurt for German state rail infrastructure operator DB InfraGO. The route will run from a new S-Bahn…

Strabag Group’s German unit, Strabag AG, has reported a 39% increase in orders in the transportation sector as the country begins its overdue infrastructure renewal. Work won included the renovation…

German energy company EnBW has ordered one of Germany’s first hydrogen-ready gas turbine power plants at its generating site in Stuttgart-Münster. Now, the site generates heat and electricity from three…

Israeli tech firm RodRadar and Sitech Deutschland have joined forces to market a product that uses radar and AI technology embedded in excavation equipment to prevent cable and pipeline strikes…

Germany’s parliament the Bundestag yesterday voted 513-207 in favour of a €500bn emergency fund to tackle the country’s crumbling infrastructure, relieving builders and sending growth forecasts for Europe’s biggest economy…