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…

German builders have welcomed plans announced yesterday by the likely new German governing coalition to set up a €500bn special fund to address the country’s failing infrastructure. It came after…

The Bavarian town of Geretsried will test a novel way of extracting energy from the earth, the AP news agency reports. The plan is to borrow oil and gas drilling…

German national rail operator Deutsche Bahn (DB) has awarded a long-term volume framework contract worth €2.8bn to upgrade the network’s digital control and safety systems to a consortium of Siemens…

German construction consultant Drees & Sommer has acquired US project and cost consultant VVA in a bid to expand in North America. Stuttgart-registered Drees & Sommer employs some 6,500 people…

The US National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) and the state of Bavaria will build a radio telescope on top of Germany’s highest mountain. Their Wetterstein Millimetre Telescope will go up…

Hochtief and timber engineer Rubner Holzbau have won a €190m project to build an all-timber technology park and student centre at Bavaria’s Rosenheim Technical University. Hochtief’s share of the work…

The leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party says she will tear down wind turbines if she becomes chancellor, Bloomberg reports.  Alice Weidel called them “windmills of shame”…