Delays in permitting and tunnel immersion mean the Fehmarnbelt Tunnel will now open in two phases – first the road tunnels, then the rail ones. Germany’s Transport Ministry announced in…

A team of Swiss materials giant Holcim, Swedish startup Paebbl and German contractor Goldbeck has poured the first industrial floor slab made with carbon dioxide. The slab poured for an…

This week saw the sinking of the first concrete section of the 18-km-long Fehmarnbelt tunnel linking Germany and Denmark, which claims to be the world’s longest immersed combined road and…

The European Investment Bank (EIB) has signed over €500m in unsecured credit to German municipal housing company HOWOGE to build 3,200 residential units in Berlin by 2029. Half of the…

Construction has begun on United Heat, a renewable cross-border district heating project connecting the cities of Görlitz in Germany and Zgorzelec in Poland. A mix of renewable systems, predominantly heat…

Skyports Drone Services is conducting aerial drone surveillance on a Hochtief bridge construction project north of Cologne, Germany from its Remote Operation Centre (ROC) in Madrid, Spain. The “drone-in-a-box” system…

Berlin-headquartered company Ecoworks has won a €23m contract to provide a green renovation of 192 apartments in 12 buildings in Hagen, Northrhein Westfalia to reduce their energy demand by 36%.…

The German-Norwegian Chamber of Commerce and non-profit business network Norwegian Offshore Wind have teamed up to boost developments in the rapidly expanding North Sea market. The agreement arrives on the…

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…