News Work starts in Germany on €1bn onshore LNG terminal Germany’s Hanseatic Energy Hub (HEH) has begun work on its €1bn Stade terminal for liquefied natural gas (LNG) near Hamburg. The groundbreaking ceremony took place on Friday, attended by around…
News EU approves Germany’s €3bn hydrogen network plan The European Commission has approved German plans to invest €3bn in a national hydrogen distribution system. The Hydrogen Core Network (HCN) will supply Germany and connect with a European market.…
News Berlin just broke ground on Siemens’ 188-acre “district of the future” German chancellor Olaf Scholz and Berlin mayor Kai Wegner attended the groundbreaking on Tuesday of “Siemensstadt Square”, a 188-acre business and residential district in a historic brownfield area of Berlin’s…
News Stuttgart’s controversial rail project to take another year and cost €12bn A controversial project to reorganise the rail network around Stuttgart has been delayed by more than a year, reports Der Spiegel. The Stuttgart 21 scheme involves building a main underground…
News Nearly a million German construction workers to strike Some 930,000 German construction workers are to go on their first nationwide strike since 2002 after employers rejected a deal on Friday. The formula had been suggested by independent mediators…
News Germany gets 3D printed warehouse A German team has built a warehouse in Stuttgart with load-bearing concrete walls using a continuous 3D-printing process. The structure, which the team describe as a “world first”, was created…
News Worker on Fehmarnbelt Tunnel dies after site accident A worker on the Fehmarnbelt Tunnel between Germany and Denmark has died after being struck on the head by an excavator shovel on Monday afternoon. The 41-year-old Polish worker was…
Companies Eiffage to buy Eqos to tap Germany’s buoyant energy market French engineer Eiffage has agreed to buy German infrastructure company Eqos, which specialises in energy networks, telecoms and rail.
News Germany is turning its big open coal mines into lakes German utility RWE has chosen a Turkish steelmaker to supply pipe sections for its planned pipeline from the River Rhine to turn opencast coal mines in the Ruhr into giant…
Markets ‘It can’t go on like this’: Germany’s housebuilding crisis deepens Building permits for apartments in Germany fell by 18% in February compared with February 2023, official statistics reveal. The Federal Statistical Office said the figure was 35% less than in…
News Strabag team wins €532m contract to replace canal lock in Germany A team made up of subsidiaries of Austrian contractor Strabag has been awarded a €532m contract to replace a lock on a major canal in Germany. Ed Züblin, Züblin Spezialtiefbau…
News Germany’s largest landlord announces €6.8bn loss The largest landlord in Germany reported a loss of €6.8bn last week after writing down the value of its property portfolio. Shares in Vonovia fell more than 7% in the…
News Implenia and Johann Bunte win €130m German motorway contract A joint venture between Swiss contractor Implenia and Germany’s Johann Bunte Bauunternehmen will build a ring-road to alleviating traffic congestion in Bremen, northwest Germany. The 1.7km bypass will be located…
News European Investment Bank awards €200m to Germany for refugee housing The European Investment Bank (EIB) is to loan the west German state of North Rhine-Westphalia €200m to finance housing for refugees. The money will be channelled through a refugee programme…
News MVRDV designs Berlin office and residential campus Construction has begun on a 61,200 sq m mixed-use development in the eastern Friedrichshain district of Berlin, designed by Dutch architect MVRDV. The LXK Office and Residential Campus is formed…
News Mammoet slides rail bridge into place on the River Oder Dutch heavy lift specialist Mammoet has published details of its project to replace the Küstrin rail bridge over the River Oder on the German-Polish border. The project team decided to…
News Rheinmetall breaks ground on €300m artillery shell factory Düsseldorf-based arms manufacturer Rheinmetall has broken ground on an ammunition factory near the village of Unterluess in Lower Saxony. The ceremony was attended by Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Mette Frederiksen,…
News Heidelberg data centre is ‘Europe’s biggest printed building’ Peri 3D Construction has handed over a printed data centre in Heidelberg, Germany. It calls the 600-sq-m building, named “Wavehouse”, Europe’s biggest printed building so far. Yesterday, it handed the…