Hamburg Port Authority (HPA) in Germany has been able to start predictive – rather than reactive – maintenance on the city’s Köhlbrand Bridge thanks to a digital twin of the…

The government of Germany is planning to spend €2.1bn on renovations to its Berlin estate, broadcaster Deutsche Welle reports. The aim is to create additional space in the Chancellery, the…

Dutch architect MVRDV has won a competition to design the Innovation Park Artificial Intelligence (Ipai) campus in Heilbronn, south west Germany. It will have a business space, laboratories, a start-up…

JET H2 Energy has announced plans to open 10 hydrogen filling stations in Germany and Denmark, news site Hydrogen Central reports. The filling stations will supply cars as well as…

German utility RWE is requesting planning permission to build the country’s first hydrogen cavern storage facility in a salt mine.

German chancellor Olaf Scholz has said his government plans to accelerate the construction of wind turbines in Germany, broadcaster Deutsche Welle reports. Speaking to the weekly newspaper Bild am Sonntag,…

German grid operator TenneT has hired UK-headquartered Turner & Townsend to project manage part of the SuedOstLink, an underground high-voltage direct-current transmission line that will carry electricity generated from renewables…

US chipmaker Wolfspeed yesterday announced plans to invest $3bn in a semiconductor plant in the western German state of Saarland. The factory, which Wolfspeed says will be the largest and…

Gas transmission companies Gascade and Fluxys have asked the European Commission to grant special status to their project to build a hydrogen pipeline under the North Sea. They say the…

Netherlands-based consultant Arcadis has been hired to plan and manage construction of an electric-vehicle battery cell gigafactory on a brownfield site in Kaiserslautern, Germany. Set to be one of Europe’s…

More than half of German construction companies expect a decline in output this year and only 15% think their businesses will expand, according to a survey by the German Economic…

Norwegian energy company Equinor has teamed up with German utility RWE to develop a supply chain for hydrogen power stations. The aim is to replace Germany’s coal-fired power stations with…

Swiss contractor Implenia will lead a consortium building a steel composite motorway bridge over the Kiel Canal in northern Germany. DEGES, the state agency in charge of Germany’s road network,…

Germany finished building its first liquid natural gas (LNG) import terminal in 200 days and the first tanker is expected in January, German broadcaster NDR reports. Fast-tracked construction of the…

A multinational consortium made up of subsidiaries of Spanish contractor ACS has secured a contract to make the 18km-long Fehmarnbelt tunnel linking Germany and Denmark carbon neutral. The team includes…

German auto-maker Volkswagen has given the green light to a €2bn electric vehicle (EV) plant at its home base of Wolfsburg-Warmenau in Lower Saxony.