German contractor Hochtief has won a contract to redevelop and maintain a public administration office and training complex in Berlin over 30 years. The public–private partnership will involve a mix…

The German government is considering whether it can force a former transport minister to pay at least part of the €243m bill for a failed plan to introduce highway tolls,…

Peri 3D Construction is set to create Europe’s first 3D printed football clubhouse in Nordkirchen, Germany. It aims to print the two-story, 330-sq-m building for the third division SC Capelle…

German utility Lausitz Energie Bergbau (LEAG) has teamed up with US energy storage company ESS Tech to plan the installation of a 50MW battery in Germany as part of a…

US tech company Intel is to receive $11bn in subsidies for its planned chip fabrication facility in the Germany city of Magdeburg, the Bloomberg news agency reports. Intel originally estimated…

Danish architect Henning Larsen has won a competition to design “Ku’lturhof”, described as a neighbourhood centre for west Berlin that will contain a community courtyard and renovations to nine buildings.…

The government of Germany has agreed to fund the construction of a €260m supercomputing centre in Bavaria, tech website EE News reports. The project at the Friedrich Alexander University (FAU)…

The German Ministry for Economic Affairs (BMWK) has erected a 300m-high onshore wind power testing mast to prepare for a new generation of wind turbines. The mast was erected in…

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…