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”…

The first 525km of Germany’s hydrogen grid will be built this year, the Zeit Online website reports. Some 507km will be converted from existing gas pipelines, and the rest will…

Industry representatives in Germany have warned that prolonged budget uncertainty brought about by the collapse of the country’s government is putting vital transport infrastructure at risk. “We are extremely worried,”…

Germany’s state-owned development bank KfW has approved a €24bn loan to support the construction of the country’s core hydrogen network. This will involve converting gas pipelines to carry hydrogen, creating…

Belgian dredging company Deme has won a contract worth €52m to help build an offshore wind terminal in the Port of Cuxhaven in Germany. Expected to cost €300m in total,…

Germany has begun work on a wind turbine that will be the tallest structure in the country after the TV tower in Berlin. The 365m-high turbine is under construction in…

Germany’s Federal Highway Research Institute (BASt) has estimated that Germany could add up to 48GW of photovoltaic panels to its road network.

The government of Germany has put forward a bill to boost housing output by streamlining regulations. The Building Type E Act aims to lower the cost of building to ameliorate…

The German government is giving chemicals giant BASF €310m to build the world’s largest industrial heat pump. The Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action is funding the project at…

French drugmaker Sanofi has confirmed its plan to spend €1.3bn on an insulin factory at its site near Frankfurt, website BioProcess International reports. The 36,000-sq-m plant will replace a previous…

As Germany adjusts to the removal of Russian gas from its energy mix, its government is now eyeing geothermal energy as a clean, reliable way of heating buildings. A 2022…