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…

Germany will have to spend €120bn if it is to make its public buildings carbon neutral by 2045, according to a report commissioned by the German Energy Agency (DENA). The…

Munich’s city government has approved a masterplan by Dutch architect KCAP and Denmark’s SLA for the regeneration of a 4.7ha former industrial site in Munich. Sugar Valley, which was once…

The European Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (ESMC) has broken ground on its €10bn chip fabrication plant in Dresden. The plant will get €5bn in state aid from Germany and €3.5bn from…

Lithuania this week started building a 170-hectare military base to house some 4,000 combat-ready German troops about 20km from the border with Belarus, Russia’s close ally. The move comes in…

Austrian contractor Strabag is to replace the 900m-long Uttrichshausen viaduct, part of the A7 motorway in the central German state of Hessen. The company has not specified an exact contract…

A temporary stadium for 80,000 people will be built in Munich for 10 concerts by British singer Adele next month, the StadiumDB website reports.  She is performing the concerts throughout…

Vinci subsidiary Cobra IS has won a €74m contract for piping and mechanical works on a major hydrogen-powered steel plant Thyssenkrupp is building in Duisburg, Germany. Cobra IS was picked…

A consortium of Vinci and Siemens has won a €2.9bn contract from German utility 50Hertz to design, build and install two converter stations to bring wind power from the North…

German rail operator Deutsche Bahn (DB) has shut down one of the country’s main rail corridors for a planned, €1.3bn “fundamental overhaul” to improve trains’ punctuality and capacity. The unprecedented…

UK architects Caruso St John have won a competition for the renovation of Germany’s Kunsthalle Bielefeld, the only European museum designed by modernist architect Philip Johnson, completed in 1968. Work…

Munich architect Henn has been chosen to design a training campus for the Berlin Fire Department on the site of the disused Tegel Airport. Firefighters, rescuers, and emergency medical staff…

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…

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.…

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…