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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

Germany’s plans to base its energy transition on a fleet of hydrogen-fuelled power plants may fall victim to the country’s growing economic malaise, leading to a continued reliance on coal,…

Construction has been completed on the redevelopment of a Berlin film studio into offices, designed by Dutch architect MVRDV and Germany’s Hirschmüller Schindele Architekten. The Berliner Union Film Ateliers, a…

German rail operator Deutsche Bahn (DB) has begun work on railways leading to the €3.5bn undersea Fehmarnbelt Fixed Link connecting Hamburg and Copenhagen. It will install 88km of track to…

Germany’s centre-right parties have called for a reversal of the country’s anti-nuclear policy. Leading members of the CDU/CSU alliance and the liberal FDP want to restart decommissioned reactors and build…

German logistics magnate Klaus-Michael Kühne is considering a purchase of Signa Real Estate’s half-finished Elbtower, German business newspaper Handelsblatt reports. A source told the paper that discussions on a possible…

Investors have scrapped plans to build a green hydrogen plant in northern Germany because of high construction costs, broadcaster NDR reports. Set to be built in Dithmarschen, Schleswig-Holstein, the plant…

US engineer Jacobs has been selected by ThyssenKrupp to manage the decarbonisation of Europe’s largest steel mill in Duisburg, western Germany. The project involves substituting coke blast furnaces with hydrogen-powered…

US pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly has announced plans to invest $2.5bn in a factory in western Germany. The plant, in the town of Alzey in the Rhineland-Palatinate, will meet growing…

Germany is printing its first publicly-funded multi-family house in the North Rhine-Westphalian city of Lünen. The three-storey building will have two apartments on each floor ranging in size from 61…