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…

Fears are growing for the health of Germany’s property sector after work stopped on one of the country’s tallest buildings. Designed by Christoph Felger of David Chipperfield Architects, the 254m…

A team made up of Ireland’s Heneghan Peng Architects, Germany’s Ralph Appelbaum Associates and Scottish artist Susan Philipsz has won a competition to design an expansion of the Kaiser Wilhelm…

Four workers were killed on Monday and another was left with life-threatening injuries after scaffolding collapsed at a major building site in the German city of Hamburg. The incident occurred…

Three men working in the German construction industry have been jailed for a total of 14 years and one received a suspended sentence for defrauding the state out of tax…

The German Ministry for Digital and Transport has awarded Vinci Concessions three contracts to install 828 electric-vehicle charging points at 106 stations around Berlin, Hamburg and Leipzig.

Dutch architect UNStudio has designed a 10,000 sq m, mixed-use project for Düsseldorf’s northern city centre. The “New Heart” development will contain two towers, the taller of which will be…

Hochtief has announced the placing of the last main girder for the reconstruction of the A1 Leverkusen Bridge over the River Rhine. The 1km-long bridge, first opened in 1965, suffered…

The board of Taiwanese chipmaker TSMC this week voted to invest €3.5bn in a factory in the east German city of Dresden. It said this investment would probably rise to…

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)…