Germany's first 3D-printed house is currently being completed and the world's first 3D-printed apartment block is also underway in Bavaria. It’s faster and cheaper to print buildings, so could it spell the start of a tech revolution in the country’s building industry and property market?
Plans to build two new residential districts near the A5 Autobahn in the Frankfurt area are finally making progress after Frankfurt’s mayor Peter Feldmann (SPD) formally backed the large-scale project.
For the past 25 years, protests, rescheduling and hesitant investors have delayed construction on one of the most popular tourist destinations in the German capital - Alexanderplatz. But that is set to change with a major rebuilding project up and running again.
Operation of the new cable car which will take visitors up the 2,962 metre-high Zugspitze, Germany’s highest peak, is set to start in about ten weeks’ time. But not everyone is looking forward to it.
The Mexico border wall was one of the most controversial elements of Donald Trump's presidential campaign, but that hasn't stopped two German companies from registering an interest in building it.
Travellers are set to wait still longer for Berlin's much-delayed new airport to open, as city media report that a provisional opening date in late 2017 is no longer achievable.
Too few new flats are being built in Germany's largest cities even as oversupply looms in rural areas, experts at the Institute for the German Economy (IW) in Cologne warned on Wednesday.
Developers revealed plans on Tuesday to build Germany's highest hotel rising 175 metres above the city in the Neukölln area of Berlin. It will boast 814 rooms on 46 floors.
Leipzig's late and over-budget train tunnel will finally open next weekend, much to the delight of those who have been waiting since 2005 for the digging to be over.
German toilet-maker Grohe received the largest ever investment from a Japanese company in the country on Thursday. The firm is now almost entirely owned by the Japanese after the €3 billion deal.
This year's winter hit the German construction industry hard. And while the end of the building freeze is now in sight, a mountain of backlogged orders mean only slow recovery for the industry.
A leading German construction company that underpaid its workers by nearly €75,000 has been banned from operating in Switzerland for two years, a Swiss court said on Tuesday in the first ruling of its kind.
A new law restricts the right of tenants to block renovation work on their homes by refusing to pay a share – if that work is designed to reduce energy consumption.
The biggest German construction group, Hochtief, posted on Wednesday modest second quarter results owing to problems with its Australian unit Leighton.
Germany’s biggest construction company Hochtief was effectively taken over by Spanish firm ACS on Thursday after the last opponent on the supervisory board bowed to the greater power of ACS and said he would not stand for re-election.
An Italian court on Friday sentenced German steelmaker ThyssenKrupp's director-general in Italy to 16.5 years in jail for the deaths of seven workers after a fire at its Turin plant in December 2007.
Some 700,000 German construction workers can expect bigger paycheques after their unions and employers reached a new wage agreement in Potsdam on Thursday.
German construction group Hochtief on Monday cut its 2011 forecasts sharply after a profit warning from Australian unit Leighton, and said that its chief executive was stepping down. Shares in Hochtief plunged 9.2 percent in Frankfurt.
Shares in the biggest German construction group, Hochtief, plunged in early trading Thursday after it warned of a negative impact on 2011 results from problems at its Australian unit, Leighton.
Germany's construction companies and unions fear an economic catastrophe should a new European Union directive come into force. The new rule will allow international companies to import their own workers from different countries.
Spain's biggest public works group ACS said on Tuesday it had succeeded in snapping up more than 30 percent of shares in German rival Hochtief, a key step towards taking overall control.
The Association for the German Construction Industry (HDB) says it expects overall turnover to shrink by one percent in 2011, just as it did in 2010. But individual branches of the industry will also prosper.
