https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Germany in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed 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? https://www.thelocal.de/20201216/video-could-3d-printed-homes-solve-germanys-housing-shortage Wed, 16 Dec 2020 14:41:57 +0100 video-could-3d-printed-homes-solve-germanys-housing-shortage Taller than the Cologne Cathedral, the 483-million-euro High Moselle Bridge is entering its final stages of construction. https://www.thelocal.de/20180820/construction-of-mega-bridge-nears-the-end Mon, 20 Aug 2018 17:30:44 +0200 construction-of-mega-bridge-nears-the-end 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. https://www.thelocal.de/20180608/frankfurt-in-talks-to-build-new-residential-districts Fri, 08 Jun 2018 14:04:17 +0200 frankfurt-in-talks-to-build-new-residential-districts 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. https://www.thelocal.de/20180122/berlin-to-push-ahead-with-plan-to-give-alexanderplatz-an-american-makeover Mon, 22 Jan 2018 16:00:26 +0100 berlin-to-push-ahead-with-plan-to-give-alexanderplatz-an-american-makeover 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. https://www.thelocal.de/20171011/record-breaking-new-cable-car-for-tallest-mountain-in-germany-near-completion Wed, 11 Oct 2017 14:09:03 +0200 record-breaking-new-cable-car-for-tallest-mountain-in-germany-near-completion 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. https://www.thelocal.de/20170330/two-german-firms-interested-in-building-trumps-border-wall Thu, 30 Mar 2017 12:57:36 +0200 two-german-firms-interested-in-building-trumps-border-wall 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. https://www.thelocal.de/20160526/plan-to-open-berlin-airport-in-2017-finally-dead Thu, 26 May 2016 13:04:41 +0200 plan-to-open-berlin-airport-in-2017-finally-dead 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. https://www.thelocal.de/20150819/germany-building-homes-in-wrong-places-experts Wed, 19 Aug 2015 14:37:52 +0200 germany-building-homes-in-wrong-places-experts A west German cat has been freed after surviving for four weeks while walled in under a bathtub. https://www.thelocal.de/20150409/cat-freed-after-spending-27-days-walled-in Thu, 09 Apr 2015 11:05:56 +0200 cat-freed-after-spending-27-days-walled-in A Cologne resident was pinned to his bed after a 40-metre construction crane toppled onto his home early on Friday. https://www.thelocal.de/20140829/cologne-man-escapes-clutches-of-giant-crane Fri, 29 Aug 2014 13:49:00 +0200 cologne-man-escapes-clutches-of-giant-crane 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. https://www.thelocal.de/20140226/highest-hotel-in-germany-planned-for-berlin-neukoelln Wed, 26 Feb 2014 16:54:00 +0100 highest-hotel-in-germany-planned-for-berlin-neukoelln 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. https://www.thelocal.de/20131209/leipzig-train-tunnel-to-finally-open Mon, 09 Dec 2013 16:06:00 +0100 leipzig-train-tunnel-to-finally-open 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. https://www.thelocal.de/20130926/52109 Thu, 26 Sep 2013 13:17:00 +0200 52109 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. https://www.thelocal.de/20130625/50507 Tue, 25 Jun 2013 18:07:00 +0200 50507 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. https://www.thelocal.de/20121023/45731 Tue, 23 Oct 2012 14:49:00 +0200 45731 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. https://www.thelocal.de/20120524/42727 Thu, 24 May 2012 10:55:00 +0200 42727 The biggest German construction group, Hochtief, posted on Wednesday modest second quarter results owing to problems with its Australian unit Leighton. https://www.thelocal.de/20110817/37031 Wed, 17 Aug 2011 15:02:00 +0200 37031 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. https://www.thelocal.de/20110512/34977 Thu, 12 May 2011 14:55:00 +0200 34977 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. https://www.thelocal.de/20110416/34431 Sat, 16 Apr 2011 11:44:00 +0200 34431 Some 700,000 German construction workers can expect bigger paycheques after their unions and employers reached a new wage agreement in Potsdam on Thursday. https://www.thelocal.de/20110414/34389 Thu, 14 Apr 2011 11:00:00 +0200 34389