Press New orders in main construction industry in May 2018: +4.6% seasonally adjusted on the previous month

Press release No. 273 of 25 July 2018

WIESBADEN – The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports that price-adjusted new orders in the main construction industry in May 2018 increased a seasonally and working-day adjusted 4.6% on March 2018.

In building construction and civil and underground engineering, in establishments of enterprises with 20 or more persons, new orders increased by 10.0% in nominal terms compared with the corresponding month of the previous year.

Basic data and long time series are available in table New orders in the main construction industry (44111-0009) in the GENESIS-Online database.

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