Press New orders in main construction industry in December 2017: +16.8% seasonally adjusted on the previous month

Press release No. 060 of 23 February 2018

WIESBADEN – The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports that price-adjusted new orders in the main construction industry in December 2017 increased a seasonally and working-day adjusted 16.8% on November 2017.

In building construction and civil and underground engineering, in establishments of enterprises with 20 or more persons, new orders increased by 24.3% 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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