New orders signed during the month fell by 42.7% in the same month a year earlier. They have fallen year-on-year every month since May. New orders in the buildings segment were down by 8.5% and new civil engineering orders fell by 53.7% from a year earlier.
Although the output of the buildings segment declined by a year-on-year 6.3%, output of the civil engineering segment was up by 23%.
However, in both a seasonally- and calendar-adjusted month-on-month comparison, construction sector output fell by 1.1%, though output of the buildings segment rose by 7% and civil engineering output rose by 1%.
KSH noted that civil engineering performance was boosted by railway renovation and road construction works as well as utilities developments, similar to previous months.
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