Among the divisions of construction, production volume increased by 12.5% in the construction of buildings and decreased by 12.4% in civil engineering. Production in specialized construction activities, having the largest weight in construction, expanded by 14.8%.
The volume of new contracts concluded lessened by 1.3%. Within it the volume of contracts for the construction of buildings increased by 5%, and that for civil engineering decreased by 9%, year-on-year.
The volume of the end-of-May stock of contracts at construction enterprises was 6% higher than in the same period of the previous year, within this the volume of contracts was up by 2.5% for the construction of buildings and grew by 9.3% for civil engineering works.
Based on seasonally and working day adjusted indices construction output was 3.8% lower than in April.
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