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The volume of construction works decreased 7.5% January through October 2017, compared with the same period last year, mainly due to the repairs and maintenance services sector (-23.1%) and capital repairs sector (-22.7%), according to data released by the National Institute of Statistics (INS) on Thursday.
By construction objects, engineering constructions declined 25.1% and non-residential buildings 14.5%. Residential buildings increased 74.9%.
Overall, the volume of construction works decreased by 8.4%, as series adjusted depending to the number of business days and seasonality. By structural elements, decreases were recorded in the capital repairs and maintenance and repairs services sectors by 21.8% each. New construction works increased 2.0%.
By construction objects, the engineering constructions dropped 25.7% and non-residential buildings went down 13.8%. Residential buildings as construction works volume went up 69.9%.
In October 2017, compared with October 2016, the volume of construction works dropped 13.4% as gross series. By structural elements there were recorded decreases in the capital repairs sector, by 38.9%, and maintenance and repairs services sector, by 31.5%. New construction works rose by 2.9%.
By construction objects, non-residential buildings went down 26.8% and engineering constructions went down 19.7%. Increases were recorded in the residential buildings sector, by 29.2%.
The overall volume of construction works decreased 10.3%, as adjusted series depending on the number of business days and seasonality. By structural elements decreases were recorded in the capital repairs sector, by 40.5% and in maintenance and repairs services sector, by 30.8%. New construction works increased 3.3%. By construction objects, non-residential buildings fell 27.1% and engineering constructions dropped 22.4%. Increases were recorded in the residential buildings sector, by 29.8%.
Overall volume of construction works grew 6.2% , as series adjusted depending on the number of business days and seasonality, in October 2017 compared with the previous month, an increase registered for all structural elements - maintenance and repair works sector, by 19.3%, capital repairs sector, by 18, 2% and new construction works, by 0.6%.
By constructions object, residential buildings and engineering constructions increased 10.8% each. Non-residential buildings declined 5.9%.
The overall volume of construction works decreased 1.3%, as series adjusted depending on the number of business days and seasonality, which was also seen in capital repairs showing a decrease of 2.5%. Maintenace and repairs services sector and new construction works increased 5.6% and 0.9% respectively.
By construction objects, the volume of construction works decreased 3.7% in the non-residential buildings sector. Residential buildings and engineering constructions increased 0.7% each.
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