New data released Monday indicates a complex picture for Germany’s construction sector in June 2025. While overall new orders received by main construction companies experienced a seasonally and calendar-adjusted decrease of 2.6 percent compared to May 2025, a notable divergence exists between building types.
Orders for building construction (high construction) increased significantly, rising by 12.2 percent. Conversely, civil engineering (low construction) orders saw a decline of 13.1 percent.
Compared to June 2024, real, calendar-adjusted orders rose by 2.9 percent (nominal: +4.2 percent). Building construction contributed to this increase with a gain of 8.0 percent, while civil engineering experienced a modest decrease of 1.4 percent.
During the first half of 2025, total orders rose by 7.3 percent in real terms and 9.4 percent nominally. Both building construction and civil engineering saw gains, with the former increasing by 5.6 percent and the latter by 8.7 percent compared to the first half of 2024.
However, real revenue in the main construction sector was 0.5 percent lower in June 2025 than in the same month of the previous year. Nominal revenue increased by 2.1 percent, reaching 10.1 billion euros.
Employment in the main construction sector saw a slight increase of 1.0 percent in June 2025 compared to the previous year.
For the first six months of 2025, revenues increased by 2.2 percent in real terms and 4.6 percent nominally compared to the same period last year. After a slight decline in employment in 2024 (-0.4 percent), the number of people employed in the sector grew by 0.9 percent in the first half of 2025.