Compared to August, order intake rose by 1.7% in building construction and by 13.2% in civil engineering, as Destatis reports. In the less volatile three-month comparison, between July and September, order intake adjusted for calendar and seasonal effects grew by 4% compared to the previous three-month period (building construction: +3.5%; civil engineering: +4.5%).
Compared to September 2024, real-term order intake of the German construction industry (adjusted for calendar effects) increased by 20.7%. This increase is partly due to large orders in September 2025 and is attributable to the fact that the figure for the same month of 2024 was relatively low in a three-year comparison.
In building construction, the number of new orders increased by 18.9% in September. In civil engineering, new orders were up by 22.4% compared to the same month last year. In nominal terms (not adjusted for inflation), new orders were 25.8% higher than last year.
In September, real-term sales generated by the German construction industry grew by 5.1% year on year. In nominal terms, an increase of 7.4% to €10.9 billion was recorded. In the first nine months of 2025, sales increased by 1.5% year on year in real terms and by 4.0% in nominal terms.
As for the total number of employees in the construction industry, a year-on-year increase of 1.5% was recorded in September 2025.
