German construction orders jump 23% in August
Major contracts drove the sharpest month-on-month rise in German main construction orders since the series began in 1991. Orders were also 17.3% higher than a year earlier in real terms.
Price-adjusted orders in Germany’s main construction industry rose by 23.0% in August 2026 from July after seasonal and calendar adjustment. Several large contracts helped produce the strongest monthly increase recorded since the data series started in 1991.
Statistisches Bundesamt (Destatis) reported the figures on Friday, October 23. Building construction orders advanced 12.4% from the previous month, while civil engineering recorded a 31.6% increase.
Across the three months from June through August, adjusted orders were 7.6% above the preceding three-month period. Compared with August 2025, real calendar-adjusted orders climbed 17.3%, with civil engineering up 36.4% and building construction down 1.7%.
Industry turnover increased 4.9% year on year in real terms. Unadjusted nominal revenue rose 10.1% to €10.9 billion, while employment at covered businesses grew 1.5% to about 548,000 people.