Volume of construction work in August inches up 1.6 pct year-on-year

The volume of works on buildings was 4.7 percent up year-on-year, while the volume of work on other types of structures was 2.7 percent down.

Over the first eight months of this year, the volume of construction work was 3.9 percent up from the same period in 2021, with the volume of construction work on buildings going up 5.1 percent and the volume of work on other types of structures by 2.1 percent.