The built index registered a 6.9% increase in March 2025, exceeding February 2024 and showing slight improvement in the construction sector for the first quarter of the year.
items. The construction was one of the sectors most affected by the recoil of the level of employment in the large north. Agricultural activities also recorded descents in the October indicator.
The construction sector begins to show recovery signs after a complex 2024 due to the marked recession. He Construct index (IC)which measures the evolution of the volumes sold to the private sector of construction products, registered a rise in the 6.92% Monthly unstacted in March 2025. This increase positions the index 4% above the level reached in February 2024.
The accumulated of the first quarter of 2025 closed with a 1.6% increase compared to the same period of the previous year. This growth, although modest, reflects a positive trend in the construction sector, which faced significant challenges in recent years.
Sales of construction materials during February showed a slight improvement, which generates optimistic expectations among experts in the sector. “Sales of construction materials during the month of February allow to glimpse a slight improvement. We hope that this trend will continue and that the construction begins to grow”they expressed from Build.
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The construction index covers a wide range of products, including ceramic bricks, Portland cement, lime, long steels, aluminum carpentry, adhesives and pastins, waterproofing paintings, sanitary, boilers and homely and central heating, taps and systems for water and gas conduction, floors, ceramic coats and electrical and electronic materials. Among the companies that make up the Association are Loma Negra, FV High Technology and CEFAS Grapage – El Milagro, San Lorenzo Ceramics, among others.
He Construction activity surface index (ISAC) which published last Friday The National Institute of Statistics and Census (INDEC) showed a decrease of 1.3% year -on -year in January. This data is not comparable to the Construct indexsince it is corresponding to March 2025.
Source: Ambito
