KYIV. July 24 (Interfax-Ukraine) – The volume of construction work in Ukraine in June 2017 increased by 31.9% compared with June 2016, while the growth in May 2017 from May 2016 was 24.5%.
According to the State Statistics Service, the data are given without taking into account the temporarily occupied territory of Crimea and Sevastopol and part of the ATO zone. Data on Donetsk and Luhansk regions could be reviewed.
According to the agency, the volume of construction works in June 2017 from May 2017 increased by 13.4%, whereas in May 2017 from April 2017 it grew by 11%.
According to the report, the growth in construction work in June 2017 compared to June 2016 was observed in all areas of construction. The largest increase in the figure was recorded in construction of engineering facilities – by 49.7%.
According to the service, in May 2017 from April 2017 the volume of construction work in construction of residential buildings declined by 6.1%, non-residential buildings by 18.6%, and in construction of engineering facilities grew by 17.1%.
In January-June 2017 on January-June 2016 a decline in construction works was recorded in three regions: Luhansk (by 17.1%, to UAH 225.1 million), Mykolaiv (11.5%, UAH 762.4 million) and Chernivtsi (8.4%, UAH 380.7 million).
The largest growth of construction works in January-June 2017 year-over-year was seen in Kirovohrad (1.8-fold, to UAH 415.1 million) and Zhytomyr (1.8-fold, to UAH 521.5 million) regions.
