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Among the Member States for which data are available for February 2011, construction output rose in eight and fell in five, Eurostat date shows. The highest increases were registered in the United Kingdom (+8.2%), Portugal (+4.3%) and Germany (+3.4%), and the largest decreases in Slovenia (-7.9%) and Slovakia (-3.8%).

Building construction decreased by 0.9% in the euro area, but increased by 0.6% in the EU27, after +1.5% and +2.4% respectively in January. Civil engineering rose by 0.2% in the euro area and by 1.2% in the EU27, after +16.3% and +12.9% respectively in the previous month.

On yearly basis, among the Member States for which data are available for February 2011, construction output rose in six and fell in eight. The highest increases were registered in Germany (+56.3%), Poland (+21.3%) and the Netherlands (+15.4%), and the largest decreases in Spain (-31.3%), Slovenia (-20.0%) and Bulgaria (-13.6%).

Building construction increased by 3.6% in the euro area and by 3.4% in the EU27, after -2.6% and +0.8% respectively in January. Civil engineering rose by 0.4% in the euro area, but dropped by 1.1% in the EU27, after -12.8% and -9.9% respectively in the previous month.
 

Bulgaria ranked fourth among the EU members with the steepest monthly decrease in the construction sector in December, data by the bloc's statistics bureau Eurostat showed on February 16 2011.