01.14.2014

The construction materials market, which accounts for about one third of the construction sector, stood at some EUR3.2 billion last year, about the same as in 2012. more

01.13.2014

Romanian construction works fell 4.8% in November 2013 from a month earlier, due to declining activity in new buildings, the statistics institute INS said Monday. more

01.07.2014

The Romanian company in charge of roads and highways (CNADNR) plans to start in 2014 the building works for almost 400 km of new highways, with costs estimated at some EUR5.8 billion, according to a more

12.18.2013

Bucharest-based builder Delta ACM 93 of businessman Florea Diaconu has won two public housing contracts worth EUR70 million together to build 2,750 homes in Tebessa and El Bayadh, Algeria. more

12.13.2013

The difficulties affecting the Romanian economy and the construction sector made an impact on the plasterboard business, as well, which could see a 7% to 8% decline this year, according to Rigips more

12.11.2013

Besides the bitter taste, which many companies in the construction business felt this year, 2013 will go down in history as the year of a number of major projects delivered on the local market, which more

12.10.2013

Laurentiu Lupusor, general manager of construction materials producer Baumit Romania, says the reduction of public investments in 2013 affected the construction industry, but also brought more

12.09.2013

Romanian construction works rose 4% in October from a month earlier, due to stronger activity in most sectors, the statistics institute INS said Monday. more

12.09.2013

The construction equipment market has this year fallen to 20% of what it used to be during 2007-2008, according to Business Construct magazine. more

12.04.2013

The construction sector estimated at EUR9 billion to EUR10 billion a year employs 350,000 people or 8% of the total employees in Romania but is unable to find a balance after the reduction of public more

11.28.2013

Romanian housing permits fell 13% to 3,258 units in October, from 3,746 units a month earlier, the country’s statistics institute INS said Thursday. more

11.20.2013

Romania’s roads authority CNADNR on Wednesday signed a RON151 million contract, net of VAT, with Italian builder Collini Lavori for the construction of the Targu Jiu ring road. more

11.19.2013

Saint-Gobain Construction Products, owned by French group Saint-Gobain, estimates this year's sales will reach the level in 2012 and will also stagnate in 2014. more

11.19.2013

Construction companies have to ”reset” the construction market and take the present as a reference point, not the 2007-2008 period, when there was an almost “surreal euphoria,” believes Liviu more

11.15.2013

Cement price dropped 3.2% in 2008-2013 and producers are now selling it for 430 lei (EUR96) per ton on average, according to a ZF analysis based on market and National Statistics Institute data. more

11.08.2013

Romanian construction works fell 6.9% in September from a month earlier, due to declining activity in all sectors, the statistics institute INS said Friday. more

11.07.2013

The ten major highway construction sites in Romania advanced by an average 3.3% from September 1 until October 1, according to ZF calculations based on data sent by the country’s public roads more

11.04.2013

The lack of new investment in industrial projects could not be offset by small residential projects, which use small roofing of wall profiles, therefore companies in the metal profile sector do not more

10.28.2013

Romanian housing permits fell 2.3% to 3,746 units in September, from 3,833 units a month earlier, the country’s statistics institute INS said Monday. more

10.22.2013

Romania’s national roads authority CNADNR has signed the contracts to build the second and third sections of the Lugoj-Deva highway, which had been awarded in May. more

10.21.2013

Germany, the third largest foreign investor in Romania’ economy, with more than EUR6 billion pumped locally over the past twenty years, neither brought any of its major banks to Romania nor built a more

10.18.2013

No new highway construction site has been inaugurated since the beginning of the year, while auctions for new projects are postponed. Chances are slim for work on a new highway to start before the end more

10.16.2013

The opening of the Promenada mall in northern Bucharest scheduled for Thursday marks the completion of a EUR300 million investment in the Floreasca City development, one of the largest in Bucharest in more

10.04.2013

The ten leading highway construction sites in Romania advanced by an average of 2% between August 1 and September 1, show ZF calculations based on information provided by roads authority CNADNR. more

09.30.2013

Romania’s construction market will decline this year to EUR8.5–8.8 billion, from EUR9.3 billion in 2012, and from EUR15 billion in 2008, according to Laurentiu Plosceanu, head of the Romanian more