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Building industry 2025: Hope for relaxation or still a crisis year?
The construction barometer 2025 shows mixed expectations for Austria's construction industry after difficult years. Optimism and uncertainty shape the industry.
Building industry 2025: Hope for relaxation or still a crisis year?
Austria's construction industry is facing a challenging year 2025. After five years full of difficulties, the current construction barometer of the Info Techno Bau database shows a mixed optimism. Although the order situation is positive in many companies, the general mood remains tense, as the Austrian Chamber of Commerce notes, which recorded a decline of 1 % in the nominal development for 2024 and a real decline of 4.5 %. Over 1,160 companies and planners took part in the survey and provided an insight into the worrying situation.
The high raw material and energy costs, the still existing strict regulations and the unclear funding policy that burden the industry are particularly problematic. While 40 % of the respondents assume further declines over the next year, a small glimmer of hope reports: the proportion of optimists who expect positive development rose from 21 % in 2024 to 28 %. This subdued confidence could indicate an improvement in the framework, even if 32 % continues to expect stagnating or negative development, as the construction barometer illustrates and shows the uncertainty within the industry.