According to the preliminary seasonally and working-day adjusted DZS data, the index of the volume of construction work in July was 0.9% down from June.
On the year, the volume of construction work done on buildings rose 5.8% while the volume of work on other structures dropped by 3.9%.
In the first seven months of this year, construction activity rose by 1.6% compared to the same period of last year.
Work on buildings went up 5.6% in that period while the volume of work on other structures dropped by 2.4%.