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Construction Activity Dataset May 2025

Industry Insight’s construction project activity database shows construction activity, at national, provincial and municipal level of building and civil projects out to tender, awarded, postponed and cancelled. Developed in association with Databuild, the dataset has more than 20 years history, depicting real time activity affecting the local construction market.

In May 2025, South Africa's construction sector experienced a mixed performance. While the total number of projects awarded dropped 29.2% year-on-year to just 131—the lowest since August 2022—the total value of awards increased by 11.7% to R5.9 billion. This divergence was driven by several large-scale civil and building contracts, including a R1.2 billion photovoltaic and battery storage tender in Cape Town and an R800 million housing development in Umhlanga. Provincial trends were uneven, with significant declines in project numbers in KwaZulu-Natal, Mpumalanga, and the Free State, while value growth was most notable in Mpumalanga, Gauteng, and KwaZulu-Natal. The building sector showed a modest recovery in value for the first time in months, and civil project values rose for the sixth consecutive month.. Click here to download the May 2025 Review (Available to subscribers)

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