Construction starts 2025 in blue: 18% grows and marks its best performance in 12 years

The construction sector began with good footing this 2025 after growing 17.9% in January product of the “rebound of the public works“said the executive director of the Peruvian Chamber of Construction (Capeco) Guido Valdivia. Compared to the last 12 years, the performance of the GDP Sectorial is the best in 12 years, since January 2013.

The execution of public works In January, 4% grew after reaching S/2,369 million, a different hypo if the history of the last decade is observed. While January is usually a month of low execution, in the last five years there has been a growth Sustained, Valdivia added.

The director of Capeco considered that the rebound effect of public investment has managed to counteract the fall in cement consumption, which in January scored a contraction of -2.4%, the deepest since July last year.

“The consumption of cement It has had between April 2023 and December 2024 a fairly negative behavior, “he recalled.

For the first bimester of this 2025, the companies The sector considered that they could have a growth of 4.8% with greater emphasis on infrastructure. Given this panorama, businessmen raised their expectation of growth In operations for this year, from 4.0% in December to 4.9% in January, which implies a higher level of optimism.

All this coincides with the Business expectations about the confidence in the performance of the Peruvian economy. The perspectives three and 12 months maintain a growth trend, standing above 50 points.

Between November 2024 and January 2025, the employment under construction grew 22%, the highest rate since 2021. Only in Lima, 441,500 workers were counted in this area.