Seventy-six percent of the country’s works were at a standstill in the third quarter of last year, according to figures from the National Statistics Institute (INE), which say that, of 3,125 buildings visited in that period, 2,404 were inactive.
The numbers are included in the Quarterly Survey of Progress and Monitoring of Buildings in the Construction Process (ITAEPC), a document produced to characterize the progress of the construction of private buildings in the country’s main cities, as a variable in the National Accounts and the calculation of economic aggregates released last Monday.
The document indicates that the 3,125 works visited by INE represented 17.51 percent less than in the previous quarter and that Luanda led the list of constructions, with 33.56 percent, followed by Cuanza-Sul (12.21), Bié ( 9.57), Lunda-Sul (9.02) and Huambo (7.35).
Residential works dominated the purpose of the vast majority of buildings, with a total of 2,648, followed by those for personal use (359) and those for mixed purposes (118).
The destinations of the works classified by residences amounted to 2,969 and non-residential destinations (industry, commerce, hospitals, schools, offices, churches and hotels) to 156.
The provinces that concentrated the largest gross area were Lunda-Sul, 317,376 square meters, Luanda (137,200), Bié (101,695), Cuanza-Sul (48,945) and Moxico (38,872).
In the survey, the most used construction materials are distributed according to the structure (wall, floor and ceiling), with emphasis on concrete and iron, on the walls blocks, on the floors cement cake and ceramics and on the ceiling zinc sheet.
Only 11 works were carried out by companies and 17 were family owned, with 3,097 being carried out by master builders.
During the period under analysis, 3,080 permanent workers, 723 subcontractors and 35 unpaid workers were involved in the construction of buildings, with operators declaring an average monthly labor cost of 66.034 million kwanzas.
