AICCOPN's latest barometer counts 3,477 tenders launched in seven months, down 31 percent. Contracts signed through open tender fell 34 percent, while direct awards and prior consultations grew 20 percent to €449 million.
Consolidated net profit came in at €12.1 million against nearly €43 million a year earlier, when a bank refinancing added a non-recurring €46.5 million. Turnover rose 25.1% to €401 million and EBITDA more than doubled to €58 million.
The Lisbon-listed construction group told the market it had secured two contracts in Mexico — an elevated viaduct and a broader urban-mobility scheme — reinforcing a Latin American business that has become central to its growth.
Grupo Casais of Braga and Spain's ACR have created CREE Iberia, a 50/50 company to build with prefabricated timber-and-concrete systems across the Iberian Peninsula. It targets hotels, student and senior housing and 'flex living', betting factory-made construction can beat the building site.
INE's New Housing Construction Cost Index rose 6.9% in the year to May 2026, and 1.1% on the month, with labour up 7.5% and materials 6.4%. Bitumen, diesel and copper wire led the material increases, while a skilled-worker shortage keeps wage pressure sticky — a floor beneath already-strained house
Portugal's largest builder is increasingly confident a Texas court will throw out the defamation suit brought by short-seller Muddy Waters — potentially on jurisdictional grounds, according to ECO reporting.
As the Portuguese national football team prepared to open its 2026 FIFA World Cup campaign against the Democratic Republic of the Congo at 18:00 Western European Summer Time (WEST) in Houston, the country's bilateral economic relationship with its...
