During the first two months of the year, the construction industry in Nuevo Leon registered a growth of 20.7% compared to the same period of the previous year, driven mostly by private works, said the President of the Mexican Chamber of Industry. of Construction (CMIC), José Francisco Gutiérrez.

"This is due to the fact that contracts for programs and works carried out by the State and the municipalities are in progress, but mainly to private investment, which in this period concentrated 80.4 percent of the contracted works," he explained.

He also explained that private investment strongly promotes the construction industry in the State, in which in 2017, 81.9% of the contracted works were carried out by the private sector and 18.1% by the public sector.