The construction industry has more than 1.7 billion tinars annually in the construction industry, while the additional value of the total production is about 44 percent.
According to the representative of the Department of the Jordan Chamber of Industry, the sector’s contribution to GDP is 2.2 per cent, and the total number of workers within it reached 15,300 workers and workers, with 62 percent of them from local workers.
Abu Sa Fa Jordan News Agency (Petra) said that the industry has distinguished the contributions of the industry, as it has been classified as one of the largest economic activities for T O Ou Lita for the additional value of accepting local production and employment entries, which indicates that the largest number of operating facilities today will be achieved today.
The construction industry is one of the most prominent strategic economic sectors of its expertise, as the contribution and creation of the national economy, because it is associated with the diversity of its expertise, with a number of sectors in the Kingdom, construction and urban business sectors, with many sectors in hotels, restaurants, houses, etc.
Abu Sa Fa pointed out that construction industries are considered one of the intensive sectors of employment, as it contains specialist technicians of engineers, technicians and employment, in addition to their contribution to the support of national exports due to its high quality.
He pointed out that exports of the sector reached about 11 months of 2024, about 82 million daily, reaching more than 44 markets around the world. Saudi Arabia, Palestine and Iraq bought 62 percent of the total exports of the sector.
India, Qatar, Emirates, China, Oman Sultanate, Kuwait, the United States and Malaysia are the most important exports of construction industry exports.
He pointed out that the construction industry has a higher role in the local market, as its products are based on many sectors and a final product for local consumers, indicating the average percentage of production within the kingdom of construction, indicating the average of 90 percent of the local use of construction materials.
The most important of the challenges faced by the construction industry were Abu Sa Fa, the most important of which is the limited capacity of the owners of construction installations, even in obtaining the sources of their necessary funding in their operations, to expand their amenities or to use new production lines or to use renewable energy instead of electricity.
He pointed out that there is a shortage of technical and trained workers because of the highest cost of local workers, due to the government’s job permits, shelter, guarantees and fees imposed by the government to attract foreign workers.
In fierce competition challenges by imported products, it is the lack of compliance with some of the imported products and the low prices of imported products due to the low production cost of imported products, leading to unreasonable competition due to the lack of consistent specifications for all products.
According to Abu Sa Fafafah, the weak exploitation of many free trade agreements associated with other challenges and the kingdom that does not have marketing and promotion strategies in unusual export markets, in addition to the higher production, is considered to be the most energy consumption of the construction industry, especially electricity.
Under construction industries, the following sub -sectors are included: construction stones, crops and sand products, constructive insulation materials, healthy extensions, their products, tiles, glass panels, construction heat materials, cement products, forces, metal structures, decorations, decorations and other similar industries for construction purposes.
