Barbour ABI Content Team 
Designed to provide company intelligence for those working within construction and beyond, we report on the top 50 contractors, architects and clients for the month as well as the last 12 months. The top contractors in the UK for May 2019 Kier are at the top of the contractors’ league table for May 2019, thanks … Read more
The value of all construction contract awards in April 2019, was £5.2bn based on a three-month rolling average. This is a decrease of 2.1% on March but it is 5.7% higher than April 2018 Download our Economic & Construction Market Review to read the full report. For the three-month period ending April 2019 total construction … Read more
Every office from across the globe takes part in a 10 mile walk to raise money for their chosen charity. Last year, Informa colleagues walked over 42,000km (25,000 miles) which is further than the length of the equator! Barbour ABI voted and decided to support Cheshire Young Carers as they rely on the support of … Read more
Designed to provide company intelligence for those working within construction and beyond, we our league table report on the top 50 contractors, architects and clients for the month as well as the last 12 months. The top contractors in the UK for April 2019 ISG head the top contractors table for April 2019 awards thanks … Read more
Barbour ABI data on all contract activity revealed that the value of all construction contract awards in March 2019 was £5.3bn based on a three-month rolling average. This is a 1.2% decrease on February but is 0.6% higher than for March 2018. Quarterly analysis indicates that in the three-month period ending March 2019, total contract … Read more
Home improvement figures across Great Britain decreased in 2018 with the number of planning applications dropping by 2.8%. What drives households to spend on home improvement will vary over time, place to place, household to household. Many factors will influence decisions. Exploring these various factors reveals how the pattern of which households are most likely … Read more
The residential construction sector had a particularly positive February with £1.7 billion contracts awarded, which is an increase of 13.1% compared to January. Residential unit numbers also increased – up by 5.4% on January at 9,850 units. Following the residential sector in terms of contracts awarded was infrastructure with a 13.9% share and education with … Read more
We continue to see that the infrastructure sector remains open to considerable volatility in monthly contract award values. However, looking at the trend over the last two years, the sector remains relatively robust with contract awards consistently above the £500 million threshold. The latest edition of our Economic & Construction Market Review is now available … Read more
The January edition of our Economic & Construction Market Review has just published It shows that during 2018 the value of construction contract awards was £61.6 billion, a decrease of 13.1% on 2017. The number of contracts was also on a downwards trend with 10,352 awarded, a decline of 8.2% on 2017. In good news … Read more
House price growth is slowing which could have an impact on the speed of housing construction… Reading over the latest output figures from the Office for National Statistics it appears that construction continues to perform strongly in the first quarter of 2017. The industry grew by 0.2% in Q1 compared with the final quarter of … Read more
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