Construction Insights

The residential sector contract awards in 2019 were valued at £23.0 billion an increase of 0.9% on 2018. This follows on from 7.4% decrease in 2018. Following good growth in contract awards values between 2015 and 2017, there appears to have been some levelling off in 2018 and 2019. Key to this has been the … Read more

The latest data release from the ONS indicates that in the three months to November 2019 construction output increased by 1.1% on the previous three-month period. Key to this growth was a 1.6% increase in new work with repair and maintenance reporting a smaller 0.2% increase. Comparison with the three-month period ending November 2018 shows … Read more

The value of all construction contract awards in November 2019 was £5.4 billion based on a three-month rolling average. This is an increase of 9.1% on October, and an increase of 20.2% when compared with November 2018. Despite the increase in value of contract awards, the quantity has decreased by 1.0% in November to 855. … Read more