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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