Economic & Construction Market Review

Construction market intelligence from Barbour ABI’s Economic & Construction Market Review provides analysis and insight into the construction industry.

As a valued customer of Barbour ABI, you will receive the full edition of our monthly Economic & Construction Market Review, which provides valuable industry statistics, construction market intelligence and sector insight to help forecast new business opportunities and drive marketing activity.

Our monthly report includes detailed information on the economic climate and its effects on the construction industry, as well as a roundup of the construction industry from the past month. Included are graphs with the UK’s hottest locations for construction contracts, the types of projects with the most amount of contracts and the top 10 biggest projects by value.

The latest edition of the Economic & Construction Market Review is now available for download. This top headlines in this month’s report include:

• The value of construction contracts awarded in March 2018 was £5.3 billion based on a three month rolling average
• The South East was the region with the largest share of contract awards value in March at 18.5%, followed by the North West with 15.9% and London with 14.6% of contracts award values
• The highest value contract award in March was the £159.7 million project Kier Living to provide 256 residential units as well as neighbourhood centre and retail units at Preston Road in Longridge, Lancashire.
• Infrastructure contract value decreased by 56.9% on March last year and was at its lowest since Barbour ABI began tracking the series

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