Mar 7 2005
The total volume of construction output in 2004 rose by four per cent compared to the previous year. Overall new work rose over the same period, despite a decrease in the infrastructure sector. Repair and maintenance was unchanged, with decreases in the public and private non-housing sectors offsetting increases in the public and private housing R&M. Output in the fourth quarter of 2004 rose by one per cent compared to the third quarter in volume terms and was broadly unchanged in current prices.
The total volume of new work in 2004 was seven per cent higher compared with the previous year but was unchanged in the fourth quarter compared with the previous quarter. The total volume of repair and maintenance work was unchanged in 2004 compared with the previous year, but was two per cent higher in the fourth quarter of 2004 compared to the previous quarter.
New private housing work in 2004 was 13 per cent higher compared with the previous year and the fourth quarter of 2004 was one per cent higher than the previous quarter. New work in the public housing sector in 2004 was 20 per cent higher (on a small base figure) compared with the previous year but the latest quarter was 10 per cent lower than the previous quarter. New infrastructure output in 2004 was 13 per cent lower compared with the previous year, and the fourth quarter of 2004 fell by 10 per cent compared with the previous quarter.
New construction work in the private industrial sector in 2004 was 10 per cent higher compared with the previous year, and rose by six per cent in the fourth quarter compared with the previous quarter. New private commercial output in 2004 was six per cent higher compared to the previous year and was three per cent higher in the fourth quarter of 2004 compared to the previous quarter. New work in the public non-housing sector (excluding infrastructure) in 2004 rose by 15 per cent compared to the previous year and rose by two per cent compared with the previous quarter.
Housing repair and maintenance work (including improvement work) in the public sector was eight per cent higher in 2004 compared with the previous year and was five per cent higher in the most recent quarter compared with previous quarter. Housing repair and maintenance work in the private sector in 2004 was one per cent higher compared with the previous year but fell by one per cent in the fourth quarter compared to the previous quarter.
Repair and maintenance work in the public non-housing sector in 2004 was four per cent lower compared with the previous year, but was two per cent higher in the most recent quarter compared with the previous quarter. Repair and maintenance work in the private non-housing sector in 2004 was four per cent lower compared with the previous year but was three per cent higher in the most recent quarter compared with the previous quarter.
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