UK AND INTERNATIONAL PLANT COST INDICES

Process Engineering's PREDICT plant cost index for the UK is made up of five components covering mechanical IM, electrical IE, civil engineering IC, site engineering IS, and project overheads IO. These are now all calculated to the base 1996=100, together with the composite indices for the 13 countries that we regularly report each month.

{{UK PLANT COST INDICES JAN 1999 - MAR 1999

INDICES JAN FEB MAR

I 105.5 105.3 105.3IM 103.9 103.7R 103.6IE 94.9 94.8 94.7IC 106.5 106.3 106.6IS 113.6 113.0 112.9IO 104.8 104.8 104.9

R = revised value;P = provisional value; F = forecast value}}

{{INTERNATIONAL COST INDICES JAN 1999 - FEB 1999

Country JAN FEB MAR

Australia 107.5F 107.5F 107.6FAustria 106.7 106.8 106.8Belgium 103.6 103.6 103.6FCanada 104.7 105.4 105.0Denmark 112.0 112.2 112.4FFrance 105.6 105.4 105.8FGermany 98.5R 98.9 98.9FItaly 107.8 107.6 107.9FJapan 101.2 100.8 100.8Netherlands 107.1 107.0 107.3FSpain 108.6 108.6 108.7FSweden 109.4 108.4 108.3FUSA 102.6 102.6 102.6F

R = revised value;P = provisional value; F = forecast value}}