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 FEB 1999 - APRIL 1999

INDICES FEB MAR APR

I 105.3 105.4R 105.4IM 103.7 103.7R 103.8IE 94.8 94.7 94.6IC 106.3 106.6 106.1IS 113.0 113.0 113.0IO 104.8 105.0R 105.0

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

{{INTERNATIONAL COST INDICES FEB 1999 - APRIL 1999

Country FEB MAR APR

Australia 107.5F 107.5F 107.7FAustria 106.8 106.8 106.8Belgium 103.6 103.6F 104.3FCanada 105.4 105.0 103.8Denmark 112.3 112.4F 112.6FFrance 105.4 105.8 105.8Germany 98.6 98.6F 98.6FItaly 107.7 107.6 107.9Japan 100.7 100.7 100.5Netherlands 107.0 107.2 107.6Spain 109.1 109.2F 109.2FSweden 108.3 107.9 109.2USA 102.7 102.4 102.3

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