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 have now been `rebased' to 1996=100, together with the composite indices for the 13 countries that we regularly report each month.

{{UK PLANT COST INDICES DEC 1998 - FEB 1999

INDICES DEC JAN FEB

I 105.5 105.5 105.3IM 103.9 103.9 103.8IE 94.9R 94.9 94.8IC 106.5 106.5 106.3IS 113.5R 113.6 113.0IO 104.7 104.8 104.8

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

{{INTERNATIONAL COST INDICES DEC 1998 - FEB 1999

Country DEC JAN FEB

Australia 106.9F 107.5F 107.5FAustria 106.6 106.7 106.8FBelgium 103.6 103.6R 103.6Canada 105.5 104.7R 105.4Denmark 111.6 112.0F 112.2France 105.4R 105.4R 105.5Germany 98.5R 98.8R 98.9Italy 107.6 107.8R 107.6Japan 97.4 101.2 100.8Netherlands 106.7 107.1 107.1FSpain 108.0 108.6 108.6Sweden 109.3 109.4 108.4USA 102.8P 102.6 102.6F

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