UK AND INTERNATIONAL PLANT COST INDICES

As the main text explains, 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 NOV 1998 - JAN 1999

INDICES NOV DEC JAN

I 105.5 105.5P 103.3FIM 103.9 103.9P 102.8FIE 95.0 95.0P 94.6FIC 106.9 106.5P 103.7FIS 113.5 113.6P 106.8FIO 104.7 104.7P 104.0F

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

{{INTERNATIONAL COST INDICES NOV 1998 - JAN 1999

Country NOV DEC JAN

Australia 106.9F 106.9F 107.5FAustria 106.5 106.6 106.7Belgium 103.6 103.6 104.2Canada 104.5 105.5F 104.7FDenmark 111.8 111.7F 112.0FFrance 105.3 105.3F 105.3FGermany 98.4 98.4F 98.4FItaly 108.2 108.2F 108.2FJapan 102.2 97.4 101.2Netherlands 106.8 106.7F 107.1FSpain 108.0 108.0F 108.6FSweden 108.6 109.3 109.3USA 102.8 102.8P 102.6F

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