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 presented here for the last three months for which data is available, together with composite indices for the 13 countries that we regularly report each month.

{{UK PLANT COST INDICES OCT 1998 - DEC 1998

INDICES OCT NOV DEC

I 134.0F 134.1F 134.2FIM 133.5F 133.5F 133.6FIE 124.3F 124.0F 124.2FIC 132.8F 132.7F 132.3FIS 142.2F 142.4F 142.6FIO 132.2F 132.4F 132.8F

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

{{INTERNATIONAL COST INDICES OCT 1998 - DEC 1998

Country OCT NOV DEC

Australia 118.7F 118.7F 118.7FAustria 135.0 136.8 136.8Belgium 120.9F 120.9F 120.9FCanada 121.2 121.1F 122.3FDenmark 129.1 129.6 129.5FFrance 122.9F 123.0F 123.0FGermany 125.2F 125.2F 125.2FItaly 136.0F 136.7F 136.7FJapan 107.1 108.0 101.2Netherlands 121.0 120.9 120.9Spain 143.4 144.1 144.1FSweden 137.5 138.2 139.0USA 109.5 109.2 109.1

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