UK AND INTERNATIONAL PLANT COST INDICES

As explained in last month's issue (on page 19), PE'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 13 countries that we regularly report each month.

{{UK PLANT COST INDICES AUG 1998 - OCT 1998

INDICES AUG SEP OCT

I 134.8F 135.3F 135.4FIM 134.3F 134.5F 134.7FIE 125.3F 125.3F 125.5FIC 133.4F 134.1F 134.1FIS 143.0F 145.0F 145.0FIO 133.0F 133.0F 133.0F

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

{{INTERNATIONAL COST INDICES AUG 1998 - OCT 1998

Country AUG SEP OCT

Australia 118.9F 118.9F 119.0FAustria 134.9 134.9 135.0Belgium 120.3F 121.0F 120.9FCanada 120.7 121.0 121.1Denmark 128.4F 128.5F 129.1FFrance 122.7R 123.0R 123.0Germany 132.6F 132.6F 132.6FItaly 135.2F 135.8F 136.0FJapan 106.1 106.8R 107.1Netherlands 120.9 120.9 121.0Spain 143.1F 143.1F 143.4FSweden 136.2 137.2 137.5USA 109.4 109.0F 109.3

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