UK AND INTERNATIONAL PLANT COST INDICES

As explained above, 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 JULY 1998 - SEP 1998

INDICES JUL AUG SEP

I 134.4P 134.8F 135.3FIM 134.0P 134.3F 134.5FIE 125.3P 125.3F 125.3FIC 133.2P 133.4F 134.1FIS 142.6 143.0F 145.0FIO 132.3 133.0F 133.0F

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

{{INTERNATIONAL COST INDICES JULY 1998 - SEP 1998

Country JUL AUG SEP

Australia 122.6F 122.6F 122.6FAustria 134.9 135.0 135.0Belgium 120.2F 120.3F 120.3FCanada 121.6 120.7 121.1Denmark 128.9F 129.0F 129.1FFrance 121.0 121.1 121.1Germany 132.6F 132.6F 132.6FItaly 133.5F 134.1F 134.1FJapan 105.9 106.1 106.7Netherlands 120.9 120.9 120.9Spain 143.1F 143.1F 143.1FSweden 136.0 136.2 137.2USA 108.9 109.2 109.3F

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