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 now all calculated to the base 1996=100, together with the composite indices for the 13 countries that we regularly report each month.

{{UK PLANT COST INDICES MAY 1999 - JUL 1999

INDICES MAY JUN JUL

I 105.5R 105.8 106.2IM 104.0 104.3R 104.6IE 94.6 94.7R 95.0IC 106.3 106.3 106.6IS 113.3 113.4R 114.0IO 105.1 105.6R 106.0

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

{{INTERNATIONAL COST INDICES MAY 1999 - JUL 1999

Country MAY JUN JUL

Australia 104.7R 104.6R 104.6Austria 107.4 107.4 106.7Belgium 104.3 104.3 104.1Canada 104.4 105.6R 103.9Denmark 110.4R 110.5R 110.4France 107.0F 107.0F 107.0FGermany 98.6F 98.9F 98.9FItaly 108.1 108.8 108.4Japan 100.0 96.9 97.2Netherlands 107.8F 107.8F 107.8Spain 109.2F 109.2 108.0Sweden 110.3 109.8 107.0USA 102.7 102.8 101.9

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