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 APR 1999 - JUN 1999

INDICES APR MAY JUN

I 105.3 105.5R 105.8IM 103.8 104.0 104.2IE 94.6 94.6 94.8IC 106.1 106.3R 106.3IS 113.0 113.3 113.5IO 105.0 105.1 105.5

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

{{INTERNATIONAL COST INDICES APR 1999 - JUN 1999

Country APR MAY JUN

Australia 108.2F 108.2F 108.2FAustria 106.8 107.4 107.4Belgium 104.3 104.3 104.3Canada 103.8 104.0 104.8Denmark 113.0 113.0 113.0France 107.0 107.0F 107.0FGermany 98.5F 98.6F 98.9FItaly 107.9 108.1F 108.8FJapan 100.5 100.0 96.9Netherlands 107.4R 107.8F 107.8FSpain 109.2F 109.2F 109.2FSweden 109.2 110.3 109.8USA 102.3 102.7 102.8

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