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 MAR 1999 - MAY 1999

INDICES MAR APR MAY

I 105.4 105.3R 105.1IM 103.7 103.8 104.0IE 94.7 94.6 94.6IC 106.6 106.1 105.5IS 113.0 113.0 111.3IO 105.0 105.0 105.1

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

{{INTERNATIONAL COST INDICES MAR 1999 - MAY 1999

Country MAR APR MAY

Australia 107.5F 107.7F 107.9FAustria 106.8 106.8 107.5Belgium 103.6F 104.3F 104.3FCanada 105.0 103.8 104.0Denmark 112.4F 113.0F 113.0FFrance 106.0 106.5F 106.5FGermany 99.8 99.8 100.4FItaly 107.6 107.9 108.0Japan 100.7 100.5 100.0Netherlands 107.2 107.6 107.6FSpain 109.2F 109.2F 109.9FSweden 107.9 109.2 109.5USA 102.4 102.3 102.4F

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