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 all calculated to the base 1996=100, as are the composite indices for the 13 countries that we have been regularly reporting each month. The new additions (see above) will be included once data is available on a consistent basis.

{{UK PLANT COST INDICES SEP 1999 - NOV 1999

INDICES SEP OCT NOV

I 106.6 107.1 107.9IM 104.4 104.7 105.3IE 96.8 97.0 97.7IC 107.2 107.8 108.5IS 115.5 116.6 118.2IO 105.9 106.4 107.1

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

{{INTERNATIONAL COST INDICES SEP 1999 - NOV 1999

Country SEP OCT NOV

Australia 105.0F 105.0F 105.0Austria 106.9 107.0 108.0Belgium 104.7F 104.7F 104.7Canada 102.5 102.5 102.5Denmark 111.7 111.2F 112.3France 107.0 107.0F 107.0Germany 107.4F 107.4F 107.4Italy 110.0F 110.0F 110.0Japan 101.5 101.5 100.8Netherlands 108.6 108.7 108.7Spain 110.4F 110.4F 110.4Sweden 107.0F 107.0F 107.0USA 102.1 101.9 102.1

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