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Private sector investment drives +7.8% year-on-year increase in construction output
Poland’s public building construction market is expected to grow by 3% to a record-high level of PLN 7.5 billion (€ 1.8 billion) in 2012
UK construction output in August 2012 estimated to be 11.6% lower than a year earlier.
RICS predicts stronger end to year for UK housing market with transaction levels expected to pick up and price falls to slow.
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iC editor Chris Sleight spoke at this year's CEWEF on the prospects for construction markets around the world, looking at forecasts and key factors that will impact on the industry.
Costs in US non-residential construction continue to creep upwards.
December conference in Munich will add presentations on the Americas and Asia to the established programme of forecasts for European construction markets.
High global commodity prices and support from the development bank community auger well for the Southern African construction markets, but many areas still lack the basic infrastructure that will allow their economies to take off.
CW Group has adjusted its forecast for global cement volumes downwards in its second half 2012 Global Cement Volume Forecast Report (GCVFR)
There is a downbeat outlook for Europe this year and next, but (weak) growth should return in 2014 and beyond.
ONS figures show UK’s total volume of new construction orders in second quarter up 0.2% over first quarter.
Slovenian construction market experienced such a trough that some kind of recovery is likely in 2013.
The American Rental Association (ARA) has slightly lowered its rental growth forecast for this year following a slowdown of economic growth in the second quarter of 2012.
Construction output fall in second quarter partially blamed on unseasonal weather and changes to public holidays.
A fall of 45% in the number of new mobile cranes sold in China over the first six months of 2012 is largely due to the suspension of railway construction projects, according to a new report
Asia-Pacific, North American and Middle Eastern construction costs rise and start to rival, or overtake costs in historically expensive Western Europe.
The French equipment rental market fell by 1% in the second quarter of the year according to the latest ‘barometer’ member survey by DLR, the French association for construction equipment distributors, rental companies and the material handling sector.
Private construction drove the increase in June in the face of falling public spending.
After a flat year in 2012, Off-Highway Research expects the market to grow some +60% by 2016.
Off-Highway Research says volumes fell to 196,370 machines in the first six months of the year as policies aimed at curbing inflation impacted on the equipment sector.
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