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Facts of life in construction
00:00 02 Mar 1995
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Want to sparkle at the next office party? Want to dazzle everyone
with your astonishing knowledge of the construction industry? Then
get yourself the latest edition of the 'Digest of Data for the
Construction Industry'.
Here's something which will interest colleagues even more than your collection of spades. Watch their amazement as you reel off the most obscure construction facts. Did you know for example that a delivery of sand costs less in Poland than in Saudi Arabia or Kuwait? That Blackpool has a fifth of all boarding houses in the UK? That the most popular construction training course is carpentry?
These facts and a wealth of other management information for the construction industry are published this week by the Environment Department.
Announcing the publication, construction minister, Lord Ullswater said: 'Today's publication is significant on two levels. First it will be useful for all planners in the construction industry. I am confident that the Digest will establish itself as a key construction industry reference source.
'Second it represents a further example of the department and the industry working closely together to help increase industrial competitiveness.'
One significant addition to this edition are the tables of industrial and commercial floorspace throughout England and Wales - published for the first time since 1986. The tables show that availability of new office space in the City of London has fallen dramatically this year from 4,900,651 sq feet in January last year to 2,704,926 sq feet in the same period this year. Secondary space has also plummeted in the same period from 6,535,829 sq feet to 4,774,941 sq feet.
Other tables cover international comparisons of construction productivity, central and local government construction expenditure, data on construction insolvencies and bankruptcies and construction output.
The Digest reveals that the south east had the highest construction output in 1993, valued at œ11,909 million. Wales was at the bottom of the league with an output valuing only œ1,826 million.
The Digest's data also reveals that although only 12.4% of UK companies were involved in construction in 1993, 15.4% of all insolvencies in the same year were in the construction industry.
The Digest has been produced jointly with the consultative committee on construction industry statistics.
Available from HMSO bookshops (ISBN No 0/11/753044/1) and priced œ21.00. For further information call 0171 873 9090.
Here's something which will interest colleagues even more than your collection of spades. Watch their amazement as you reel off the most obscure construction facts. Did you know for example that a delivery of sand costs less in Poland than in Saudi Arabia or Kuwait? That Blackpool has a fifth of all boarding houses in the UK? That the most popular construction training course is carpentry?
These facts and a wealth of other management information for the construction industry are published this week by the Environment Department.
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Announcing the publication, construction minister, Lord Ullswater said: 'Today's publication is significant on two levels. First it will be useful for all planners in the construction industry. I am confident that the Digest will establish itself as a key construction industry reference source.
'Second it represents a further example of the department and the industry working closely together to help increase industrial competitiveness.'
One significant addition to this edition are the tables of industrial and commercial floorspace throughout England and Wales - published for the first time since 1986. The tables show that availability of new office space in the City of London has fallen dramatically this year from 4,900,651 sq feet in January last year to 2,704,926 sq feet in the same period this year. Secondary space has also plummeted in the same period from 6,535,829 sq feet to 4,774,941 sq feet.
Other tables cover international comparisons of construction productivity, central and local government construction expenditure, data on construction insolvencies and bankruptcies and construction output.
The Digest reveals that the south east had the highest construction output in 1993, valued at œ11,909 million. Wales was at the bottom of the league with an output valuing only œ1,826 million.
The Digest's data also reveals that although only 12.4% of UK companies were involved in construction in 1993, 15.4% of all insolvencies in the same year were in the construction industry.
The Digest has been produced jointly with the consultative committee on construction industry statistics.
Available from HMSO bookshops (ISBN No 0/11/753044/1) and priced œ21.00. For further information call 0171 873 9090.
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