Fuel rise prompts CECA to raise day rates

The Civil Engineering Contractors Association (CECA) has advised members to add 20% to its published Dayworks Rates because of the rise price of fuel oil (red diesel) . Since publishing the latest edition a year ago, CECA said ‘the cost of fuel has significantly increased the operating costs of construction plant’.

The rates are used by CECA’s 350 members when costing work on a dayrate basis incidental to the main contract where no other rates have been agreed.

For plant running on Ultra Low Sulphur Diesel, the increase is 7.5% as it is with petrol-powered units while that for electrically-driven machines is only 5%.  However it advises a 25% increase for LPG powered machinery and a massive 40% for anything running on paraffin.