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• Recession may cost 800,000 construction jobs - that's one in three

  The latest forecast from the Construction Products Association puts the annual peak to trough fall in construction at a shade above 20%. That probably translates to a 22% to 23% fall peak to trough on a quarterly basis, which compares with the 15% seen... Posted Jul 06 2009, 12:16 PM by Brickonomics Filed under: Construction Products Association, construction output, job losses, construction workforce, forecasts, construction

• Local builders set to shed more jobs as the recession deepens

  The latest survey of local builders by the FMB suggests that more jobs will shed over coming months with a majority of a third of firms expecting to cut jobs over the coming six months. It has to be said that the survey for the first quarter of this year... Posted Apr 21 2009, 01:41 PM by Brickonomics Filed under: recession, job losses, workload, surveys, FMB

• Are construction's vital job statistics wrong?

  Following the release of numbers suggesting construction jobs increased by 47,000 over 2008 I asked for clarification from the statisticians. To my mind and in the view of anyone in the industry I have spoken to these figures were wildly wrong. I have... Posted Mar 20 2009, 10:06 AM by Brickonomics Filed under: construction output, job losses, jobs, statistics, statisticians, redundancies, construction workforce, ONS

• Construction gains 47,000 jobs in 2008 - it may be official but I don't believe it

  Apparently there were 2,285,000 or so jobs in construction in the final quarter of last year up 47,000 on a year earlier and just 1,000 down on the quarter before, which appears to be the peak in this economic cycle. Puzzled? Wondering where these jobs... Posted Mar 18 2009, 10:01 AM by Brickonomics Filed under: construction industry, construction firms, construction output, job losses, jobs, employment

• Don't be fooled by contractors' reports of healthy profits

  I am becoming a bit discomforted by persistent misplaced chirpiness. I keep reading and hearing things that tell me "it's not all bad in the construction sector". Fair enough, the construction sector is never "all bad". Come hell... Posted Feb 27 2009, 04:51 PM by Brickonomics Filed under: main contractors, recession, RBS, job losses, share prices, Sir Fred Goodwin, profit margins

• Is this Government ignorance which I see before me?

  The latest report from the House of Commons Communities and Local Government Committee called Housing and the Credit Crunch is well worth a read for a run through of the current travails of the industry. It seems broadly to "welcome" what the... Posted Feb 24 2009, 09:31 AM by Brickonomics Filed under: house building, job losses, housing policy, CLG, housing targets