{"id":101791,"date":"2021-11-12T15:01:18","date_gmt":"2021-11-12T15:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=101791"},"modified":"2022-02-02T09:52:01","modified_gmt":"2022-02-02T09:52:01","slug":"materials-and-skills-shortages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/plant-equipment-supplies-news\/materials-and-skills-shortages\/101791\/","title":{"rendered":"Materials and skills shortages threatens construction\u2019s recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>The construction industry is struggling to recover due to increasing material costs and skills shortages, says the Federation of Master Builders (FMB)<\/h2>\n<p>The Federation of Master Builders (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fmb.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">FMB<\/a>) has responded to the latest figures from the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/statistics\/construction-output-in-great-britain-august-2021\">Office of National Statistics (ONS)<\/a> saying that the overall picture remains bleak for the construction industry.<\/p>\n<p>The increase in construction output at 1.3% in September is welcome news but the industry is continuing to face difficulties due to soaring prices with materials and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/hr-skills-news\/women-in-engineering-2\/66246\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">skills shortages.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Brian Berry, chief executive of the FMB said: &#8220;The 1.3% improvement in construction output in September is a positive turnaround from the fall in previous months.<\/p>\n<h3>&#8216;Builders forced to press pause on jobs&#8217;<\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;The 1.5% drop in overall output for Q3 2021, from Q2, signals the continued need for action to be taken to resolve <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/plant-equipment-supplies-news\/2021-building-materials-crisis\/96690\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">building material<\/a> and skills shortages.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Through the FMB\u2019s State of Trade Survey for Q3, we know that 89% of small, local builders have been forced to press pause on jobs as a result of material and labour shortages, with 97% having experienced increased material costs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The fact that we are now experiencing the strongest annual rate of construction output price growth since records began indicates the unhealthy effects of these two issues on the sector.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"mk-custom-module-container\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The construction industry is struggling to recover due to increasing material costs and skills shortages, says the Federation of Master Builders (FMB). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[308],"tags":[583,720,592,701],"stakeholder_rel_tag":[],"contributor_rel_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-101791","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-plant-equipment-supplies-news","7":"tag-construction-products","8":"tag-federation-of-master-builders","9":"tag-skills","10":"tag-supply-chain"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Materials and skills shortages threatens construction\u2019s recovery<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The construction industry is struggling to recover due to materials and skills shortages, says the Federation of Master Builders (FMB)\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/plant-equipment-supplies-news\/materials-and-skills-shortages\/101791\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Materials and skills shortages threatens construction\u2019s recovery\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The construction industry is struggling to recover due to materials and skills shortages, says the Federation of Master Builders (FMB)\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/plant-equipment-supplies-news\/materials-and-skills-shortages\/101791\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Planning, Building &amp; 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