{"id":42165,"date":"2018-06-12T09:10:17","date_gmt":"2018-06-12T08:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=42165"},"modified":"2018-06-11T15:06:27","modified_gmt":"2018-06-11T14:06:27","slug":"new-construction-output-figures-show-biggest-fall-since-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/new-construction-output-figures-show-biggest-fall-since-2012\/42165\/","title":{"rendered":"New construction output figures show biggest fall since 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Recent construction output figures released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), have shown that output fell by 3.4% in April, the biggest fall in the three-month on three-month series of figures since August 2012<\/h2>\n<h3>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ons.gov.uk\/\">ONS<\/a> figures show:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>The three-month on three-month decrease in construction output was driven by falls in both repair and maintenance and new work, which fell 3.0% and 3.7% respectively.<\/li>\n<li>Following three consecutive months of contraction in the month-on-month series at the start of 2018, construction output <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/ons-construction-output-price-indices-opi\/37947\/\">experienced a slight bounceback in April 2018, increasing by 0.5%<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Total construction new orders also decreased in Quarter 1 (Jan to Mar) 2018, falling by 4.6%, driven by the continued fall in all other work new orders<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Reflecting on the news, Michael Thirkettle, Chief Executive of\u00a0leading\u00a0construction consulting and design agency\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mcbains.co.uk\/\">McBains<\/a>, said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/report-reveals-construction-scale-ups-are-optimistic-about-brexit\/41636\/\">Today\u2019s statistics prove the construction sector is still in troubled 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