{"id":47327,"date":"2018-09-20T11:26:55","date_gmt":"2018-09-20T10:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=47327"},"modified":"2018-09-20T11:26:55","modified_gmt":"2018-09-20T10:26:55","slug":"infrastructure-contracts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/infrastructure-contracts\/47327\/","title":{"rendered":"Strong month for infrastructure boosts construction contracts in August"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>The value of new contracts across construction reached \u00a36bn in August, a monthly increase of 28.9%, according to Barbour ABI\u2019s latest market review<\/h2>\n<p>The latest edition of the Economic &amp; Construction Market Review from industry analysts <a href=\"https:\/\/www.barbour-abi.com\/\">Barbour ABI<\/a> highlights levels of construction contract values awarded across Great Britain.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/uk-construction-pmi-jumps\/44072\/\">residential sector<\/a> continues to dominate and during August contract values were \u00a32.2bn, accounting for 36.2% of contracts awarded. However, this is still some way behind the recent peak of March 2018 when \u00a32.4bn contracts \u2013 including 25% more residential units \u2013 were awarded.<\/p>\n<p>The infrastructure sector saw award values exceed the \u00a31bn threshold for the first time in six months, with the current quarter being 6.8% ahead of 2017. Enhanced by a number of large utilities contracts, infrastructure led the table of the biggest value contract awards across construction with five of the top ten projects for August being from this sector (see fig. 1).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_47328\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-47328\" style=\"width: 696px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-47328 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Strong-month-for-infrastructure-boosts-construction-contracts-in-August-1024x536.jpg\" alt=\"infrastructure\" width=\"696\" height=\"364\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Strong-month-for-infrastructure-boosts-construction-contracts-in-August-1024x536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Strong-month-for-infrastructure-boosts-construction-contracts-in-August-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Strong-month-for-infrastructure-boosts-construction-contracts-in-August-768x402.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Strong-month-for-infrastructure-boosts-construction-contracts-in-August-696x364.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Strong-month-for-infrastructure-boosts-construction-contracts-in-August-1068x559.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Strong-month-for-infrastructure-boosts-construction-contracts-in-August-803x420.jpg 803w, https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Strong-month-for-infrastructure-boosts-construction-contracts-in-August-1920x1005.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Strong-month-for-infrastructure-boosts-construction-contracts-in-August.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-47328\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">fig. 1<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The \u00a31.8bn Triton Knoll 900MW Offshore Wind Farm in the Greater Wash Basin off the Lincolnshire coast involves 288 turbines which are scheduled to produce 900 to 1,200 MW of electricity and was the largest contract awarded. The award of this project, plus Project Two at the Hornsea Onshore Substation in Lincolnshire, contributed significantly to the East Midlands leading the regional position with 68.4% of contracts awarded within the infrastructure sector, a 48.5% increase on August 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The East Midlands also led regionally across all sectors, with a contract award value of 28.8% of the UK total. This was followed by the South East with a 14% share helped largely by the second largest contract award project for August which was the M23 J9-J10 Smart Motorway Gatwick Junctions in Redhill in Surrey at \u00a3158.4m.<\/p>\n<p>Commenting on the figures, Michael Dall, Lead Economist at Barbour ABI, said: \u201cIt\u2019s been a positive month \u2013 every sector within construction is up month on month and it is great to see award values boosted by some big-ticket Infrastructure projects.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf course, it remains to be seen whether the better numbers are temporary as the industry continues to play catch up with the lost output from the start of the year, but these figures should still provide much-needed confidence and are hopefully a sign of a more durable upturn in demand.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"mk-custom-module-container\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The value of new contracts across construction reached \u00a36bn in August, a monthly increase of 28.9%, according to Barbour ABI\u2019s latest market review<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"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":[304],"tags":[825,676,283,579,639],"stakeholder_rel_tag":[],"contributor_rel_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-47327","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-planning-construction-news","7":"tag-barbour-abi","8":"tag-construction","9":"tag-finance","10":"tag-infrastructure","11":"tag-procurement"},"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>Strong month for infrastructure boosts construction contracts in August<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The value of new contracts across construction reached \u00a36bn in August, a monthly increase of 28.9%, according to Barbour ABI\u2019s latest market review\" \/>\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\/planning-construction-news\/infrastructure-contracts\/47327\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Strong month for infrastructure boosts construction contracts in August\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The value of new contracts across construction reached \u00a36bn in August, a monthly increase of 28.9%, according to Barbour ABI\u2019s latest market review\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/infrastructure-contracts\/47327\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Planning, Building &amp; 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