{"id":68593,"date":"2019-12-03T11:28:39","date_gmt":"2019-12-03T11:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=68593"},"modified":"2019-12-03T11:28:39","modified_gmt":"2019-12-03T11:28:39","slug":"construction-output-slowest-decline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/construction-output-slowest-decline\/68593\/","title":{"rendered":"Construction output crashes to slowest decline since July"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Construction companies in the UK have recorded yet another drop in business during November, the <\/span><span class=\"s1\">slowest <\/span><span class=\"s1\">decline since July 2019, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cips.org\/en-gb\/supply-management\/tag\/markitcips-uk-construction-purchasing-managers-index\/?page=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">IHS Markit\/CIPS UK<\/a> survey shows<\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">All three broad areas of construction work recorded a fall in output during November, with civil engineering the worst performing category, followed by commercial building.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Construction Total Activity Index rose to 45.3 in November, from 44.2 in October, to signal the slowest drop in overall construction output for four months. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/output-figures-ons\/59822\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Reduced business activity<\/a> was attributed to a lack of new work to replace completed contracts. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In some cases, survey respondents suggested that unusually wet weather in November had also weighed on output.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The slower decline in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/planning-housebuilding-growth\/61893\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">housing activity<\/a> helped to moderate the overall drop in UK construction output signalled by the survey in November.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Latest data pointed to another sharp reduction in new work received across the construction sector. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Survey respondents commented on subdued client confidence and ongoing hesitancy to commit to new projects, largely in <\/span><span class=\"s1\">response to domestic political uncertainty.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Decline in construction staffing numbers<\/h3>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Construction companies reported a sustained decline in their staffing numbers during November. A number of firms noted that softer demand had prompted cost-cutting efforts and led to the non-replacement of voluntary leavers. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Mirroring the trend for employment, latest data revealed a solid reduction in purchasing activity across the construction sector. Weaker demand for construction products and materials allowed suppliers to catch up on their workloads in November. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">As a result, vendor lead-times lengthened to the smallest extent since September 2010. Subdued demand for raw materials led to fewer price rises by suppliers in November. Moreover, latest data indicated that overall input cost inflation remained the among the lowest seen since early-2016.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-68597\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Screen-Shot-2019-12-03-at-10.19.45-300x176.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"622\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Screen-Shot-2019-12-03-at-10.19.45-300x176.png 300w, https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Screen-Shot-2019-12-03-at-10.19.45-768x451.png 768w, https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Screen-Shot-2019-12-03-at-10.19.45-1024x601.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Screen-Shot-2019-12-03-at-10.19.45-696x409.png 696w, https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Screen-Shot-2019-12-03-at-10.19.45-1068x627.png 1068w, https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Screen-Shot-2019-12-03-at-10.19.45-715x420.png 715w, https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Screen-Shot-2019-12-03-at-10.19.45-610x358.png 610w, https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Screen-Shot-2019-12-03-at-10.19.45.png 1468w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 622px) 100vw, 622px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Expectations for construction in 2020<\/h3>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Looking ahead, construction companies remain relatively cautious about their prospects for growth over the course of 2020. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The degree of business optimism was little-changed since October and still much weaker than its long-run average. Reports from survey respondents suggested that this largely reflected concerns about the domestic economic outlook and worries that political uncertainty will continue to hold back client confidence. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Tim Moore, economics associate director at IHS Markit, said: \u201cUK construction output fell again in November as Brexit uncertainty and the forthcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/late-payment-besa\/67386\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">General Election<\/a> continued to send a chill breeze across the sector. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">&#8220;The speed of the downturn in construction work eased a little since October, but the survey continues to signal a notable drop-off in business conditions compared with the first half of 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">&#8220;Greater spending on transportation and energy projects had been expected to help boost infrastructure work this year and next, but survey respondents indicated a sustained soft patch for overall civil engineering activity in November. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">&#8220;Some construction companies reaffirmed their concern about the delivery of road and rail projects, with delays to contract awards acting as an additional headwind to growth projections for 2020.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"mk-custom-module-container\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Construction companies in the UK have recorded yet another drop in business during November, the slowest decline since July 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"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":[591,676,997,908,882,276,572,656,678,974],"stakeholder_rel_tag":[],"contributor_rel_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-68593","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-planning-construction-news","7":"tag-brexit","8":"tag-construction","9":"tag-development","10":"tag-economy","11":"tag-employment","12":"tag-government","13":"tag-housebuilding","14":"tag-housing","15":"tag-markit","16":"tag-pmi"},"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>Construction output crashes to slowest decline since July<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Construction companies in the UK have recorded yet another drop in business during November, the slowest decline since July 2019\" \/>\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\/construction-output-slowest-decline\/68593\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Construction output crashes to slowest decline since July\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Construction companies in the UK have recorded yet another drop in business during November, the slowest decline since July 2019\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/construction-output-slowest-decline\/68593\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Planning, Building &amp; 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