{"id":70671,"date":"2020-01-24T09:49:36","date_gmt":"2020-01-24T09:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=70671"},"modified":"2020-01-24T09:49:36","modified_gmt":"2020-01-24T09:49:36","slug":"construction-contract-awards-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/construction-contract-awards-2019\/70671\/","title":{"rendered":"Construction contract awards remain stable for 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Construction contract awards continued the downward trend of recent years in 2019, as Brexit uncertainty and HS2 doubts consume the industry, according to Barbour ABI<\/h2>\n<p>The latest construction market review has revealed the value of all construction contract awards in 2019 was \u00a359.9bn, this represents an increase of 0.2% on 2018, which in turn was 15.7% lower than 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The latest edition of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.barbour-abi.com\/economic-and-construction-market-review\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Economic &amp; Construction Market Review<\/a> from industry analysts <a href=\"https:\/\/www.barbour-abi.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Barbour ABI<\/a>\u00a0revealed the number of contract awards continued the downward trend exhibited in recent years with awards falling to 9,580. This is a decrease of 7.3% on 2018 and is also 23.0% lower than 2014 when the number of contract awards peaked at 12,447.<\/p>\n<p>Whilst contract awards values have levelled off <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/construction-contract-awards-3\/69207\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">in 2019<\/a>, the value of \u00a359.9bn is approximately 20.3% lower than the peak of \u00a375.1bn achieved in 2015.<\/p>\n<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-70679 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Screenshot-2020-01-24-at-09.31.26-216x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"257\" height=\"357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Screenshot-2020-01-24-at-09.31.26-216x300.png 216w, https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Screenshot-2020-01-24-at-09.31.26-768x1065.png 768w, https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Screenshot-2020-01-24-at-09.31.26-738x1024.png 738w, https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Screenshot-2020-01-24-at-09.31.26-696x965.png 696w, https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Screenshot-2020-01-24-at-09.31.26-303x420.png 303w, https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Screenshot-2020-01-24-at-09.31.26-610x846.png 610w, https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Screenshot-2020-01-24-at-09.31.26.png 780w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 257px) 100vw, 257px\" \/>Leading sectors<\/h3>\n<p>The residential sector maintains its position as the leading sector in 2019, accounting for 38.4% of all construction contract awards, which is 0.3% higher than in 2018. The leading residential contract awarded during the year was the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/mace-phase-1-nine-elms-square\/62866\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nine Elms Parkside<\/a> Plots B &amp; D at Wandsworth in London, valued at \u00a3276.4m.<\/p>\n<p>The second-largest sector in 2019 was infrastructure which had a 17.3% share of all contracts awarded. However, this is 2.0% lower than in 2018. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/construction-contracts-june\/59682\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">largest overall infrastructure project<\/a> awarded during 2019 was the \u00a31.5bn Sellafield SRP Process Facility.<\/p>\n<p>The sector accounting for the third-largest share of contracts awarded in 2019 was commercial &amp; retail with share of 12.7%, which is 0.5% lower than for 2018. The largest office award was the \u00a3400m Paddington Square \u2013 Paddington Cube in London.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-70680 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Screenshot-2020-01-24-at-09.31.39-300x258.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"421\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Screenshot-2020-01-24-at-09.31.39-300x258.png 300w, https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Screenshot-2020-01-24-at-09.31.39-768x661.png 768w, https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Screenshot-2020-01-24-at-09.31.39-1024x882.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Screenshot-2020-01-24-at-09.31.39-696x599.png 696w, https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Screenshot-2020-01-24-at-09.31.39-1068x920.png 1068w, https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Screenshot-2020-01-24-at-09.31.39-488x420.png 488w, https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Screenshot-2020-01-24-at-09.31.39-610x525.png 610w, https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Screenshot-2020-01-24-at-09.31.39.png 1122w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Uncertainty throughout the industry<\/h3>\n<p>Tom Hall, chief economist at Barbour ABI and AMA Research said: \u201cAs we saw throughout 2019, development figures flatlined and a yearly round-up shows similar levels to 2018.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With the date for the UK to leave the EU less than two weeks away and the future of HS2 hanging in the balance, uncertainty continues to engulf the construction industry.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"mk-custom-module-container\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Construction contract awards continued the downward trend of recent years in 2019, as Brexit uncertainty and HS2 doubts consume the industry, according to Barbour ABI.<\/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":[825,24813,676,908,658,283,473,579,947,639],"stakeholder_rel_tag":[],"contributor_rel_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-70671","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-planning-construction-news","7":"tag-barbour-abi","8":"tag-building-contracts","9":"tag-construction","10":"tag-economy","11":"tag-electrical-contractors","12":"tag-finance","13":"tag-hs2","14":"tag-infrastructure","15":"tag-london","16":"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>Construction contract awards remain stable for 2019<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Construction contract awards continued the downward trend of recent years in 2019, as Brexit uncertainty and HS2 doubts consume the industry\" \/>\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-contract-awards-2019\/70671\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Construction contract awards remain stable for 2019\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Construction contract awards continued the downward trend of recent years in 2019, as Brexit uncertainty and HS2 doubts consume the industry\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/construction-contract-awards-2019\/70671\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Planning, Building &amp; 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