Infrastructure booms as commercial work remains in doldrums

By Will Ing2019-04-10T11:45:00

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Overall activity in February up on the month before

Different parts of the industry are continuing to pull apart in their rate of growth according to the latest construction output figures published by the Office for National Statistics.

The amount of construction activity increased by 0.4% in February from the month before, while the ONS revised its 2018 annual growth rate for the industry down to 0.3% from 0.7%.

Construction shrunk during the three months to 28 February, compared with the September-November period predceding it.

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