{"id":7594,"date":"2025-09-04T11:46:41","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T11:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/?p=7594"},"modified":"2025-09-04T11:46:41","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T11:46:41","slug":"another-bad-month-for-construction-buyers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/another-bad-month-for-construction-buyers\/","title":{"rendered":"Another bad month for construction buyers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Construction buyers reported another fall in indusry activity in August – the eighth month in a row workloads have dropped.<\/p>\n

But the bellwether S&P Global UK Construction Purchasing Managers\u2019 Index showed a slowdown in the decline registering 45.5 in August, up from 44.3 in July but still well below the neutral 50.0 value.<\/p>\n

A slower reduction in commercial building (index at 47.8) helped to offset steeper declines in residential (44.2) and civil engineering activity (38.1).<\/p>\n

Civil engineering was the weakest-performing segment in August, with business activity decreasing at the fastest pace since October 2020.<\/p>\n

Survey respondents again commented on a lack of new projects to replace completed work.<\/p>\n

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Total new orders across the construction sector decreased for the eighth month running in August, although the rate of decline eased to the least marked since January.<\/p>\n

Tim Moore, Economics Director at S&P Global Market Intelligence, said: “Construction activity has decreased throughout the year- to-date, which is the longest continuous downturn since early-2020. August data signalled only a partial easing in the speed of decline after output fell at the fastest pace for over five years in July.<\/p>\n

“Sharply reduced levels of housing and civil engineering activity were again the main reasons for a weak overall construction sector performance. Commercial work showed some resilience in August, with the downturn the least marked for three months.<\/p>\n

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“There were some positive signals on the supply side as vendors’ delivery times shortened, subcontractor availability improved and purchasing price inflation hit a ten-month low. However, easing supply conditions mostly reflected subdued demand and a lack of new projects.<\/p>\n

“Elevated business uncertainty and worries about broader prospects for the UK economy meant that construction sector optimism weakened in August. The proportion of panel members expecting a rise in output over the year ahead was 34%, down from 37% in July and lower than at any time since December 2022.”<\/p>\n

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from Construction Enquirer https:\/\/ift.tt\/NJBET8x<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Construction buyers reported another fall in indusry activity in August – the eighth month in a row workloads have dropped. But the bellwether S&P Global UK Construction Purchasing Managers\u2019 Index showed a slowdown in the decline registering 45.5 in August, up from 44.3 in July but still well below the neutral 50.0 value. A slower […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":148,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-7594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-construction-enquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7594"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7595,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7594\/revisions\/7595"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}