THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1991
ON THE
HAND,
VALUE
CONSTRUCTION
OF OTHER
THE GROSS PERFORMED BY SPECIAL TRADE CONTRACTORS WAS $1,146 MILLION, WHICH 8.4% HIGHER THAN IN THE PRECEDING QUARTER BUT REMAINED THE SAME AS THE SECOND QUARTER OF 1990.
WORK WAS IN
BY GENERAL RELATED
or THE GROSS VALUE OF CONSTRUCTION WORK PERFORMED CONTRACTORS IN THE SECOND QUARTER OF 1991, $7,924 MILLION WAS TO NEW CONSTRUCTION WORK AT PRIVATE SECTOR CONSTRUCTION SITES.
THIS WAS HIGHER THAN IN THE PRECEDING QUARTER AND IN THE SECOND QUARTER OF 1990 BY 4.5% AND 14.2% RESPECTIVELY.
WORK AT SOME $3,824 MILLION WAS RELATED TO NEW CONSTRUCTION
MASS TRANSIT RAILWAY PUBLIC SECTOR (INCLUDING THE GOVERNMENT, CORPORATION AND KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY CORPORATION) CONSTRUCTION SITES, REPRESENTING DECREASES OF 1.8% AND 2.0% WHEN COMPARED WITH PRECEDING QUARTER AND THE SECOND QUARTER OF 1990
RESPECTIVELY.
WORK
THE REMAINING $2,919 MILLION WAS RELATED TO AT MINOR WORK LOCATIONS, AND ERECTED BUILDINGS AND STRUCTURES.
NEW CONSTRUCTION
RENOVATION
AND
MAINTENANCE
AT
THIS WAS 6.4% AND 0.5% RESPECTIVELY LOWER THAN IN THE PRECEDING QUARTER AND IN THE SECOND QUARTER OF 1990.
VALUE
WHEN ANALYSED BY END-USE OF BUILDINGS AND STRUCTURES, THE. GROSS AT BY MAIN CONTRACTORS OF CONSTRUCTION WORK PERFORMED
BUILDINGS (INCLUDING CONSTRUCTION SITES IN RESPECT OF RESIDENTIAL
IN THE SECOND COMBINED RESIDENTIAL AND NON-RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS) QUARTER OF 1991 WAS $4,786 MILLION.
WITH THE
THIS REPRESENTED AN INCREASE OF 2.5% WHEN COMPARED PRECEDING QUARTER BUT A DECREASE OF 0.9% WHEN COMPARED WITH THE SECOND QUARTER OF 1990.
WORK OVER THE SAME PERIOD, THE GROSS VALUE OF CONSTRUCTION
RESPECT OF PERFORMED BY MAIN CONTRACTORS AT CONSTRUCTION SITES COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS IN THE SECOND QUARTER OF 1991 WAS $2,162 MILLION,
WHEN COMPARED INCREASES OF REPRESENTING
2.1% AND 13.3% PRECEDING QUARTER AND THE SECOND QUARTER OF 1990 RESPECTIVELY.
WITH THE
MAIN IN
BY PERFORMED THE GROSS VALUE OF CONSTRUCTION WORK CONTRACTORS AT CONSTRUCTION SITES IN RESPECT OF TRANSPORT PROJECTS THE SECOND QUARTER OF 1991 WAS $1,505 MILLION, WHICH WAS 3.9% AND 1.5% HIGHER THAN IN THE PRECEDING QUARTER AND THE SECOND QUARTER
RESPECTIVELY.
OWING TO THE
OF 1990
PRACTICE IN THE BE A MAIN CONTRACT
SUB-CONTRACTING WIDESPREAD CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY, A CONSTRUCTION ESTABLISHMENT CAN CONTRACTOR FOR ONE CONTRACT AND A SUB-CONTRACTOR FOR ANOTHER SIMULTANEOUSLY.
THE GROSS
WORK PERFORMED BY MAIN OR SPECIAL TRADE
OF CONSTRUCTION VALUE OF CONTRACTORS (WHICH MAY BE
MAY BE GENERAL CONTRACTORS CONTRACTORS) REFERS TO THE OUTPUT OF THOSE CONSTRUCTION ESTABLISHMENTS IN THE PROJECTS IN WHICH THEY TAKE THE ROLE OF A MAIN CONTRACTOR, DOES NOT INCLUDE THE CONSTRUCTION OUTPUT OF PROJECTS IN PLAY THE ROLE OF SUB-CONTRACTORS.
AND
WHICH THEY
/HOWEVER, SUB-CONTRACTORS'
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