MONDAY, MAY 4, 1992
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CONSTRUCTION OUTPUT STATISTICS FOR 4TH QUARTER OF 1991
TO
PERFORMED BY MAIN THE GROSS VALUE OF CONSTRUCTION WORK
TRADE CONTRACTORS, CONTRACTORS, INCLUDING BOTH GENERAL AND SPECIAL AMOUNTED TO $16.9 BILLION IN THE FOURTH QUARTER OF 1991, ACCORDING THE RESULTS OF THE QUARTERLY SURVEY OF CONSTRUCTION TODAY (MONDAY) BY THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT.
PRECEDING QUARTER,
OUTPUT RELEASED
THE GROSS VALUE OF COMPARED WITH THE CONSTRUCTION WORK PERFORMED BY MAIN CONTRACTORS WAS 7.4% HIGHER IN THE FOURTH QUARTER OF 1991.
COMPARED WITH THE SAME QUARTER IN 1990, IT WAS 0.2% HIGHER.
FOURTH THE RISE IN THE GROSS VALUE OF CONSTRUCTION WORK IN THE
LARGELY DUE ΤΟ A QUARTER OF 1991 OVER THE PRECEDING QUARTER WAS
AT CONTRACTORS GREATER AMOUNT OF WORK CONSTRUCTION SITES.
PERFORMED
BY GENERAL
THE GROSS VALUE OF SUCH WORK DONE AT PRIVATE SITES INCREASED BY 10.8% OVER THE PRECEDING QUARTER TO $8.9 BILLION; AND AT PUBLIC SITES, BY 7.7% TO $4.0 BILLION.
THE GROSS VALUE OF CONSTRUCTION WORK PERFORMED BY SPECIAL TRADE CONTRACTORS ALSO INCREASED, BY 7.3% OVER THE PRECEDING QUARTER TO $1.3 BILLION IN THE FOURTH QUARTER OF 1991.
PERFORMED THE PRECEDING
ON THE OTHER HAND, THE GROSS VALUE OF NON-SITE WORK BY GENERAL CONTRACTORS CONTINUED TO FALL BY 2.3% OVER QUARTER TO $2.8 BILLION IN THE FOURTH QUARTER OF 1991.
RELATING ΤΟ THOSE RESIDENTIAL BUILDING PROJECTS, INCLUDING
BUILDINGS, ACCOUNTED FOR THE COMBINED RESIDENTIAL/NON-RESIDENTIAL GREATEST PORTION OF CONSTRUCTION SITE WORK PERFORMED.
THE GROSS VALUE OF WORK PERFORMED IN THE FOURTH QUARTER OF 1991 WAS $5.1 BILLION.
ALTHOUGH THIS FIGURE WAS STILL 3.6% LOWER THAN A YEAR AGO, SHOWED A SUBSTANTIAL RISE OF 5.0% OVER THE PRECEDING QUARTER.
IT
CONSTRUCTION WORK ON COMMERCIAL BUILDING PROJECTS IN THE FOURTH COMPARED HIGH QUARTER OF 1991, WITH A TOTAL VALUE AT $2.7 BILLION,
YEAR WITH BOTH THE PRECEDING QUARTER (+28.2%) AND THE SAME QUARTER A AGO (+23.9%).
THE
CATEGORY OF CONSTRUCTION SITE WORK.
BUILDING PROJECTS FORMED COMMERCIAL
THE SECOND LARGEST
OTHER ON THE
WAS DECREASE TRANSPORT PROJECTS, WHICH ACCOUNTED FOR THE THIRD LARGEST CATEGORY CONSTRUCTION SITE WORK.
A CONTINUED HAND,
RECORDED IN
OF
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