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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1991

NEW CONSTRUCTION

MAINTENANCE

AT

THE REMAINING $3,029 MILLION WAS RELATED TO WORK AT MINOR

AND WORK LOCATIONS,

AND RENOVATION ERECTED BUILDINGS AND STRUCTURES. THIS WAS 3.2 PER CENT AND 69.6 PER CENT

THAN IN THE PRECEDING QUARTER AND THE THIRD HIGHER 1989 RESPECTIVELY.

VALUE

QUARTER OF

WHEN ANALYSED BY END-USE OF BUILDINGS AND STRUCTURES, THE GROS8 OF CONSTRUCTION WORK PERFORMED BY MAIN CONTRACTORS AT

SITES IN RESPECT OF CONSTRUCTION

RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS (INCLUDING COMBINED RESIDENTIAL AND NON-RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS) QUARTER OF 1990 WAS $4,907 MILLION.

THE IN

THIRD

PER CENT THIS REPRESENTED INCREASES OF 1.6 PER CENT AND 19.4 WHEN COMPARED WITH THE PRECEDING QUARTER AND THE THIRD QUARTER OF 1989 RESPECTIVELY.

OVER THE SAME PERIOD, THE GROSS VALUE OF CONSTRUCTION WORK

IN PERFORMED

RESPECT OF MAIN CONTRACTORS AT CONSTRUCTION SITES BY COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS IN THE THIRD QUARTER OF 1990 WAS $2,118 MILLION,

INCREASES REPRESENTING

PER OF 10.9 PER CENT AND 60.6

CENT OF QUARTER COMPARED WITH THE PRECEDING QUARTER AND THE THIRD RESPECTIVELY.

WHEN

1989

MAIN

IN

CENT THAN IN

GROSS THE

VALUE OF CONSTRUCTION WORK PERFORMED BY CONTRACTORS AT CONSTRUCTION SITES IN RESPECT OF TRANSPORT PROJECTS THE THIRD QUARTER OF 1990 WAS $1,570 MILLION, WHICH WAS 5.9 PER HIGHER THAN IN THE PRECEDING QUARTER BUT 5.4 PER CENT LOWER THE THIRD QUARTER OF 1989.

OWING

ΤΟ

THE INDUSTRY,

WIDESPREAD

SUB-CONTRACTING

PRACTICE

IN

THE MAIN CONTRACT

A A CONSTRUCTION ESTABLISHMENT CAN BE CONSTRUCTION CONTRACTOR FOR ONE CONTRACT AND A SUB-CONTRACTOR FOR ANOTHER SIMULTANEOUSLY.

THE

MAIN

TRADE

GROSS VALUE OF CONSTRUCTION WORK PERFORMED BY CONTRACTORS (WHICH MAY BE GENERAL CONTRACTORS OR SPECIAL CONTRACTORS) REFERS TO THE OUTPUT OF THOSE CONSTRUCTION ESTABLISHMENTS IN THE PROJECTS IN WHICH THEY TAKE THE ROLE OF A MAIN CONTRACTOR,

WHICH THEY DOES NOT INCLUDE THE CONSTRUCTION OUTPUT OF PROJECTS IN PLAY THE ROLE OF SUB-CONTRACTORS.

AND

HAVE

HOWEVER, SUB-CONTRACTORS' CONTRIBUTION TO PROJECTS SHOULD BEEN INCLUDED IN THE GROSS VALUE OF CONSTRUCTION WORK PERFORMED BY THE MAIN CONTRACTORS FOR WHOM THEY WORKED.

MORE DETAILED STATISTICS ON CONSTRUCTION OUTPUT ARE THE "REPORT

CONSTRUCTION OUTPUT, ON THE QUARTERLY SURVEY OF QUARTER 1990".

GIVEN IN THIRD

THE GOVERNMENT CONNAUGHT PLACE,

REPORT IS NOW ON SALE AT $2.50 A COPY AT THE

CENTRE, PUBLICATIONS

GROUND FLOOR, OPO BUILDING, CENTRAL OR AT THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT PUBLICATIONS COUNTER, WANCHAI TOWER I, 19TH FLOOR, 12 HARBOUR ROAD, WAN CHAI,

REGULAR SUBSCRIPTION MAY ALSO BE ARRANGED.

SALES

ENQUIRIES

DIRECTED TO

FURTHER FOR

INFORMATION ABOUT THE

REAL ESTATE

SURVEY MAY

STATISTICS

BE

THE BUILDING, CONSTRUCTION AND SECTION OF THE CENSUS AND STATISTICS DEPARTMENT ON TEL. 839 3265.

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