UK Construction Hotspots REPORT 2020

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REGION FOCUS… Hotspots in Great Britain 2020 East of North East A forward-looking analysis of construction North West Scotland activity by region and by sector. South East South West Wales West Midlands BROUGHT TO YOU BY… Yorkshire & Humber

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BROUGHT TO YOU BY UK Construction INTRODUCTION… Hotspots About Barbour ABI and the CPA REPORT 2020 To navigate just click on buttons below and they will take you directly to your chosen section. Home Introduction Barbour ABI is a leading provider of construction intelligence services. With a team of in-house research The Construction Products Association is the leading organisation that represents and champions construction Overview specialists and a dedicated chief economist, it provides commercially relevant insight and unique analysis of product manufacturers and suppliers. This vital UK industry defines our built environment, providing the Key regional hotspots trends and developments within the building and construction industry. products and materials needed for homes, offices, shops, road, railways, schools and hospitals. Our industry directly provides jobs for 373,000 people across 24,000 companies and has an annual turnover of £61 billion. Key regional coldspots Our dedicated construction companies database is flexible to your needs. We gather the intelligence you need to target decision makers, at the precise moment they require your services. We are proud to play a part in REGION FOCUS… significantly increasing the amount of new business won for clients across the UK. We provide our members with unique expertise and support, including: East of England Barbour ABI is the chosen provider of Construction New Orders estimates data to the ONS, and partner of the • tracking and advising on government policies • representing our members across industry-wide East Midlands and regulations organisations and events HM Government Infrastructure and Projects Authority in providing the National Infrastructure and Construction London Pipeline, which outlines future construction and infrastructure projects where public funding is agreed. • engaging policy makers to develop effective, • producing authoritative economic, technical North East evidence-based policies and solutions and sustainability commentary and publications North West • driving consensus with members and the wider We provide data for all sectors, including: Scotland construction industry on major issues • Residential • Industrial South East • Infrastructure • Medical & health South West The CPA produces a range of economic reports that provide our members, policy-makers, and wider industry • Commercial & retail • Education with a detailed understanding of the construction market to facilitate planning and business development. Wales • Hotel, leisure & sport Members of the Association are entitled to receive these insights at no additional cost. Non-members can make West Midlands one off purchases or subscribe for a full information package. Yorkshire & Humber

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BROUGHT TO YOU BY UK Construction OVERVIEW… Hotspots The UK Construction Industry REPORT 2020 To navigate just click on buttons London is the UK’s largest regional economy and construction gross that there are large areas of activity beyond the traditional engines below and they will take you directly Construction GVA in 2018 £m value added (GVA) in 2018 (the latest available from of growth (see fig. 1.2). to your chosen section. London 20,527 the ONS) was £20.5 billion, accounting for Home This piece of work seeks to analyse construction contract awards South East 18,350 17.7% of the UK construction total (see fig. Introduction at a high level of regional granularity, firstly to identify pockets East of England 14,592 1.1). With a construction GVA of £18.4 of growth or contraction – hotspots and coldspots – in Overview billion, the South East accounts for a North West 10,807 regional activity and secondly, to offer a forward-looking Key regional hotspots similar proportion of UK construction South West 9,604 indication of growth by region and by sector. One of the Key regional coldspots (15.8%). Given the relative size of the Scotland 8,592 challenges in using such granular data is the large lags in London and South East economies, West Midlands 8,548 reporting of official output data, as evidenced by the most REGION FOCUS… populations and concentration of the 7,620 East of England services-based industry, it is easy to think East Midlands 7,428 that the majority of construction work is taking East Midlands London was still the UK’s largest regional Wales 4,010 place in these regions. London economy and construction gross value North East 3,083 By using ONS regional economic data, it North East added (GVA) in 2018 at £20.5 billion FIG 1.1 becomes clear that despite its overall dominance, North West Source: ONS there were only three London sub-regions in the Scotland top ten largest local authority areas for construction recent macroeconomic data published Construction GVA in 2018 – Top 10 £m Region South East activity in 2018: Camden and City of London, Harrow and by the ONS being for 2018. By using data Hertfordshire 3,991 East of England South West Hillingdon, and Westminster. Similarly, two sub-regions on contract awards over 2019, this will Camden and City of London 2,195 London Wales highlight construction work ahead, West Surrey 2,149 South East rather than reporting on activity West Midlands Yet again, Hertfordshire recorded the is past periods that may Berkshire 1,731 South East Yorkshire & Humber largest value of construction activity with not be relevant. Economic Harrow and Hillingdon 1,631 London CASE STUDY… nearly £4 billion in 2018 developments this year have Staffordshire CC 1,606 West Midlands ★ been unprecedented and 1,598 West Midlands Covid-19 and Construction this year’s special focus uses Westminster 1,570 London in the South East feature in this ranking. However, it Barbour ABI’s project tracking Bath and NE Somerset, N Somerset 1,564 South West Methodology is Hertfordshire, in the East of England, that remains as data to analyse how progress and S Gloucestershire the sub-region with the largest value of construction on projects underway has been Suffolk 1,558 East of England activity in 2018. The West Midlands and South West affected by disruption related FIG 1.2 complete the top ten list, underscoring the fact to coronavirus. Source: ONS BROUGHT TO YOU BY

CONTINUED UK Construction CONTINUED…THE UK CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY Hotspots REPORT 2020 What is a hotspot or a coldspot? There are clear hotspots for upcoming construction activity over the next 6-12 months in Great Britain. Falkirk was the only broad hotspot in To navigate just click on buttons Hotspots and coldspots seek to identify regions where contract awards 2019 – where contract awards in each of the three main construction below and they will take you directly in 2019 were significantly above or below previous years, highlighting to your chosen section. pockets of activity or contraction in construction activity over the near- Home term horizon. West Cumbria recorded the largest growth in contract Introduction As discussed, some regions of the country host more construction awards in 2019, with an increase of 580%, plus also Overview activity than others. was in the top 10 largest regions in terms managed the runners up spot for the value of contract Key regional hotspots of the value of contracts awarded in 2019. However, this was 23% below awards with £1.7 million the value of contracts awarded in the previous year and in line with the Key regional coldspots long-term average, so whilst it is a large source of construction work, it is REGION FOCUS… not a hotspot region (see fig. 1.3). sectors of residential, commercial and infrastructure are significantly East of England Large growth rates or contractions themselves do not necessarily signify a above the long-term average. Where hotspots were restricted to a single East Midlands hotspot or coldspot, which is a key consideration for regions hosting small construction sector, they were spread across the regions of Great Britain. London volumes of construction work, where growth rates on annual basis can be Construction hotspots may also show due to a single large project in one volatile (see fig. 1.4 & 1.5). sector (see fig. 1.6). Although these may be viewed as skewing results, North East North West Scotland South East The value of contract awards in 2019 – Top 10 £m Annual % change Growth in contract awards in 2019 – Top 10 £m Annual % change ▲ South West Westminster 2,392 32% West Cumbria 1,678 580% Wales West Cumbria 1,678 580% Falkirk 271 562% West Midlands Tower Hamlets 1,512 17% Breckland and South Norfolk 646 530% Yorkshire & Humber and Southwark 1,234 160% Lambeth 619 517%

Central Hampshire 1,167 239% Bridgend and Neath Port Talbot 125 269% CASE STUDY… 1,128 30% Central Hampshire 1,167 239% Covid-19 and Construction Hertfordshire 1,117 25% South Teesside 239 219% ▼

Manchester 1,114 -23% 293 183% Methodology Birmingham 1,041 13% South 303 180%

Somerset 1,006 53% Isle of Anglesey 43 170%

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CONTINUED UK Construction CONTINUED…THE UK CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY Hotspots REPORT 2020 they still represent a significant driver of regional growth and activity Construction coldspots also feature across Great Britain and across the Falls in contract awards in 2019 – Top 10 £m Annual % change and were a key driver of hotspots throughout the country. These tend to three main construction sectors, although there were fewer coldspots To navigate just click on buttons Luton 26 -93% be high-value transport or utilities projects in the infrastructure sector than hotspots across residential, commercial and infrastructure. There below and they will take you directly Inverness & Nairn and Moray, Badenoch 267 -88% to your chosen section. where contracts are awarded, but take time to build out. In smaller were no coldspots in Wales. & Strathspey Home sub-regions, single, large offices, retail and residential projects can also Dudley 45 -86% generate hotspots. Bromley 43 -80% Introduction

Shetland Islands 7 -76% Overview Key regional hotspots Despite being 2nd and 3rd last year, both Inverness & Nairn and Moray, Badenoch Telford and Wrekin 58 -72% 707 -71% Key regional coldspots & Strathspey and Dudley recorded falls in contract awards in 2019 with decreases of 88% and 86% respectively Lincolnshire East Ayrshire and North Ayrshire mainland 84 -69% REGION FOCUS… Isle of Wight 27 -65%

Perth & Kinross and Stirling 169 -61% East of England

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Top 10 highest value contracts in 2019 £m Area North West

Commercial projects Sellafield – SPRS retreatment 1,500 West Cumbria Scotland

in Westminster, Tower Fawley Refinery upgrades 800 Central Hampshire South East Hamlets and Lewisham Paddington Cube 400 Westminster South West and Southwark meant 10 Bank Street 400 Tower Hamlets Wales London dominated the Manchester Town Hall redevelopment 330 Manchester West Midlands top 10 highest value Borough Yards 300 Lewisham and Southwark Yorkshire & Humber contracts, with these Parkside – plots B & D 276 Wandsworth three projects alone London Hilton Park Lane 270 Westminster CASE STUDY… totalling £1.1 billion HMP Wellingborough 253 North Covid-19 and Construction A303 Sparkford to Ilchester dualling 250 Somerset

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BROUGHT TO YOU BY UK Construction EXECUTIVE SUMMARY… Hotspots Key Regional Hotspots by Sector REPORT 2020 To navigate just click on buttons A summary of key regional hotspots by sector is shown here. below and they will take you directly to your chosen section. North East West Midlands South East Wales Home Darlington Commercial Sandwell Residential Residential Central Valleys Residential and Hove Commercial Introduction Shropshire CC Commercial Flintshire and Wrexham Residential North West East Kent Residential Overview Solihull Infrastructure Gwent Valleys Commercial Blackburn with Darwen Commercial East Sussex CC Residential Key regional hotspots Stoke-on-Trent Residential Residential Gwynedd Cheshire East Infrastructure Kent Thames Gateway Infrastructure Infrastructure Key regional coldspots Walsall Commercial Greater Manchester North West Residential North Hampshire Infrastructure Isle of Anglesey Commercial REGION FOCUS… Greater Manchester South East Residential East of England Infrastructure Monmouthshire and Newport Residential

Sefton Infrastructure Residential Southampton Commercial Residential East of England Breckland and South Norfolk Swansea Infrastructure Infrastructure Warrington Residential West Surrey Residential East Midlands Central Bedfordshire Residential Residential Residential Cumbria West Sussex (South West) Scotland Infrastructure Heart of Essex Infrastructure Commercial Dumfries and Galloway Commercial North East Residential Hertfordshire Residential Wirral Infrastructure South West East Dunbartonshire, North West Luton Commercial West Dunbartonshire and Residential Bournemouth and Poole Residential Helensburgh & Lomond Scotland Peterborough Infrastructure Yorkshire & Humber Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Commercial Residential South East Southend-on-Sea Commercial Eilean Siar (Western Isles) East Riding of Yorkshire Infrastructure Infrastructure Devon CC Residential South West Thurrock Infrastructure Kingston upon Hull Commercial Residential Plymouth Residential Wales West Essex Infrastructure Falkirk Commercial Leeds Residential Somerset Residential Infrastructure West Midlands North Yorkshire CC Infrastructure City Commercial London Yorkshire & Humber York Commercial Inverclyde, East Renfrewshire and Barking & Dagenham and Havering Residential Infrastructure Renfrewshire Barnet Residential CASE STUDY… East Midlands Lochaber, Skye & Lochalsh, Arran Residential Commercial & Cumbrae and Argyll & Bute Covid-19 and Construction East Commercial Enfield Scottish Borders Commercial Residential Hackney and Newham Infrastructure North Northamptonshire Infrastructure Kensington & Chelsea and Hammersmith South Ayrshire Infrastructure Methodology Residential Commercial & Fulham Nottingham South Lanarkshire Residential Infrastructure Lambeth Commercial Residential South Nottinghamshire Lewisham and Southwark Commercial Infrastructure Tower Hamlets Infrastructure BROUGHT TO YOU BY Nottingham Infrastructure Wandsworth Residential UK Construction EXECUTIVE SUMMARY… Hotspots Key Regional Coldspots by Sector REPORT 2020 To navigate just click on buttons A summary of key regional coldspots by sector is shown here. below and they will take you directly to your chosen section. North East East Midlands South East Wales Home Durham CC Residential Derby Commercial East Surrey Residential No coldspots Introduction South Teesside Commercial CC and Rutland Residential Medway Residential Scotland Overview Tyneside Residential Southampton Residential West Midlands City of Edinburgh Residential Key regional hotspots Oxfordshire Commercial North West Coventry Residential East Ayrshire and North Ayrshire Commercial Key regional coldspots West Surrey Commercial mainland Infrastructure Blackburn with Darwen Residential Dudley Residential Brighton and Hove Infrastructure Glasgow City Infrastructure REGION FOCUS… Cheshire East Residential Staffordshire CC Residential Isle of Wight Infrastructure Inverclyde, East Renfrewshire and Manchester Residential Wolverhampton Infrastructure Commercial East of England West Kent Residential Renfrewshire East Midlands Lancaster and Wyre Commercial Inverness & Nairn and Moray, Residential East of England Badenoch & Strathspey South West London Yorkshire & Humber Luton Residential North Lanarkshire Residential Bath and North East Somerset, North North East Residential Calderdale & Kirklees Residential Somerset and South Gloucestershire Norwich and East Norfolk Residential North West Residential Commercial Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Infrastructure Scotland London Plymouth Commercial South East Brent Residential South West Hounslow and Richmond upon Thames Residential Wales Camden and City of London Commercial

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BROUGHT TO YOU BY UK Construction FOCUS ON… Hotspots East of England REPORT 2020 To navigate just click on buttons below and they will take you directly The East of England region accounts for 8.6% of total UK GVA GVA per GVA growth Construction Unemployment Construction Construction Contracts Awards and key sectors of regional economic activity are industrial head 2013-2018 % of GVA rate GVA (2018) Growth (2018) Growth (2019) to your chosen section. production and manufacturing, distribution and transport, public UK Average 28,729 20.0% 6.1% 3.9 115,978 3.3% 0.5% Home administration and business services. Construction accounted East of England 26,540 25.7% 8.9% 3.2 14,592 5.4% 10.0% Introduction for 8.9% of total East of England GVA in 2018 and grew 5.4% in Peterborough 32,864 39.2% 4.3% 6.0 282 -0.7% 15.8% Overview that year, marking the fastest regional growth rate. The value Cambridgeshire CC 30,564 24.7% 6.2% 2.6 1,231 6.2% -3.3% Key regional hotspots of contracts awarded in the region totalled £5.7 billion in 2019, Suffolk 24,726 15.1% 8.3% 2.3 1,558 8.0% -30.4% an increase of 10.0% from the previous year. There were three Key regional coldspots Norwich and East Norfolk 25,311 16.0% 5.9% 4.8 554 12.6% 59.5% hotspots in terms of overall contract awards: Breckland and North and West Norfolk 17,928 12.0% 6.9% 3.7 317 2.3% 72.8% REGION FOCUS… South Norfolk, Hertfordshire and West Essex. Bedford and Luton Breckland and South Norfolk 18,104 16.8% 9.4% 2.7 470 -9.1% 529.8% were coldspots based on overall contract awards. East of England Luton 28,479 32.5% 6.5% 4.9 394 22.4% -92.6% East Midlands Hertfordshire 34,403 32.2% 9.8% 3.5 3,991 5.7% 24.6% London 24,653 28.1% 7.8% 3.2 331 11.1% -33.0% Bedford North East Breckland and South Norfolk left everyone Central Bedfordshire 23,208 35.0% 10.2% 1.1 671 10.9% -31.0% North West standing, recording the largest growth in Southend-on-Sea 16,352 16.1% 7.9% 3.8 236 1.3% -21.3% Scotland contracts awarded in 2019, increasing by 529.8% Thurrock 23,829 38.9% 9.3% 5.4 381 11.4% 50.0% South East Essex Haven Gateway 19,687 30.5% 9.3% 4.0 899 -2.5% 11.0% South West West Essex 27,987 29.5% 12.3% 3.7 1,058 -2.0% 117.7% Wales Heart of Essex 28,756 25.5% 15.8% 0.9 1,444 9.1% 36.4% West Midlands Essex Thames Gateway 22,575 17.6% 9.5% 2.4 775 4.9% 26.6% Yorkshire & Humber Source: Barbour ABI, CPA, ONS

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CONTINUED UK Construction FOCUS ON…EAST OF ENGLAND HEAT SCALE -5 -4 -3 -2 -1 0 1 2 3 4 5 Hotspots REPORT 2020 Residential Commercial Infrastructure To navigate just click on buttons £2.1 billion worth of residential contracts were Commercial contract awards totalled £377 million in 2019, Contract awards for infrastructure projects in the East below and they will take you directly awarded in the East of England in 2019, 27.7% higher one-third lower than in 2018. Hotspots for commercial activity of England totalled £1.2 billion in 2019, which was 12.0% to your chosen section. than the value awarded in 2018. Breckland and South were Luton and Southend-on-Sea. There were no coldspots, lower than the value awarded in 2018. Breckland and Home Norfolk, Central Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire were although contract awards in the other sub-regions were below South Norfolk, Heart of Essex, Peterborough, Thurrock and Introduction hotspots. Luton and Norwich and East long-term averages. The top three contract West Essex were hotspots. There were no Norfolk were coldspots. awards were all in Hertfordshire. coldspots. Improvements to the A47 Overview

NORWICH NORWICH accounted for half of the top NORWICH Key regional hotspots PETERBOROUGH PETERBOROUGH ten contract awards. PETERBOROUGH Key regional coldspots

ELY ELY ELY REGION FOCUS… East of England CAMBRIDGE CAMBRIDGE CAMBRIDGE East Midlands London North East ST ALBANS ST ALBANS ST ALBANS COLCHESTER COLCHESTER COLCHESTER North West Scotland South East South West TOP TOP TOP Residential Contracts Commercial Contracts Infrastructure Contracts Wales The top 10 residential contracts by value of project. The top 10 commercial contracts by value of project. The top 10 infrastructure contracts by value of project. 10 10 10 West Midlands

Project Units Value Start Finish Project Type Value Start Finish Project Value Start Finish Yorkshire & Humber

Newfound Farm, Cringleford 650 £65m Jun 19 Jun 27 Gresham House, Clarendon Road Offices £28.5m Oct 19 Oct 21 A47 North Tuddenham to Easton £250m Apr 21 May 23 Upper Thorn Green, Bedfordshire 625 £62.5m Sep 19 Sep 24 Airbus central office building Offices £20m Aug 19 Aug 21 London Stansted Airport – Arrivals terminal £150m Apr 19 Jun 20 CASE STUDY… Ascot Road, Watford - £50.8m Jan 19 Jan 21 CTS Data Centre – fit out Offices £20m - - Great Yarmouth Third River Crossing £120m Oct 20 Oct 22 Covid-19 and Construction Mayfield Care Community, Watford 253 £50m Jun 19 Dec 20 Alwalton Hill, Peterborough Offices £19m Mar 18 Oct 18 A47 Wansford to Sutton £100m Jan 21 Jul 22 Hazelend Road, Hertforshire 260 £42m Jan 20 Jan 25 Segro Logistics Park, Purfleet Offices £19m Oct 19 Jul 20 A47 Blofield & North Burlingham dualling £100m Dec 21 Dec 22 Methodology Bishops Stortford Goods Yard - £40m Oct 18 Oct 23 East Anglia One – O&M Building Offices £15m - - Tilbury 2 Port Terminal – terrestrial works £65m Mar 19 Mar 21 Rivermead Chelmsford students 315 £37.8m - - Daedalus House, 30 Station Road Offices £15m Jul 19 Mar 21 A47/A11 Thickthorn junction improvement £61m Apr 21 Oct 23 Salhouse Road, Norwich 366 £36.6m Jan 20 - CTS Data Centre – shell and core Offices £10m Mar 19 - A120 bypass (Little Hadham) & flood alleviation £28m Jun 19 Dec 24 Oaklands College redevelopment 348 £34m Oct 18 Oct 23 DSV Road Limited – fit out works Offices £10m Jul 19 Sep 20 Tilbury 2 Port expansion – marine works £25m Mar 19 Sep 20 Wymondham Rugby Club, Norwich Common 300 £30m Jan 20 - Primark, Southend-On-Sea Retail £10m Nov 19 Jun 20 A47/A141 Guyhirn junction £25m Oct 20 Sep 24 BROUGHT TO YOU BY

Source: Barbour ABI, CPA Source: Barbour ABI, CPA Source: Barbour ABI, CPA UK Construction FOCUS ON… Hotspots East Midlands REPORT 2020 To navigate just click on buttons below and they will take you directly The East Midlands region accounts for 5.7% of total UK GVA. Key GVA per GVA growth Construction Unemployment Construction Construction Contracts Awards sectors of regional economic activity are industrial production head 2013-2018 % of GVA rate GVA (2018) Growth (2018) Growth (2019) to your chosen section. and manufacturing, business services, public administration UK Average 28,729 20.0% 6.1% 3.9 115,978 3.3% 0.5% Home and distribution and transport. Construction gross value added East Midlands 22,682 17.4% 6.8% 3.7 7,428 4.6% -20.2% Introduction grew 4.6% in 2018 and accounted for 6.8% of regional GVA. The Derby 27,751 9.7% 4.6% 4.1 331 0.3% 4.7% Overview value of contracts awarded in the region totalled £4.4 billion in East Derbyshire 20,136 23.9% 6.4% 4.6 365 5.5% 36.8% Key regional hotspots 2019, a decrease of 20.2% from the previous year. In terms of South and West Derbyshire 18,812 10.9% 7.7% 1.9 744 -4.4% -29.1% overall contract awards, there were hotspots in , North Key regional coldspots Nottingham 30,549 18.3% 4.0% 8.0 408 10.0% 70.3% Nottinghamshire, Nottingham and South Nottinghamshire. South North Nottinghamshire 18,866 14.9% 9.7% 3.5 865 6.7% 19.5% REGION FOCUS… and West Derbyshire was a coldspot. South Nottinghamshire 19,518 15.2% 6.5% 3.6 444 13.3% 179.6% East of England Leicester 23,390 23.5% 3.4% 4.9 283 -4.4% 28.7% East Midlands Leicestershire CC and Rutland 24,877 18.9% 8.0% 3.4 1,475 6.0% -0.1% London South Nottinghamshire had the largest growth 29,615 22.4% 8.1% 3.6 969 7.3% 70.8% West Northamptonshire North East in contracts awarded in 2019, dominating the North Northamptonshire 20,403 22.4% 6.7% 2.5 474 9.5% -13.1% North West region and increasing by 179.6% Lincolnshire 19,818 14.3% 7.1% 3.4 1,069 2.3% -70.6% Scotland Source: Barbour ABI, CPA , ONS South East South West Wales West Midlands Yorkshire & Humber

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CONTINUED UK Construction FOCUS ON…EAST MIDLANDS HEAT SCALE -5 -4 -3 -2 -1 0 1 2 3 4 5 Hotspots REPORT 2020 Residential Commercial Infrastructure To navigate just click on buttons £1.6 billion worth of Commercial contract Contract awards for below and they will take you directly residential contracts awards totalled infrastructure projects to your chosen section. were awarded in the £579 million in 2019, in the East Midlands LINCOLN LINCOLN LINCOLN Home East Midlands region in 41.1% higher than in region totalled Introduction 2019, 13.3% higher than 2018. East Derbyshire £669 million in 2019, Overview the value awarded in 2018. DERBY NOTTINGHAM and Nottingham were DERBY NOTTINGHAM which was 68.5% lower DERBY NOTTINGHAM North Northamptonshire hotspots for commercial than the value awarded in Key regional hotspots and South Nottinghamshire activity, whilst Derby was 2018, which was boosted by Key regional coldspots were hotspots, whilst LEICESTER a coldspot. Two phases of LEICESTER the Triton Knoll offshore wind LEICESTER Leicestershire CC and Rutland Nottingham’s Unity Square farm. North Northamptonshire REGION FOCUS… was a coldspot. Key projects in the redevelopment accounted for and South Nottinghamshire East of England region include £100 million for the £124 million of the top ten projects, were hotspots, but there were no East Midlands redevelopment of the Derbyshire along with four retail projects. coldspots. The largest contract London Royal Infirmary and three student award was the new £253 million accommodation projects in Lincoln, HMP Wellingborough. North East Leicester and Nottingham. North West Scotland South East South West TOP TOP TOP Residential Contracts Commercial Contracts Infrastructure Contracts Wales The top 10 residential contracts by value of project. The top 10 commercial contracts by value of project. The top 10 infrastructure contracts by value of project. 10 10 10 West Midlands

Project Units Value Start Finish Project Type Value Start Finish Project Value Start Finish Yorkshire & Humber

Derbyshire Royal Infirmary, London Road 763 £100m Dec 19 Dec 24 Intu phase 1 Retail £86m Jan 19 Jan 21 HMP Wellingborough £253m May 19 May 21 St Marks Lincoln student accommodation 413 £80m Apr 19 Apr 22 Unity Square phase 2, Nottingham Offices £64m Jan 20 - Broadmarsh – bus station £53.5m Apr 19 Oct 20 CASE STUDY… Freemans Common Leicester students 480 £60m Aug 19 Aug 21 Unity Square phase 1, Nottingham Offices £60m Mar 19 Mar 21 Broadmarsh – multi storey car park £44m Apr 19 Oct 20 Covid-19 and Construction Gainsborough Southern N'hood 460 £46m Mar 20 Apr 22 Fosse Shopping Park Retail £45m Mar 19 Jun 21 49.9 MW Brantson Solar Park extension £35m Nov 19 - Teal Close Gedling, Netherfield 367 £36.7m Apr 20 Oct 21 Grantham Designer Outlet Village Retail £30.7m Nov 19 Nov 20 Spalding Western relief road (phase 1) £33m - - Methodology Weldon Park phase 2 361 £36.1m Jun 19 - The Glass Yard – mixed development Offices £15m Oct 19 Oct 20 M1/ junction 23 A512 improvements £27m - Feb 21 Beeston Business Park redevelopment 310 £31m - - Joules Limited, Market Harborough Offices £12.8m Jan 19 Jan 21 East Mids Gateway – Intermodal rail interchange £20m May 18 Nov 19 New House Farm phase 3 - £30m Apr 19 - Space Park R&D Building Offices £11.6m Nov 19 Jan 21 Grantham Southern relief road – phase 2 £20m Sep 19 Mar 21 Site 7 Middlemore, Daventry 315 £28m Aug 19 Aug 21 Morrison's, Sherwood Lodge Retail £11m May 19 - Viking Link Interconnector – onshore works £20m Jan 20 Dec 23 The Vantage students, Nottingham 124 £25m Jun 19 Apr 21 Midway Park – phase 2 unit 2 & 3 Offices £10m Jul 20 - A45 Chowns Mill upgrade £15.7m Feb 20 Aug 21 BROUGHT TO YOU BY

Source: Barbour ABI, CPA Source: Barbour ABI, CPA Source: Barbour ABI, CPA UK Construction FOCUS ON… Hotspots London REPORT 2020 To navigate just click on buttons below and they will take you directly London is the largest regional economy, accounting for 23.6% GVA per GVA growth Construction Unemployment Construction Construction Contracts Awards of total UK GVA and the highest GVA per head. Construction head 2013-2018 % of GVA rate GVA (2018) Growth (2018) Growth (2019) to your chosen section. represents only 4.6% of regional GVA and construction GVA UK Average 28,729 20.0% 6.1% 3.9 115,978 3.3% 0.5% Home increased 3.3% in 2018. Key sectors of economic activity are London 50,547 25.5% 4.6% 4.6 20,527 3.3% 11.9% Introduction focused in real estate activities, financial and insurance services, Camden and City of London 382,136 35.9% 2.1% 5.2 2,195 30.5% -49.7% Overview professional, scientific and technical activities and business Westminster 267,957 30.5% 2.3% 4.8 1,570 -13.9% 32.2% Key regional hotspots services. The value of contracts awarded in the region totalled Kensington & Chelsea and Hammersmith & Fulham 61,133 22.0% 1.6% 4.4 344 -15.7% 64.3% £13.0 billion in 2019, 11.9% higher than the previous year. Key regional coldspots Wandsworth 23,862 22.0% 3.0% 4.4 235 2.2% 65.4% Overall hotspots were in Barnet, Lewisham and Southwark, and Hackney and Newham 23,002 36.4% 5.1% 4.7 746 2.3% -0.1% REGION FOCUS… Wandsworth. There were two coldspots: Bexley and Greenwich, Tower Hamlets 108,835 22.9% 3.2% 4.0 1,091 -4.6% 16.6% and Brent. East of England Haringey and Islington 44,895 19.7% 3.7% 3.4 842 9.2% -15.0% East Midlands 37,962 19.6% 4.1% 4.4 976 -5.3% 159.5% Lewisham and Southwark London Lambeth 37,974 21.6% 3.2% 5.9 400 6.4% 516.9% Despite having the largest growth in contracts North East Bexley and Greenwich 21,482 11.8% 11.1% 4.7 1,270 3.1% -43.6% awarded in 2018, in 2019 Bromley had the North West Barking & Dagenham and Havering 19,443 11.0% 11.6% 5.4 1,056 -1.5% 29.1% lowest growth, decreasing by 79.9% Scotland Redbridge and Waltham Forest 16,146 19.4% 8.6% 5.2 809 -4.7% 30.2% South East Enfield 22,362 16.7% 12.5% 7.3 936 20.2% 19.6% South West Bromley 25,040 19.2% 9.6% 1.9 793 5.3% -79.9% Wales Croydon 23,282 17.2% 7.3% 3.5 658 0.9% -3.6% West Midlands Merton, Kingston upon Thames and Sutton 25,700 16.0% 8.3% 4.5 1,246 1.3% 5.8% Yorkshire & Humber Barnet 22,929 21.6% 9.7% 5.5 869 8.2% 91.7%

Brent 26,279 25.2% 11.8% 6.2 1,029 -1.4% -47.5% CASE STUDY… Ealing 27,212 12.8% 8.8% 4.5 819 11.0% 64.0% Covid-19 and Construction Harrow and Hillingdon 34,788 18.4% 8.4% 4.9 1,631 -0.1% -14.9%

Hounslow and Richmond upon Thames 54,868 30.5% 3.9% 2.5 1,012 14.4% -11.7% Methodology Source: Barbour ABI, CPA , ONS

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CONTINUED UK Construction FOCUS ON…LONDON HEAT SCALE -5 -4 -3 -2 -1 0 1 2 3 4 5 Hotspots REPORT 2020 Residential Commercial Infrastructure To navigate just click on buttons £5.8 billion worth of residential contracts were awarded in Commercial contract awards totalled £3.5 billion in 2019, Contract awards for infrastructure projects in London below and they will take you directly London in 2019, 24.0% higher than the value awarded in 2018. 0.5% lower than the 2018 value. Hotspots for commercial totalled £830 million in 2019, 35.4% higher than in 2018. to your chosen section. Barnet, Kensington & Chelsea and Hammersmith & Fulham, activity were Enfield, Lambeth, and Lewisham and Southwark, Hackney and Newham, and Tower Hamlets were hotspots, Home and Wandsworth were hotspots; Brent and Hounslow and whilst Camden and City of London was a coldspot. Contract whilst Westminster was a coldspot. The Introduction Richmond upon Thames were coldspots. awards included the country’s two largest offices projects: the Overground extension was the only project over £100 million. £400 million Paddington Cube and the £400 million 10 Bank Overview Street in . Key regional hotspots Key regional coldspots

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Project Units Value Start Finish Project Type Value Start Finish Project Value Start Finish Yorkshire & Humber

Nine Elms Parkside – plots B & D - £276m Jul 19 Jul 24 Paddington Cube Offices £400m Apr 19 Apr 22 Barking Riverside Railway extension £196m Apr 19 Oct 21 Chelsea Barracks – phase 4 - £250m May 19 May 21 10 Bank Street, Heron Quays West Offices £400m Jan 20 - Mogden sewage treatment works upgrade £31m - - CASE STUDY… The Old War Office – fit out 88 £240m Jul 19 May 22 Borough Yards – Stoney Street Offices £300m Jul 19 - Ilford Station improvements £30m Sep 19 Dec 20 Covid-19 and Construction Stratford City East Village - £200m Apr 19 - Waterloo Station, Southwark Retail £200m Apr 19 Feb 21 – fit-out works £30m Feb 19 Sep 22 3-11 Goulston Street, Aldgate - £195m Dec 19 Aug 21 White City Place, plots 6, 7 & 8 Offices £157m Aug 21 - North London Heat & Power Project £28.5m Jan 19 Jul 19 Methodology 101 Cleveland Street, Westminster - £190m Jan 20 Jan 22 The London Television Centre Offices £130m - - Feltham Depot Project £23m Jun 19 Jan 22 Whitechapel Central, The Silk District 647 £160m Apr 19 Apr 23 development, D3 & D4 Offices £70.6m - - Illuminated River Project – Tower Hamlets £20m Dec 18 Dec 28 Imperial 2, Bromley-by-Bow - £130m May 19 - 25 North Colonnade, Poplar Retail £70m Mar 19 Sep 20 London City Airport – civil/enabling works £17m - - Lewisham Gateway phase 2 - £120m Jan 20 - Central House, Whitechapel High St Offices £65m Nov 19 Nov 20 RAF Northolt – runway £16.8m Apr 19 Jun 21 New Scotland Yard - £100m Feb 19 Jan 22 Kings Cross – P2 Building Offices £60m Nov 18 Apr 21 Old Street roundabout redevelopment £15m Oct 18 - BROUGHT TO YOU BY

Source: Barbour ABI, CPA Source: Barbour ABI, CPA Source: Barbour ABI, CPA UK Construction FOCUS ON… Hotspots North East REPORT 2020 To navigate just click on buttons below and they will take you directly The North East region accounts for 2.9% of UK GVA and had GVA per GVA growth Construction Unemployment Construction Construction Contracts Awards the highest regional unemployment rate in 2018 (5.8%) and the head 2013-2018 % of GVA rate GVA (2018) Growth (2018) Growth (2019) to your chosen section. lowest GVA per head. Key sectors of regional economic activity UK Average 28,729 20.0% 6.1% 3.9 115,978 3.3% 0.5% Home are industrial production and manufacturing, distribution North East 20,554 14.2% 5.6% 5.8 3,083 2.0% 7.4% Introduction and transport, and public sector administration. Construction Hartlepool and Stockton-on-Tees 21,619 10.8% 7.2% 6.4 452 -1.5% -40.7% Overview accounted for 5.6% of regional gross value added in 2018, and South Teesside 16,856 15.0% 5.9% 6.4 277 12.1% 219.2% Key regional hotspots construction GVA rose 2.0%. Darlington 26,105 11.2% 5.9% 6.3 163 3.8% 132.2% Key regional coldspots The value of contracts awarded totalled £2.0 billion in 2019, Durham CC 16,763 10.7% 6.2% 5.6 552 5.1% -15.7% an increase of 7.4% from the previous year. In terms of overall Northumberland 15,564 12.4% 5.9% 5.7 293 8.5% 67.1% REGION FOCUS… contract awards, Darlington was a hotspot, whilst Hartlepool and Tyneside 22,811 15.5% 5.3% 5.1 1,041 -3.3% -20.2% East of England Stockton-on-Tees, and Tyneside were coldspots. Sunderland 26,978 20.7% 4.1% 6.9 305 6.3% 57.5% East Midlands Source: Barbour ABI, CPA , ONS London North East South Teesside had the largest growth in North West contracts awarded in 2019, increasing by 219.2% Scotland South East South West Wales West Midlands Yorkshire & Humber

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CONTINUED UK Construction FOCUS ON…NORTH EAST HEAT SCALE -5 -4 -3 -2 -1 0 1 2 3 4 5 Hotspots REPORT 2020 Residential Commercial Infrastructure To navigate just click on buttons £621 million worth of residential Commercial contract awards Contract awards for infrastructure below and they will take you directly contracts were awarded in the North totalled £225 million in 2019, 12.0% projects in the North East totalled to your chosen section. East in 2019, a decrease of 31.6% lower than the 2018. Darlington £370 million in 2019, more than Home from 2018. There were no was a hotspot, although double the value in 2018. Introduction hotspots in 2019. Despite the value of commercial There were no hotspots hosting two of the region’s contract awards was above or coldspots, however, Overview largest residential contracts, the long-term average in with values largely in line Key regional hotspots NEWCASTLE NEWCASTLE NEWCASTLE Durham CC was a coldspot, most other sub-regions, with long-term averages. The Key regional coldspots along with Tyneside. SUNDERLAND except for Sunderland and SUNDERLAND largest infrastructure contract SUNDERLAND

DURHAM South Teesside, which was DURHAM award in the region were for DURHAM REGION FOCUS… a coldspot. the £45 million decontamination East of England and demolition of the former Half of the top ten largest contracts East Midlands steelworks in Redcar. were for retail projects. London North East North West Scotland South East South West TOP TOP TOP Residential Contracts Commercial Contracts Infrastructure Contracts Wales The top 10 residential contracts by value of project. The top 10 commercial contracts by value of project. The top 10 infrastructure contracts by value of project. 10 10 10 West Midlands

Project Units Value Start Finish Project Type Value Start Finish Project Value Start Finish Yorkshire & Humber

Millburngate House redevelopment - £68m Jun 19 Dec 21 Durham County Council HQ Offices £50m Sep 19 Sep 21 South Tees Site Company Ltd – decontamination £45m Jan 19 Dec 20 Durham Road, Middlestone Moor 338 £40m - - Newcastle Science Central plots 2 & 3 Offices £32.8m Sep 19 Jun 21 A69 junction improvements £30m Oct 19 Mar 21 CASE STUDY… West Chirton Industrial Estate 382 £38.2m Jul 19 - Burnhope Way Retail Park Retail £16m Nov 19 Nov 20 Middlesborough/Whitehouse Grip 4-8 – signalling £25m Jul 19 Jul 21 Covid-19 and Construction Uni of Teesside – student accommodation - £21m May 19 Oct 20 Loaning Meadows Retail Park Retail £12.9m Nov 19 - Northumberland Energy Park (phase 1) – Blythe £23m Mar 19 Sep 20 West Park Garden Village 239 £19m - - Cobalt Business Park – offices Offices £12.5m Mar 20 Oct 20 Royal Victoria Infirmary multi storey staff car park £15.5m Apr 19 Apr 21 Methodology Brackenhoe 175 £17.5m Dec 19 Dec 24 Princess Way, Tyneview Retail Park Retail £10.5m Nov 19 Jul 20 Cowpen Bewley Road – 49.99MW gas fired facility £15m Aug 19 May 20 West Park Garden Village 225 £17m - - Millburngate House, Framwelgate Offices £9.2m Jun 19 Nov 21 Washington sewage treatment works £14m - - Choppington Road phase 1 149 £14.9m Sep 19 - Feethams office development Offices £8.5m Feb 19 Apr 20 Nexus-Howdon satellite depot facility £10m - - Victoria Park, Cromwell Avenue 142 £14.2m - - Bedlington town centre redevelopment Retail £6.5m - - Hartmoor gas powered generator £10m - - Blackthorn Way, Fencehouses 138 £14m Oct 19 Jul 22 Morrison's, Amble Retail Park Retail £6.1m Aug 19 Mar 20 Chester-Le-Street flood prevention scheme £6.2m Oct 19 Oct 20 BROUGHT TO YOU BY

Source: Barbour ABI, CPA Source: Barbour ABI, CPA Source: Barbour ABI, CPA UK Construction FOCUS ON… Hotspots North West REPORT 2020 To navigate just click on buttons below and they will take you directly The North West region accounts for 9.6% of UK GVA and includes GVA per GVA growth Construction Unemployment Construction Construction Contracts Awards two major cities: Manchester and . Key sectors of head 2013-2018 % of GVA rate GVA (2018) Growth (2018) Growth (2019) to your chosen section. regional economic activity are industrial production and UK Average 28,729 20.0% 6.1% 3.9 115,978 3.3% 0.5% Home manufacturing, distribution and transport, and public sector North West 25,118 21.0% 5.9% 4.1 10,807 3.8% 23.2% Introduction administration. Construction accounted for 5.9% of regional GVA West Cumbria 22,030 9.3% 5.4% 3.6 279 1.1% 579.6% Overview in 2018 and construction GVA grew 3.8%. The value of contracts East Cumbria 25,640 14.6% 7.2% 1.5 493 5.1% 48.8% Key regional hotspots awarded totalled £7.8 billion in 2019, an increase of 23.2% from Manchester 41,177 30.1% 3.3% 6.2 751 2.7% -23.2% the previous year. In terms of overall contract awards, there were Key regional coldspots Greater Manchester South West 34,121 19.8% 8.0% 4.8 1,335 11.4% 3.2% hotspots in East Merseyside and West Cumbria, but coldspots in Greater Manchester South East 19,411 14.6% 5.0% 4.3 500 -6.9% 65.8% REGION FOCUS… Liverpool, Manchester and Lancaster and Wyre. Greater Manchester North West 18,633 20.7% 7.0% 4.9 802 2.6% -2.0% East of England Greater Manchester North East 15,938 13.4% 7.2% 4.7 737 6.5% -2.9% East Midlands Blackburn with Darwen 21,208 30.5% 3.4% 5.2 106 -3.6% 43.9% London Despite having a negative growth in contracts 20,347 34.4% 3.2% 5.7 91 18.2% -25.8% Blackpool North East awarded in 2018, West Cumbria recorded the Lancaster and Wyre 17,214 7.1% 5.6% 3.3 247 1.2% -23.1% North West largest growth in 2019, increasing by 579.6% Mid Lancashire 30,279 23.1% 10.5% 1.8 1,247 2.2% -17.0% Scotland East Lancashire 21,773 18.8% 4.3% 4.0 308 3.7% 8.3% South East Chorley and West Lancashire 20,032 26.1% 7.7% 2.7 357 8.8% 12.3% South West Warrington 35,686 24.0% 10.7% 2.8 797 12.9% 57.0% Wales Cheshire East 39,172 28.6% 3.5% 4.8 515 -2.6% -17.5% West Midlands Cheshire West and Chester 29,629 17.3% 3.1% 2.1 314 1.3% 49.7% Yorkshire & Humber East Merseyside 23,788 23.9% 7.9% 3.9 865 0.5% 42.0%

Liverpool 27,182 18.1% 4.2% 4.6 565 -0.7% -10.4% CASE STUDY… Sefton 15,478 21.1% 5.4% 2.5 229 4.1% 88.4% Covid-19 and Construction Wirral 15,456 18.0% 5.4% 4.7 268 7.2% 144.3%

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CONTINUED UK Construction FOCUS ON…NORTH WEST HEAT SCALE -5 -4 -3 -2 -1 0 1 2 3 4 5 Hotspots REPORT 2020 Residential Commercial Infrastructure To navigate just click on buttons £2.3 billion worth of residential contracts Commercial contract awards totalled Contract awards for infrastructure below and they will take you directly CARLISLE CARLISLE CARLISLE were awarded in the North West in £510 million in 2019, 28.5% lower than projects in the North West totalled to your chosen section. 2019, a decrease of 22.0% from 2018. in 2018. There was one hotspot: £2.5 billion in 2019, which is three Home There were five hotspots and three Blackburn with Darwen. Lancaster times higher than in 2018. Cheshire Introduction coldspots. The region’s top two and Wyre was a coldspot. Manchester East, Sefton, West Cumbria and Wirral largest projects were in Salford, at city centre accounted for half of the top were hotspots, led by the £1.5 billion Overview £150 million and £60 million each. ten largest contract awards, including the contract for the retreatment plant at Key regional hotspots LANCASTER next £73.1 million phase of the Manchester LANCASTER Sellafield and the £180 million Hooton Park LANCASTER Key regional coldspots Goods Yard development. sustainable energy facility in Cheshire.

PRESTON PRESTON PRESTON REGION FOCUS… East of England

SALFORD SALFORD SALFORD East Midlands LIVERPOOL LIVERPOOL LIVERPOOL MANCHESTER MANCHESTER MANCHESTER London North East CHESTER CHESTER CHESTER North West Scotland South East South West TOP TOP TOP Residential Contracts Commercial Contracts Infrastructure Contracts Wales The top 10 residential contracts by value of project. The top 10 commercial contracts by value of project. The top 10 infrastructure contracts by value of project. 10 10 10 West Midlands

Project Units Value Start Finish Project Type Value Start Finish Project Value Start Finish Yorkshire & Humber

City View development – Regent Plaza - £150m Nov 19 Dec 22 Manchester Goods Yard Offices £73.1m Jan 19 - Sellafield – SPRS retreatment programme £1.5bn - - Former Manchester Racecourse site - £60m Apr 20 Apr 24 Three New Bailey, Manchester Offices £35m Jan 19 Jan 21 Hooton Park 160MW sustainable energy facility £180m - Oct 21 CASE STUDY… Altair phase 2, Altrincham 91 £55m - - The Hive, Manchester Airport – phase 1 Offices £31m Jun 19 Jul 20 Preston Western distributor road £161m Sep 19 Sep 23 Covid-19 and Construction Meadow Mill, Water Street, Stockport 213 £45.8m Jun 19 - Euro Garages Limited, Blackburn Offices £29m - - Dualling of A500 Barthomley-Crewe £54.8m Oct 20 Aug 22 Winwick Street, John Street, Warrington 362 £45m - May 21 Virgin Media – office refurbishment Offices £17m Mar 20 Sep 20 Roosecote 49MW power station £50m - - Methodology Trinity Gateway, Bolton 144 £45m Apr 20 Old Granada Studios Offices £14m Jan 20 - Monarchs Quay car park replacement – Kings Dock £30m Mar 19 Sep 20 – city docks - £40m Oct 18 Oct 20 Paddinton Village, Royal Col of Physicians Offices £13.5m Jan 20 Aug 20 Alderley Park – multi storey car park £27m - - Appleton Cross, Warrington 370 £37m Oct 19 - Inovyn Chlorvinyls Limited, Merseyside Offices £12m Sep 19 - Poynton relief road £26.8m Apr 20 Jul 27 Reginald Road, St Helens - £34m Oct 18 Oct 20 Express Building, George Leigh Street Offices £11m - - Liverpool 2 Port of Liverpool – Deep Water Terminal £20m Aug 19 Jul 21 – phase 2 Renshaw Hall – student accommodation - £32m Apr 19 Oct 20 Peak Valley Retail Park, Hattersley Retail £10.6m Jul 19 Dec 20 BROUGHT TO YOU BY The Strand – Liverpool city centre £19m - - Source: Barbour ABI, CPA Source: Barbour ABI, CPA Source: Barbour ABI, CPA UK Construction FOCUS ON… Hotspots Scotland REPORT 2020 To navigate just click on buttons below and they will take you directly Scotland accounts for 7.4% of total UK GVA. Key sectors of GVA per GVA growth Construction Unemployment Construction Construction Contracts Awards economic activity in the region are industrial production head 2013-2018 % of GVA rate GVA (2018) Growth (2018) Growth (2019) to your chosen section. and manufacturing, distribution and transport and public UK Average 28,729 20.0% 6.1% 3.9 115,978 3.3% 0.5% Home administration. Construction accounted for 6.0% of regional Scotland 26,134 14.6% 6.0% 3.5 8,592 0.4% -30.4% Introduction gross value added in 2018 and increased 0.4% in that year, Angus and Dundee City 20,813 6.2% 5.2% 4.2 286 4.0% -4.2% Overview the slowest rate of growth among the UK regions. The value Clackmannanshire and Fife 19,463 15.4% 6.3% 3.9 516 -9.3% -48.4% Key regional hotspots of contracts awarded in the region totalled £4.5 billion in East Lothian and Midlothian 17,047 23.5% 8.0% 2.1 269 -9.4% 18.9% 2019, a decrease of 30.4% from the previous year. In terms of Key regional coldspots Scottish Borders 18,397 25.2% 5.3% 3.0 112 5.7% -12.8% overall contract awards, hotspots were in the Western Isles, Edinburgh, City of 47,631 27.6% 2.8% 2.8 680 8.3% -21.0% REGION FOCUS… Falkirk, and South Ayrshire. Edinburgh, East Ayrshire and North Falkirk 25,721 13.9% 8.3% 4.3 342 -7.8% 562.4% Ayrshire mainland, North Lanarkshire, and the Shetland Islands East of England were coldspots. Perth & Kinross and Stirling 28,433 7.7% 7.5% 2.9 525 -2.2% -61.2% East Midlands West Lothian 26,724 27.8% 9.3% 2.2 453 15.6% 33.7% London E Dunbartonshire, W Dunbartonshire and Helensburgh 15,904 25.6% 4.0% 3.3 141 -1.4% -19.8% & Lomond North East

Falkirk left everyone standing, recording the Dumfries & Galloway 20,089 14.3% 5.2% 2.9 156 10.6% -26.3% North West

largest growth in contracts awarded in 2019, E Ayrshire and N Ayrshire mainland 14,026 10.1% 6.1% 5.3 215 0.9% -69.1% Scotland

increasing by 562.4% Glasgow City 32,574 14.2% 5.1% 4.6 1,044 1.1% 45.0% South East

Inverclyde, E Renfrewshire and Renfrewshire 17,668 16.2% 6.0% 4.1 375 -17.0% 8.0% South West

North Lanarkshire 22,420 29.6% 10.6% 4.7 808 10.8% -51.7% Wales South Ayrshire 17,606 24.6% 8.5% 3.5 169 -7.1% 140.3% West Midlands South Lanarkshire 17,266 11.6% 9.6% 1.9 527 -4.0% 56.6% Yorkshire & Humber Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire 37,288 -3.6% 5.9% 2.9 1,072 3.2% 11.8%

Caithness & Sutherland and Ross & Cromarty 22,169 11.1% 7.7% na 160 -7.5% -45.1% CASE STUDY…

Inverness & Nairn and Moray, Badenoch & Strathspey 27,777 14.4% 8.0% 3.3 455 -0.4% -87.5% Covid-19 and Construction

Lochaber, Skye & Lochalsh, Arran & Cumbrae and 24,842 14.0% 6.4% 1.9 157 1.3% 1.4% Argyll & Bute Methodology Eilean Siar (Western Isles) 21,117 10.1% 6.0% 1.1 34 36.0% 147.0%

Orkney Islands 28,587 9.7% 6.8% na 43 10.3% -46.4%

Shetland Islands 33,124 0.7% 7.1% na 54 -5.3% -75.6%

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CONTINUED UK Construction FOCUS ON…SCOTLAND HEAT SCALE -5 -4 -3 -2 -1 0 1 2 3 4 5 Hotspots REPORT 2020 Residential Commercial Infrastructure To navigate just click on buttons £1.5 billion worth of residential contracts were Commercial contract awards totalled Contract awards for infrastructure projects in Scotland below and they will take you directly awarded in Scotland in 2019, 2.6% lower than £502 million in 2019, increasing 77.2% from totalled £977 million in 2019, which was two-thirds to your chosen section. the value awarded a year earlier. There were the previous year. Hotspots for commercial lower than in the previous year. The Western Isles, Home five hotspots and three coldspots. The activity were in Dumfries and Galloway, Falkirk, Inverclyde, East Renfrewshire Introduction £150 million redevelopment Falkirk, Glasgow, and the and Renfrewshire, and South of Jordanhill College in Scottish Borders. Coldspots Ayrshire were hotspots, Overview Glasgow was in the top were in East Ayrshire and whilst East Ayrshire and Key regional hotspots ten largest residential North Ayrshire mainland, North Ayrshire mainland, INVERNESS INVERNESS INVERNESS Key regional coldspots contract awards in ABERDEEN and Inverclyde, East ABERDEEN and Glasgow were ABERDEEN Great Britain. Renfrewshire and coldspots. REGION FOCUS… Renfrewshire. DUNDEE DUNDEE DUNDEE East of England PERTH PERTH PERTH STIRLING STIRLING STIRLING East Midlands

EDINBURGH EDINBURGH EDINBURGH GLASGOW GLASGOW GLASGOW London North East North West Scotland South East South West TOP TOP TOP Residential Contracts Commercial Contracts Infrastructure Contracts Wales The top 10 residential contracts by value of project. The top 10 commercial contracts by value of project. The top 10 infrastructure contracts by value of project. 10 10 10 West Midlands

Project Units Value Start Finish Project Type Value Start Finish Project Value Start Finish Yorkshire & Humber

Jordanhill, Glasgow 412 £150m Feb 19 - 177 Bothwell Street, Glasgow Offices £120m Jan 19 - Earls Gate Energy Centre – 21.5MW facility £210m Jan 19 Jan 22 Upper Achintore, Fort William 400 £50m Jan 20 Jan 24 Edinburgh Park Southern Phase Offices £110m Sep 19 Sep 21 Greenbank Crescent – EFW facility £150m - - CASE STUDY… Cammo development, Edinburgh 458 £45.8m Jan 20 Jun 20 Buchanan Wharf Project – building 2 Offices £47.7m Nov 18 Aug 21 RAF Lossiemouth – runway £75m - - Covid-19 and Construction Summerhil, Aberdeen 369 £35m Oct 19 Oct 23 Buchanan Wharf Project – building 1 Offices £26.7m Nov 18 Aug 21 A77 Maybole bypass £30m - - East Whitlawburn, Western Road 330 £33m Sep 19 - Cadogan Street, Glasgow Offices £17.5m - - Burncrooks & Milngavie water treatment works £30m - - Methodology Cathedral Street student accommodation - £30m Sep 19 Dec 20 Crown Street Retail Park Retail £10m Nov 18 Jan 20 Tralorg Hill 20MW wind farm £29.5m Mar 19 Oct 19 Wellhead Farm, Murieston 280 £28m Sep 19 - Dalmarnock Hybrid Industrial Park Offices £9.5m Jan 19 Jan 20 Glasgow Airport Investment Area Project (GAIA) £21m Jun 19 Dec 20 Larkhall Community Growth Area 274 £27.4m - - Kingshill Business Park – 4 offices Offices £8.3m Dec 19 Jun 20 Clyde Bridge major structures £20m Apr 19 Apr 21 Cowpits Road, Whitecraig 250 £25m May 20 - The Cerium Building, Glasgow Offices £8m - - A898 Erskine Bridge external painting £17.9m Apr 19 Oct 22 Broich Road, Crieff 246 £24.6m Jan 20 Jan 24 Klondyke Garden Centre Retail £7m Jul 19 Aug 20 A90/A96 Haudagain improvement project £17.6m Jan 19 Jul 25 BROUGHT TO YOU BY

Source: Barbour ABI, CPA Source: Barbour ABI, CPA Source: Barbour ABI, CPA UK Construction FOCUS ON… Hotspots South East REPORT 2020 To navigate just click on buttons below and they will take you directly The South East region accounts for 14.5% of total UK GVA and GVA per GVA growth Construction Unemployment Construction Construction Contracts Awards key sectors of economic activity in the region are distribution head 2013-2018 % of GVA rate GVA (2018) Growth (2018) Growth (2019) to your chosen section. and transport, information and communications, real estate UK Average 28,729 20.0% 6.1% 3.9 115,978 3.3% 0.5% Home activities, business services and public administration. South East 30,356 17.3% 6.6% 3.0 18,350 3.4% 2.3% Introduction Construction accounted for 6.6% of regional GVA in 2018 and rose Berkshire 48,337 19.4% 3.9% 2.8 1,731 -2.9% -9.9% Overview 3.4% in that year. The value of contracts awarded in the region Milton Keynes 53,329 41.1% 3.1% 4.8 441 13.1% -47.4% Key regional hotspots totalled £7.5 billion in 2019, an increase of 2.3% from the previous Buckinghamshire CC 27,784 11.7% 8.1% 3.6 1,209 0.2% 14.7% year. In terms of overall contract awards, Central Hampshire was a Key regional coldspots Oxfordshire 30,791 12.3% 5.4% 1.1 1,136 7.4% -41.7% hotspot, whilst coldspots were in Isle of Wight, Southampton and Brighton and Hove 28,961 23.8% 3.3% 3.4 280 -8.8% 62.9% REGION FOCUS… West Kent. East Sussex CC 16,017 18.6% 8.0% 3.1 710 0.9% -8.4% East of England West Surrey 38,213 20.8% 7.1% 2.1 2,149 8.7% 86.4% East Midlands East Surrey 33,172 -6.7% 8.2% 2.1 1,093 -4.0% -43.0% Central Hampshire had the largest growth in London West Sussex (South West) 22,985 18.8% 4.6% 3.4 482 1.9% 82.0% contracts awarded in 2019, dominating the North East West Sussex (North East) 30,639 20.2% 6.3% 2.7 778 6.3% -4.6% region and increasing by 238.7% North West Portsmouth 26,240 9.0% 5.1% 4.0 288 -5.9% 38.8% Scotland Southampton 30,419 13.2% 3.7% 5.5 288 6.7% -44.8% South East Isle of Wight 17,178 11.4% 5.0% 3.4 122 -3.9% -65.0% South West South Hampshire 23,465 13.2% 9.7% 3.8 1,040 7.7% 14.8% Wales Central Hampshire 28,221 20.9% 8.6% 2.3 1,332 -4.8% 238.7% West Midlands North Hampshire 39,910 15.5% 7.1% 2.0 1,036 21.5% -14.0% Yorkshire & Humber Medway 20,068 22.5% 10.2% 3.4 571 4.4% -34.0%

Kent Thames Gateway 22,412 18.5% 13.0% 3.7 1,066 -5.4% -18.6% CASE STUDY… East Kent 18,648 14.9% 7.5% 4.1 746 25.0% 31.7% Covid-19 and Construction Mid Kent 23,764 22.2% 9.5% 3.3 672 12.8% -24.5%

West Kent 31,352 23.8% 10.2% 4.0 1,181 -1.1% -40.9% Methodology Source: Barbour ABI, CPA , ONS

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CONTINUED UK Construction FOCUS ON…SOUTH EAST HEAT SCALE -5 -4 -3 -2 -1 0 1 2 3 4 5 Hotspots REPORT 2020 Residential Commercial Infrastructure To navigate just click on buttons £3.0 billion worth of residential contracts were awarded in the Commercial contract awards in the South East totalled £734 million in Contract awards for infrastructure projects in the South East totalled below and they will take you directly South East region in 2019, 2.8% lower than the value awarded in 2019, 24.6% lower than in 2018. Hotspots for commercial activity were £794 million in 2019, a decrease of 15.9% from the value awarded in 2018. to your chosen section. 2018. Hotspots were East Kent, East Sussex CC, West Surrey, and Birhgton and Hove, Southampton, and West Sussex (South West). Hotspots of activity were in Kent Thames Gateway, North Hampshire, and Home West Sussex (South West). Coldspots were East Surrey, Medway, Oxfordshire and West Surrey were coldspots. Portsmouth; coldspots were in Brighton and Hove and the Isle of Wight. Introduction Southampton, and West Kent. Roads schemes accounted for seven of the top ten largest contracts. Overview Key regional hotspots Key regional coldspots

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CANTERBURY CANTERBURY CANTERBURY East Midlands London WINCHESTER WINCHESTER WINCHESTER SOUTHAMPTON SOUTHAMPTON SOUTHAMPTON CHICHESTER CHICHESTER CHICHESTER North East BRIGHTON BRIGHTON BRIGHTON PORTSMOUTH & HOVE PORTSMOUTH & HOVE PORTSMOUTH & HOVE North West Scotland South East South West TOP TOP TOP Residential Contracts Commercial Contracts Infrastructure Contracts Wales The top 10 residential contracts by value of project. The top 10 commercial contracts by value of project. The top 10 infrastructure contracts by value of project. 10 10 10 West Midlands

Project Units Value Start Finish Project Type Value Start Finish Project Value Start Finish Yorkshire & Humber

London Road, Camberley regeneration - £200m Oct 19 Oct 26 400 Longwater Avenue, Green Park Offices £60m Apr 19 Dec 20 Southsea Coastal Scheme – Portsmouth £85m Apr 20 Apr 27 Guildford College campus accommodation - £102m Oct 19 Jun 21 Edward Street Quarter, Brighton Offices £50m May 19 Nov 20 M4 to M25 bridge replacement works £80m Sep 19 - CASE STUDY… Kenavon Drive, Reading - £65m Jul 19 Jan 22 Marketfield Way, Redhill Retail £45m Jun 19 Dec 20 Farnborough Airport Hangar – Gulfstream £60m May 19 Aug 20 Covid-19 and Construction Eaton Leys, Milton Keynes 448 £48.8m Sep 19 Sep 25 North Street Quarter, Lewes Retail £45m Jul 19 Jul 22 Littlebrook Power Station 400KV substation £50m Jul 19 Jan 23 Burgess Hill Northern Arc East - £46m Mar 20 - Teville Gate House, Worthing Offices £40m Apr 19 Feb 21 Stubbington bypass £34m Nov 19 Nov 21 Methodology Church Road, Weald 440 £44m - - A50 & A57 Cody Park – data centre Offices £29m Jul 19 - M27 junction 9 improvements – Whiteley £22m Jan 20 Jan 23 Victoria Road, Ashford – plots 1 and 2 - £41m Jan 18 Nov 19 Basing View – plot K1 Offices £19m Sep 19 Jul 20 Drusillas roundabout – A27 East of Lewes £15m Apr 20 Apr 22 Farnborough Road, Hampshire 145 £40m - - Virgin Media Limited, Reading Offices £16.7m - Dec 19 Selmeston section – A27 East of Lewes £15m Apr 20 Apr 22 Fernhurst Park, Linchmere - £40m Sep 19 Sep 24 Hampden Retail Park, Marshall Road Retail £16.7m Apr 19 Apr 20 Wilmington junction – A27 East of Lewes £15m Apr 20 Apr 22 Kingsbrook Village phases 3.2, 3.4, 3.5 384 £40m Aug 19 Aug 22 Perrymount Road, Haywards Heath Offices £15m Jul 20 Oct 21 Polegate junction – A27 East of Lewes £15m Apr 20 Apr 22 BROUGHT TO YOU BY

Source: Barbour ABI, CPA Source: Barbour ABI, CPA Source: Barbour ABI, CPA UK Construction FOCUS ON… Hotspots South West REPORT 2020 To navigate just click on buttons below and they will take you directly The South West region accounts for 7.3% of total UK GVA and GVA per GVA growth Construction Unemployment Construction Construction Contracts Awards key sectors of economic activity in the region are distribution head 2013-2018 % of GVA rate GVA (2018) Growth (2018) Growth (2019) to your chosen section. and transport, public administration and business services. UK Average 28,729 20.0% 6.1% 3.9 115,978 3.3% 0.5% Home Construction accounted for 6.9% of regional gross value added South West 24,891 19.3% 6.9% 3.1 9,604 2.6% 10.5% Introduction in 2018 and registered an increase of 2.6% in that year. The value Bristol, City of 31,779 24.7% 5.6% 4.5 826 3.4% -14.2% Overview of contracts awarded in the region totalled £4.5 billion in 2019, Bath and NE Somerset, N Somerset and S Gloucestershire 29,838 22.5% 7.6% 3.2 1,564 15.6% -2.3% Key regional hotspots an increase of 10.5% from the previous year. In terms of overall Gloucestershire 26,101 15.6% 6.1% 3.2 1,008 -5.4% 49.8% contract awards, hotspots were in Bournemouth and Poole, and Key regional coldspots Swindon 43,429 17.7% 3.9% 3.4 380 -25.3% -12.6% Somerset; coldspots were in Dorset CC, Wiltshire, and Cornwall Wiltshire 23,668 15.2% 6.1% 1.8 715 -1.1% -19.3% REGION FOCUS… and Isles of Scilly. Bournemouth and Poole 26,326 15.4% 7.9% 2.4 718 12.0% 118.3% East of England Dorset CC 21,967 23.6% 7.1% 2.4 664 -1.5% -5.8% East Midlands Somerset 20,663 21.5% 7.3% 2.5 840 7.1% 53.4% London Bournemouth and Poole had the largest growth 19,288 23.1% 9.2% 3.2 1,009 2.5% -36.9% Cornwall and Isles of Scilly North East in contracts awarded in 2019, increasing Plymouth 20,690 15.0% 6.0% 4.5 324 17.8% 44.7% North West by 118.3% Torbay 14,599 3.3% 4.1% 3.9 81 -5.8% -14.8% Scotland Devon CC 22,286 18.4% 8.3% 2.9 1,473 0.1% 15.0% South East Source: Barbour ABI, CPA , ONS South West Wales West Midlands Yorkshire & Humber

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CONTINUED UK Construction FOCUS ON…SOUTH WEST HEAT SCALE -5 -4 -3 -2 -1 0 1 2 3 4 5 Hotspots REPORT 2020 Residential Commercial Infrastructure To navigate just click on buttons £1.9 billion worth of residential contracts were awarded Commercial contract awards totalled £280 million Contract awards for infrastructure projects in the South below and they will take you directly in the South West region in 2019, 1.6% lower than in 2019, 2.3% higher than in 2018. There were no West totalled £765 million in 2019, 29.2% above the to your chosen section. the value awarded in 2018. There were hotspots in hotspots and Cornwall and Isles of Scilly, Plymouth, previous year. There were no hotspots, but Cornwall and Home Bournemouth and Poole, Cornwall and Isles of Scilly, and Somerset were coldspots. The top ten contract Isles of Scilly, and Devon CC were coldspots. The dualling Introduction Devon CC, Plymouth, and Somerset. Bath and North East awards were spread across the region, from the of the A303 between Sparkford and Ilchester in Somerset Overview Somerset, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire GLOUCESTER £35 million Assembly Building in Bristol, to the GLOUCESTER was the largest contract in the region. GLOUCESTER was a coldspot. £5 million King’s Walk retail project in Gloucester. Key regional hotspots Key regional coldspots BRISTOL BRISTOL BRISTOL

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Project Units Value Start Finish Project Type Value Start Finish Project Value Start Finish Yorkshire & Humber

Uni of Exeter – East Park students - £95m Jan 19 - Assembly Building, Bristol Offices £35m Feb 19 Feb 21 A303 Sparkford to Ilchester dualling £250m - - Gloucester Quays – Monk Meadow Dock - £85m Oct 18 - Chippenham Gateway – business park Offices £14m Nov 19 - Hinkley Point C Connection Project £214m Feb 19 Feb 25 CASE STUDY… Former Winter Gardens, Bournemouth - £65m Jan 20 Jan 22 Aviation Business Park, Bournemouth Offices £11m - - Asea flood defence £45m Jul 19 Jan 30 Covid-19 and Construction Pirton Fields, Gloucestershire 465 £50m Jan 20 Jan 26 The Tannery redevelopment, Holt Retail £8.2m Nov 19 Nov 21 Sea Wall, Marine Parade, Dawlish £30m Jun 19 Mar 20 Pinhoe Quarry, Devon 380 £38m Jan 20 - Gloucester Business Park – plot 2000 Offices £7.8m Oct 19 Apr 20 M5 junction 25 improvements £19.2m Mar 19 Mar 21 Methodology Lansdowne Road, Bournemouth - £31m Jan 18 Aug 19 Ashville Business Park – extension Offices £7.4m Jan 19 Jul 20 Bristol to overhead line £15m - Sep 19 Mosshayne phase 1, Devon 265 £26.5m Sep 19 - Quad World Business, Exeter Offices £6m Jan 20 Jan 21 Wichelstowe Southern Access £13.9m Oct 19 Apr 23 Chocolate Factory Site, Bristol 138 £25m Sep 19 Mar 22 The East Quay community development Offices £5.5m Oct 19 Jan 21 Minchinhampton-Stroud water pipeline £11m Sep 18 Dec 19 North Yate New Neighbourhood 238 £23.8m - - Otter Nurseries – Torbay Retail £5m Jan 19 Jan 20 Hinkley Point C – Sandford 400/132KV substation £10m - - Wembdon Rise, Somerset 238 £23.8m Mar 20 Mar 25 King's Walk Centre, Gloucester Retail £5m May 19 May 20 Taunton Railway Station – multi storey car park £9m Jun 19 Jul 20 BROUGHT TO YOU BY

Source: Barbour ABI, CPA Source: Barbour ABI, CPA Source: Barbour ABI, CPA UK Construction FOCUS ON… Hotspots Wales REPORT 2020 To navigate just click on buttons below and they will take you directly Wales accounts for 3.4% of total UK GVA and key sectors of GVA per GVA growth Construction Unemployment Construction Construction Contracts Awards economic activity in the region are industrial production and head 2013-2018 % of GVA rate GVA (2018) Growth (2018) Growth (2019) to your chosen section. manufacturing, distribution and transport, public administration UK Average 28,729 20.0% 6.1% 3.9 115,978 3.3% 0.5% Home and real estate activities. Construction accounted for 6.2% of Wales 20,738 16.9% 6.2% 4.1 4,010 5.3% 26.0% Introduction regional GVA in 2018 and increased 5.3% in that year. The value Isle of Anglesey 15,005 21.2% 6.0% 4.5 63 1.6% 170.3% Overview of contracts awarded in the region totalled £1.8 billion in 2019, Gwynedd 21,305 14.2% 9.0% 3.9 238 57.6% 81.5% Key regional hotspots an increase of 26.0% from the previous year. In terms of overall Conwy and Denbighshire 17,856 22.1% 8.0% 3.6 302 -1.6% -56.7% contract awards, Gwynedd and Swansea were hotspots, whilst Key regional coldspots South West Wales 17,675 11.7% 5.5% 4.2 377 -0.8% 74.2% Conwy and Denbighshire was a coldspot. Central Valleys 15,446 6.8% 9.3% 5.7 432 2.1% 5.6% REGION FOCUS… Gwent Valleys 15,536 17.4% 5.4% 5.0 287 5.5% -42.2% East of England Bridgend and Neath Port Talbot 20,644 22.0% 7.2% 4.0 426 1.7% 269.1% East Midlands Bridgend and Neath Port Talbot, Swansea and Swansea 21,912 17.3% 5.2% 4.0 280 1.4% 182.7% London 24,997 25.1% 5.6% 3.4 344 9.6% -0.5% Isle of Anglesey all recorded substantial growths Monmouthshire and Newport North East Cardiff and Vale of Glamorgan 28,750 19.8% 5.7% 3.2 813 4.6% 48.8% in contracts awarded in 2019, with 269.1%, North West Flintshire and Wrexham 23,137 11.5% 5.0% 4.3 335 3.1% -21.7% 182.7% and 170.3% respectively Scotland Powys 17,025 11.3% 5.0% 2.9 113 11.9% -58.5% South East Source: Barbour ABI, CPA , ONS South West Wales West Midlands Yorkshire & Humber

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CONTINUED UK Construction FOCUS ON…WALES HEAT SCALE -5 -4 -3 -2 -1 0 1 2 3 4 5 Hotspots REPORT 2020 Residential Commercial Infrastructure To navigate just click on buttons £639 million worth of residential ST ASAPH Commercial contract awards totalled ST ASAPH Contract awards for infrastructure ST ASAPH below and they will take you directly BANGOR BANGOR BANGOR contracts were awarded in Wales in £130 million in 2019, 41.2% higher than projects in Wales totalled £464 million to your chosen section. 2019, 15.8% higher than the value the previous year Gwent Valleys and Isle in 2019, which was double the value Home awarded in 2018. Central Valleys, of Anglesey were hotspots, and there awarded in the previous year. Introduction Flintshire and Wrexham, Gwynedd, were no coldspots. There was only Gwynedd and Swansea were Monmouthshire and Newport, and Swansea one contract award greater than £50 million. hotspots, whilst there were no coldspots. Overview were hotspots. There were no coldspots. Four Energy projects accounted for four of the top Key regional hotspots of the top ten contract awards were for ten largest contract awards. Key regional coldspots student accommodation in

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Project Units Value Start Finish Project Type Value Start Finish Project Value Start Finish Yorkshire & Humber

Atlantic Wharf student accommodation - £60m Oct 19 - No 2 John Street, Callaghan Square Offices £51m May 21 - Cogeneration Power Plant (49.9MW) – Pembroke £100m - - Mariner St student accommodation - £44m Jun 19 Dec 20 DWP, Mid Glamorgan Offices £14m Jan 19 Jan 20 Cardiff Interchange – Cardiff Central Square £100m Oct 19 Apr 22 CASE STUDY… Mabey Bridge, Chepstow 345 £34.5m Jun 19 Jun 23 Brynmawr Retail Park – 3 Retail £8m Jan 20 Oct 20 Holyhead Deep Green Energy Project £25m - - Covid-19 and Construction RAF Sealand 283 £30m Jul 19 Jan 22 Interchange Central Square, Cardiff Offices £5.7m Jan 20 Jan 23 Pinfold Lane – integrated waste mgmt facility £20m - - Churchlands phase 3, Cardiff 271 £27.1m Sep 19 Sep 24 Hodge House, Cardiff Offices £5.5m Feb 19 - Alwens Forest Project £20m Apr 20 - Methodology Llanwern Village phase 3A, Newport 203 £20.3m Oct 19 Oct 22 Crown Buildings, Bridgend Offices £5m Oct 19 Jul 20 East Rhyl coastal defence scheme £18m Apr 20 Oct 21 Howard Gardens student accommodation - £20m Dec 18 Apr 20 Penrhos Industrial Estate, Anglesey Offices £4m - - Churchlands Development – highways £10m Aug 18 Aug 28 Bradley Court student accommodation - £20m Mar 19 Mar 21 Llandeilo Road, Cross Hands, Dyfed Retail £3m Jan 19 Jul 19 Swansea Central infrastructure works £10m Jun 19 Dec 20 Parc Eirin, Porth 225 £19m Jul 19 Jan 24 Flint Retail Park – 4 retail Retail £3m Jul 19 Nov 19 Hook and Johnston – water quality contract £8.5m Jun 18 Jun 19 Phase 2C Glan Llyn, Newport 152 £15.2m Jul 19 Jul 22 Newport Road Retail Park 2 Retail £3m Aug 19 May 20 Swansea Central phase 1 – car parking £7m Sep 19 Sep 21 BROUGHT TO YOU BY

Source: Barbour ABI, CPA Source: Barbour ABI, CPA Source: Barbour ABI, CPA UK Construction FOCUS ON… Hotspots West Midlands REPORT 2020 To navigate just click on buttons below and they will take you directly The West Midlands region accounts for 7.4% of UK GVA. Key GVA per GVA growth Construction Unemployment Construction Construction Contracts Awards sectors of regional economic activity are industrial production head 2013-2018 % of GVA rate GVA (2018) Growth (2018) Growth (2019) to your chosen section. and manufacturing, public administration and distribution UK Average 28,729 20.0% 6.1% 3.9 115,978 3.3% 0.5% Home and transport. Construction GVA growth was 3.6% in 2018. West Midlands 23,964 23.9% 6.0% 4.8 8,548 3.6% -19.3% Introduction Construction accounted for 6.0% of regional GVA. The value Herefordshire, County of 20,461 15.2% 5.2% 2.3 206 13.8% -24.6% Overview of contracts awarded in the region totalled £3.7 billion in 2019, Worcestershire 22,767 17.5% 5.6% 3.3 750 13.5% -13.3% Key regional hotspots which was 19.3% lower than the value in the previous year. Warwickshire 34,294 30.2% 6.6% 2.3 1,289 -6.7% -35.5% In terms of overall contract awards, there was one hotspot: Key regional coldspots Telford and Wrekin 27,501 40.9% 3.5% 4.3 172 -2.3% -71.6% Stoke-on-Trent, and three coldspots: Coventry, Telford and Shropshire CC 19,334 15.3% 8.2% 2.5 509 5.8% 13.5% REGION FOCUS… Wrekin, and Wolverhampton. Stoke-on-Trent 22,149 23.1% 5.2% 4.2 297 -7.8% 52.2% East of England Staffordshire CC 20,545 15.4% 8.9% 3.1 1,606 7.4% -8.5% East Midlands Birmingham 25,477 24.0% 5.5% 8.6 1,598 16.1% 12.8% London Despite their huge growth in 2018, Dudley Solihull 45,995 53.4% 4.8% 3.8 471 -15.4% -37.3% North East recorded the lowest growth in the region Coventry 25,972 22.2% 2.6% 5.3 244 19.6% -27.2% North West for 2019, decreasing by 86% Dudley 17,575 26.3% 7.8% 4.7 439 -0.2% -86.0% Scotland Sandwell 19,325 39.7% 5.5% 5.2 351 10.7% 89.4% South East Walsall 15,991 19.9% 7.8% 6.7 352 5.4% -60.1% South West Wolverhampton 17,938 -0.1% 5.6% 6.8 263 -17.8% -29.3% Wales Source: Barbour ABI, CPA , ONS West Midlands Yorkshire & Humber

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CONTINUED UK Construction FOCUS ON…WEST MIDLANDS HEAT SCALE -5 -4 -3 -2 -1 0 1 2 3 4 5 Hotspots REPORT 2020 Residential Commercial Infrastructure To navigate just click on buttons £1.5 billion worth of residential contracts were Commercial contract awards totalled £313 million Contract awards for infrastructure projects in the below and they will take you directly awarded in the West Midlands region in in 2019, 22.7% lower than the value in West Midlands region totalled £401 million in to your chosen section. 2019, 13.7% lower than 2018. Shropshire CC and 2019, which was 33.8% lower STOKE-ON-TRENT STOKE-ON-TRENT STOKE-ON-TRENT Home the value awarded Walsall were commercial than the value awarded in Introduction in 2018. Sandwell hotspots, and although 2018. Solihull was the only Overview and Stoke-on-Trent LICHFIELD there were no coldspots, LICHFIELD hotspot, which captures LICHFIELD were hotspots, whilst WOLVERHAMPTON contract awards WOLVERHAMPTON earthworks and enabling WOLVERHAMPTON Key regional hotspots BIRMINGHAM BIRMINGHAM BIRMINGHAM Coventry, Dudley elsewhere were slightly works for phase 1 of Key regional coldspots COVENTRY COVENTRY COVENTRY and Staffordshire below the long-term HS2. Wolverhampton CC were coldspots. average. Major contracts was a coldspot. REGION FOCUS… WORCESTER WORCESTER WORCESTER Contracts awarded reflected the ongoing East of England include the £125 million HEREFORD redevelopment of HEREFORD HEREFORD East Midlands redevelopment of the SK Birmingham city centre London cash & carry building and and included One Centenary Harpers Hill, also £125 million. Both Way (£40 million), Eastside Locks North East are in Birmingham. (£35 million) and the £16 million fit-out of HMRC’s new North West regional centre. Scotland South East South West TOP TOP TOP Residential Contracts Commercial Contracts Infrastructure Contracts Wales The top 10 residential contracts by value of project. The top 10 commercial contracts by value of project. The top 10 infrastructure contracts by value of project. 10 10 10 West Midlands

Project Units Value Start Finish Project Type Value Start Finish Project Value Start Finish Yorkshire & Humber

S.K Building – redevelopment 517 £125m Oct 19 - Paradise Circus – One Centenary Way Offices £40m Oct 19 - Westside extension – phase 3 – Edgbaston £83m Jan 19 Dec 21 Harpers Hill, Northwood & Newhall St 305 £125m Jan 20 Jan 23 Eastside Locks, Belmont Works Offices £35m Oct 19 Oct 21 A46 Binley junction Coventry £61m Mar 20 Mar 22 CASE STUDY… Ashlawn Road, Warwickshire 860 £80m - - Park Lane, Nechells Offices £19.5m Jul 19 Jan 21 Rugby motorway service area £27m Mar 19 Jul 20 Covid-19 and Construction Eastside Locks – plots D, E & F 769 £61.5m Jan 20 Jan 23 HMRC – Regional Centre Birmingham Offices £16m Jan 20 Nov 20 Chatterley Valley development £16m Oct 19 Oct 20 Gallows Hill, Leamington Spa 375 £37.5m - - Fort Retail Shopping Park – refurb Retail £15m May 19 May 21 Meriden Quarry – South West extension £15m - - Methodology Eccleshall Road, Stone – phase 2 & 3 302 £30.2m Aug 19 Aug 26 WM Morrisons – Shrewsbury Road Retail £14m Mar 19 Mar 20 Nuckle rail improvements Coventry £12m Mar 19 Apr 20 Plough Hill Road, Nuneaton 300 £30m Jul 19 Jul 23 Sinclair Retail Park Retail £14m Oct 18 - HS2 phase 1 (Northern Section) earthworks £11m May 16 Nov 20 The Marches, Wolverhampton 266 £30m May 19 May 22 Belgrade Plaza, Coventry Retail £9m - - A38 Bromsgrove improvements – phase 1 £10m Apr 19 - A40 Site , Ross-On-Wye 290 £30m Jun 19 Jun 22 Tern Valley Business Park – phase 2 Retail £6.9m - - HS2 phase 1 enabling works North £10m - - London Road student apartments 499 £27m Feb 19 Jul 20 Herefordshire Council Shell Store Offices £6m Feb 19 Feb 20 Lichfield Southern bypass – final phase £8m Jun 19 Nov 21 BROUGHT TO YOU BY

Source: Barbour ABI, CPA Source: Barbour ABI, CPA Source: Barbour ABI, CPA UK Construction FOCUS ON… Hotspots Yorkshire & Humber REPORT 2020 To navigate just click on buttons below and they will take you directly The Yorkshire and Humber region accounts for 6.5% of total UK GVA per GVA growth Construction Unemployment Construction Construction Contracts Awards GVA. Key sectors of regional economic activity are industrial head 2013-2018 % of GVA rate GVA (2018) Growth (2018) Growth (2019) to your chosen section. production and manufacturing, distribution and transport UK Average 28,729 20.0% 6.1% 3.9 115,978 3.3% 0.5% Home and public administration. Construction grew 2.9% in 2018 Yorkshire and the Humber 22,559 18.1% 6.2% 4.4 7,620 2.9% -4.7% Introduction and accounted for 6.2% of regional GVA. The value of contracts Kingston upon Hull, City of 23,708 15.3% 5.3% 7.8 326 -4.4% -18.3% Overview awarded totalled £4.2 billion in 2019, a decrease of 4.7% from the East Riding of Yorkshire 20,191 22.2% 5.1% 3.4 350 0.9% 14.3% Key regional hotspots previous year. In terms of overall contract awards, the East Riding North and North East Lincolnshire 21,674 16.6% 7.8% 5.0 559 8.8% -38.5% of Yorkshire was a hotspot, but contract awards in Sheffield were Key regional coldspots York 30,258 13.7% 5.4% 2.6 342 6.2% 10.6% below the long-term average value. North Yorkshire CC 23,376 18.6% 5.5% 1.7 794 -1.6% 7.1% REGION FOCUS… Barnsley, Doncaster and Rotherham 17,891 23.1% 10.0% 6.0 1,462 9.8% -26.1% East of England Sheffield 21,698 11.3% 4.9% 4.3 620 -8.4% -28.5% East Midlands After their poor performance in 2018, Bradford 17,651 11.0% 4.0% 6.6 380 -3.8% -1.5% London Leeds returned to the top spot with a 30.3% 33,247 20.9% 5.5% 4.1 1,451 4.2% 30.3% Leeds North East growth in contracts awarded in 2019 Calderdale and Kirklees 18,827 21.9% 5.9% 2.8 725 3.3% -13.0% North West Wakefield 21,492 17.3% 8.3% 5.3 612 5.7% -4.3% Scotland Source: Barbour ABI, CPA , ONS South East South West Wales West Midlands Yorkshire & Humber

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CONTINUED UK Construction FOCUS ON…YORKSHIRE & HUMBER HEAT SCALE -5 -4 -3 -2 -1 0 1 2 3 4 5 Hotspots REPORT 2020 Residential Commercial Infrastructure To navigate just click on buttons £1.6 billion worth of Commercial contract awards Contract awards for below and they will take you directly residential contracts totalled £270 million in infrastructure projects to your chosen section. were awarded in the 2019, 0.4% higher than in the Yorkshire and Home Yorkshire and RIPON in 2018. York and RIPON Humber region RIPON Introduction Humber in 2019, Kingston upon Hull totalled £1.1 billion Overview a decrease of 3.0% YORK were hotspots, and YORK in 2019, 10.4% above YORK BRADFORD BRADFORD BRADFORD LEEDS LEEDS LEEDS Key regional hotspots compared to the value KINGSTON there were no coldspots. KINGSTON the 2018 level. The East KINGSTON UPON HULL UPON HULL UPON HULL awarded in 2018. Leeds The largest commercial Riding of Yorkshire and Key regional coldspots WAKEFIELD WAKEFIELD WAKEFIELD was the sole residential project was the £50 million North Yorkshire CC were hotspot, with Sheffield, and Hatfield Lane offices building hotspot. These sub-regions REGION FOCUS…

SHEFFIELD SHEFFIELD SHEFFIELD Calderdale and Kirklees registering in Doncaster. included the £200 million East of England as coldspots. Leeds accounted for six Transpennine rail upgrade east of East Midlands of the top ten largest contract awards. Leeds and the £100 million Easington Terminal onshore London pipeline. There were no infrastructure coldspots. North East North West Scotland South East South West TOP TOP TOP Residential Contracts Commercial Contracts Infrastructure Contracts Wales The top 10 residential contracts by value of project. The top 10 commercial contracts by value of project. The top 10 infrastructure contracts by value of project. 10 10 10 West Midlands

Project Units Value Start Finish Project Type Value Start Finish Project Value Start Finish Yorkshire & Humber

Uni of Campus residences - £113m Feb 20 Feb 22 Hatfield Lane, Doncaster Offices £50m Jul 19 - Transpennine upgrade – East of Leeds £200m Apr 19 - Swinnow Park, Wetherby - £90m Jan 20 - Blackfriar Gate, Hull Offices £16m Nov 19 Nov 20 Able Marine Energy Park – main quay £165m Jan 20 Jan 22 CASE STUDY… Northallerton Dev Area phase 2 246 £75m Jan 20 Jan 25 Monks Cross Shopping Park Retail £10m Mar 19 Mar 20 Leeds flood alleviation: part 2 £102m Oct 19 Oct 23 Covid-19 and Construction Saxton Lane, Leeds 349 £65m Sep 19 Sep 21 Rotary Way Retail Park Retail £10m May 19 Jan 20 Easington Terminal onshore pipeline £100m - Dec 20 Laneside Farm, Morley 526 £52m Oct 19 Oct 26 Sovereign House extension and refurb Offices £9m - - East Leeds Orbital Road dual carriageway £87m Mar 19 Mar 22 Methodology Radial Park, Manston Lane 452 £50m May 20 May 25 Heart of the City, Sheffield Offices £9m Jun 19 York Potash Project – Lockwood Beck Farm £50m Oct 18 Apr 20 Heathlands at City Fields 334 £33.4m Nov 19 - Delta Engineering Group – workshops Offices £6.5m Dec 18 Dec 19 Victoria Pier & Nelson St flood defence scheme £42m Dec 19 - Forge development phase 2 135 £30m Feb 19 Feb 21 Dobroyd Mills, Hepworth Offices £6.4m - - Saltend sewage & sludge treatment project £30m Dec 18 Aug 20 Fitzwilliam Street student accommodation - £30m Apr 19 Apr 21 Western House Stables, Melsonby Offices £5.6m Nov 19 - Leeds Bradford International Airport extension £28m Jul 19 Jul 20 Bingley Street – The Refinery students 407 £30m Feb 19 Aug 20 Union Mills, Harrogate Road Retail £5m Feb 19 Feb 20 Beighton & Woodhouse re-signalling £25m Jul 19 - BROUGHT TO YOU BY

Source: Barbour ABI, CPA Source: Barbour ABI, CPA Source: Barbour ABI, CPA UK Construction CASE STUDY… Hotspots Covid-19 and Construction REPORT 2020 To navigate just click on buttons In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, the UK economy entered London accounted for 29% of delayed projects at peak and given the below and they will take you directly Peak in value of projects paused by region Week ending Value lockdown from 23 March until a loosening in restrictions from mid-May. wider restrictions on construction work put in place by the Scottish to your chosen section. East Midlands 24 April £3.0bn The government confirmed that construction was permitted to continue Government, Scotland accounted for the next highest proportion at 23%. Home East of England 17 April £4.8bn throughout this period. However, activity was paused on sites across Introduction Nationally, the value of restarted projects overtook the value of delayed London 10 April £20.9bn sectors and regions of the country as social distancing measures were projects at the end of May, following on from the easing of restrictions in Overview implemented on site and for workers and deliveries travelling to sites. North East 17 April £2.4bn mid-May encouraging a wider return to site. Not surprisingly, restarts in Key regional hotspots According to the ONS, in the second quarter of 2020, construction North West 01 May £5.9bn Scotland did not reach this point until early July. Key regional coldspots output declined 35.0% compared to three months earlier, including a Scotland 10 April £16.6bn 40.2% monthly fall in April, as the only full month in which lockdown South East 24 April £5.9bn REGION FOCUS… restrictions were in place. In Scotland, only health-related new build South West 24 April £4.3bn Peak in value of projects paused by sector East of England construction and essential maintenance was permitted to take place, – Great Britain Week ending Value Wales 24 April £1.1bn with these restrictions in place for longer, until mid-June. East Midlands Residential 17 April £38.6bn West Midlands 01 May £3.1bn London There was close to £60 billion in contract awards in 2019 and the pause Commercial 10 April £8.8bn Yorkshire & Humber 17 April £3.2bn in construction is likely to have affected progress on the contracts Infrastructure 10 April £14.8bn Great Britain 17 April £70.7bn North East covered in this publication, either through pauses on site or delays FIG 2.1 FIG 2.2 North West to start dates. Construction work underway in 2020 will also reflect Source: Barbour ABI Source: Barbour ABI Scotland contracts awarded across other years, depending on the size of the South East 100 South West Wales In the second quarter of 2020, construction output 80 n) declined 35.0% compared to three months earlier, West Midlands billio 60 (£ Yorkshire & Humber including a 40.2% monthly fall in April Delayed

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CONTINUED UK Construction CASE STUDY…COVID-19 AND CONSTRUCTION Hotspots REPORT 2020 Residential Commercial Infrastructure To navigate just click on buttons Housing market activity was restricted between the end of March and mid- Delayed commercial projects peaked at a value of £8.8 billion, holding The value of paused infrastructure projects peaked at £14.8 billion at the below and they will take you directly May, with viewings, surveys and house moves put on hold, and show homes at this level throughout much of April. The return to activity appears to beginning of April, but the number of paused projects peaked at the end to your chosen section. and sales offices closed. Correspondingly, delays peaked at £38.6 billion have been widespread across regions. At the end of May, only London and of April, at 572, suggesting that higher-value projects restarted earlier. This Home on 2,624 projects, in mid-April. Sites began to reopen towards the end of Scotland recorded that delayed project values were above normal levels is likely to reflect that work on these projects is likely to be spread across Introduction April, with activity limited to builders and contractors putting procedures in of activity. In contrast, Wales had significantly lower values of delayed outdoor sites, where it is easier to implement social distancing measures. place for social distancing. With show homes and sales offices given the all- projects compared to normal regional activity. Overview However, there were regional variations in the speed of reopening and clear for reopening on 13 May, this loosening of restrictions on sales-related Key regional hotspots By the beginning of July, the value of delayed projects was significantly restarting projects. At the end of May, delayed projects were significantly activity drove the subsequent sharp decrease in delayed projects. Key regional coldspots below normal activity in Wales, East Midlands, East of England, the North above normal levels of activity in London and Scotland, reflecting wider By the end of May, tracking data confirmed that the value of delayed East, North West, and West Midlands. Only activity in Scotland remained restrictions on construction in place in Scotland and pauses to indoor REGION FOCUS… projects was significantly above the value of normal residential activity constrained by project delays. projects in London including . At this point, delayed projects levels in Scotland, and moderately above normal in the East Midlands, accounted for significantly less of activity in the East Midlands, North East, East of England East of England, North East, and South West. At the beginning of July, only Wales and Yorkshire and Humber. East Midlands Scotland was still recording a significant level of delayed projects. At the beginning of July, only activity in Scotland was still affected by London widespread delays. North East North West Scotland Residential Contracts Commercial Contracts Infrastructure Contracts South East Value of delayed, open and restarted projects, Mar-Aug 2020. Value of delayed, open and restarted projects, Mar-Aug 2020. Value of delayed, open* and restarted projects, Mar-Aug 2020. South West 50 10 20 Wales West Midlands 40 8 15 Yorkshire & Humber n) n) n) 30 6 CASE STUDY… billio billio billio (£ (£ (£ Delayed Delayed 10 Delayed Covid-19 and Construction

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Source: Barbour ABI Source: Barbour ABI *excluding Hinkley Point £23 billion Source: Barbour ABI UK Construction METHODOLOGY… Hotspots Calculating a hotspot or coldspot REPORT 2020 To navigate just click on buttons The ONS releases construction output data for Great Britain on a inflation or deflation. The measure of heat indicates how the value below and they will take you directly monthly and quarterly basis, and a regional breakdown of construction of contracts awarded in 2018 compares with the long-term annual to your chosen section. activity is reported three months following the end of the reference average, on a scale of –5 to +5: -5 being ‘very cold’, or significantly below Home quarter. This regional data is only available on a non-seasonally adjusted the long-term average; +5 being ‘very hot’, or significantly above the Introduction basis and in current prices, making analysis more difficult than for long-term average. Overview national output data, which is available in constant price terms to Key regional hotspots indicate volumes of work. Regional breakdown Key regional coldspots Given the lags in reporting actual volumes of construction work Regions in Great Britain have been broken down based on the Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS) level 3 groupings. completed, and the difficulties in measuring activity on a regional basis, REGION FOCUS… this research seeks to identify regional ‘hotspots’ – where the value of This is one level above local authority-level data and is the EU and East of England construction contracts awarded in 2019 is above its historical average. Eurostat standard for the subdivision of countries for statistical purposes. East Midlands This forward-looking approach aims to signpost areas of strength for There are 174 NUTS3 regions in the UK, although the regions in this report London construction over the next 12 months. cover the 168 regions in Great Britain only, to match the geographical North East The analysis in this publication compares the value of construction coverage of construction output data from the ONS. North West contracts awarded in 2019 with the average (median) value of contract awards over the last four years across the residential, commercial and Sector breakdown Scotland infrastructure sectors. If 2019 contract values are significantly above The analysis is broken down to show contract awards in the three largest South East the long-term average, then this is considered a hotspot. Conversely, a construction sectors: residential, commercial and infrastructure. South West region is considered a coldspot if 2019 contract values are significantly Residential: housing (private developments), student accommodation, Wales below the long-term average. new build, conversions and change of use West Midlands Methodology Commercial: offices, retail, supermarkets Yorkshire & Humber

The hotspots are calculated using Barbour ABI data on contract awards, Infrastructure: railways and stations, roads, bridges, ports, harbours CASE STUDY… based on actual contract values, which have not been adjusted for and waterways, energy and utilities Covid-19 and Construction

Methodology Regions in Great Britain have been broken down based on the Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS) level 3 groupings, covering 168 regions in Great Britain

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