UK Construction Hotspots REPORT 2018

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Home Overview Key regional hotspots Regional Construction Key regional coldspots REGION FOCUS… East of England Hotspots in Great Britain 2018 East Midlands London 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 OVERVIEW… Hotspots The UK Construction Industry REPORT 2018 To navigate just click on buttons London is the UK’s largest regional economy and construction gross activity in 2016. Parts of the West Midlands and South West complete below and they will take you directly Construction GVA in 2016 £m value added (GVA) in 2016 (the latest available from the top ten list, underscoring the fact that there are large areas of to your chosen section. London 19,470 the ONS) was £19.5 billion, accounting for activity beyond the traditional engines of growth. South East 17,501 Home 18% of the UK total. With a construction This piece of work seeks to analyse construction contract awards on East of England 12,250 Overview GVA of £17.5 billion, the South East a high level of regional granularity, firstly to identify pockets accounts for a similar proportion of North West 9,383 Key regional hotspots of growth or contraction – hotspots and coldspots – in UK construction (16%), which can lead South West 9,309 Key regional coldspots regional activity and secondly, to offer a forward-looking to bias in perceptions of growth and Scotland 8,448 indication of growth by region and by sector. One of the activity in other regions of the country West Midlands 8,299 REGION FOCUS… challenges in using such granular data is the large lags in (see fig. 1.1). Indeed, when thinking about Yorkshire and the Humber 7,532 East of England regional construction activity, the relative East Midlands 7,221 East Midlands size of the London and South East economies, London is again the UK’s largest regional Wales 3,814 populations and concentration of the London economy and construction gross value North East 3,019 services-based industry, it is easy to think that North East added (GVA) in 2016 was £19.47 billion FIG 1.1 the majority of construction work is taking place in North West these regions. Source: ONS Scotland By using ONS regional economic data, it becomes clear that reporting of official output data, as evidenced Construction GVA in 2016 – Top 10 £m Region South East despite its overall dominance, there were only three London by the most recent macroeconomic data Hertfordshire 3,209 East of England South West sub-regions in the top ten largest local authority areas for published by the ONS being for 2016. By West Surrey 1,804 South East using data on contract awards over 2017, Wales Berkshire 1,759 South East this will highlight construction West Midlands In 2016 Hertfordshire yet again recorded work ahead, rather than Westminster 1,605 London Yorkshire & Humber the largest value of construction activity reporting on activity is Harrow and Hillingdon 1,534 London Oxfordshire 1,461 South East past periods that may not CASE STUDY… ★ be relevant. Devon CC 1,460 South West HS2 Hubs construction activity in 2016: Westminster, Harrow Staffordshire CC 1,437 West Midlands and Hillingdon, and Camden and City of London (see Camden and City of London 1,425 London Methodology fig. 1.2). Similarly, three sub-regions in the South East Bath and NE Somerset, N Somerset and 1,416 South West feature in this ranking. Furthermore, it is Hertfordshire, S Gloucestershire About the CPA in the East of England, which is recorded as the FIG 1.2 sub-region with the largest value of construction Source: ONS BROUGHT TO YOU BY

CONTINUED UK Construction CONTINUED…THE UK CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY Hotspots REPORT 2018 What is a hotspot or a coldspot? region in terms of construction activity (£49 million in 2016), but was the fastest-growing region in terms of contract awards in 2017, pushed up by To navigate just click on buttons Hotspots and coldspots seek to identify regions where contract awards a single residential contract award, in a region with total contract awards below and they will take you directly in 2017 were significantly above or below previous years, highlighting to your chosen section. pockets of activity of contraction in construction activity over the near- ▲ term horizon. Home Orkney Islands recorded the largest growth in Overview As discussed, some regions of the country host more construction contract awards in 2017, with an increase of 1472% activity than others. Camden and the City of London, for example, was Key regional hotspots the ninth largest in terms of construction GVA in 2016. In 2017, it was also Key regional coldspots in the top 30 largest regions in terms of the value of contracts awarded. of just £78 million (see fig. 1.4 & 1.5). Large growth rates or contractions However, this was 40% below the value of contracts awarded in the themselves do not necessarily signify a hotspot or coldspot, which is REGION FOCUS… previous year and below the long-term average, so whilst it is a large a key consideration for regions hosting small volumes of construction East of England source of construction work, it is not a hotspot region experiencing work, where growth rates on annual basis can be volatile. East Midlands growth (see fig. 1.3). The analysis in this publication compares the value of construction London There may also be regions that have recorded strong growth in the value contracts awarded in 2017 with the average value of contract awards over North East of contracts awarded, but account for a small proportion of overall the last four years across the residential, commercial and infrastructure activity. For example, the Orkney Islands was the second-smallest sectors. If 2017 contract values are significantly above the long-term North West Scotland South East The value of contract awards in 2017 – Top 10 £m Annual % change Growth in contract awards in 2017 – Top 10 £m Annual % change South West Birmingham 3,800 93% Orkney Islands 78 1472%

Leeds 3,060 374% Leeds 3,060 374% Wales

Westminster 2,029 68% Wandsworth 1,191 359% ▼ West Midlands

West Northamptonshire 1,808 198% Brighton and Hove 422 303% Yorkshire & Humber

Tower Hamlets 1,756 -8% Southend-on-Sea 87 291%

Hounslow and Richmond upon Thames 1,755 148% Gwent Valleys 145 253% CASE STUDY…

Manchester 1,698 17% Clackmannanshire and Fife 351 244% HS2 Hubs

Warwickshire 1,628 118% Essex Haven Gateway 1,093 243%

Haringey and Islington 1,288 179% Barnsley, Doncaster and Rotherham 1,029 209% Methodology

Wandsworth 1,191 359% West Northamptonshire 1,808 198% About the CPA

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CONTINUED UK Construction CONTINUED…THE UK CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY Hotspots REPORT 2018 average, then this is considered a hotspot. Conversely, a region is due to a single large project in one sector. Although these may be viewed Falls in contract awards in 2017 – Top 10 £m Annual % change considered cold if 2017 contract values are signifi cantly below the as skewing results, they still represent a signifi cant driver of regional To navigate just click on buttons Isle of Anglesey 34 -93% long-term average. growth and activity alongside a key driver of hotspots throughout the below and they will take you directly Norwich and East Norfolk 293 -89% to your chosen section. country. These tend to be high-value transport or utilities projects in the There are clear hotspots for upcoming construction activity over the Peterborough 34 -87% infrastructure sector where contracts are awarded, but take time to build next 6-12 months in Great Britain. There were no broad hotspots in 2017 Home Inverness & Nairn and Moray, Badenoch & out. The award of contracts for phase 1 of HS2 in 2017 Q3 has produced 343 -83% – where contract awards in each of the three main construction sectors Strathspey Overview clear infrastructure hotspots along the route from London to the West Darlington 29 -82% Midlands (see fi g. 1.6). In smaller sub-regions, large off ices, retail and Key regional hotspots Powys 62 -81% Despite being top last year, the Isle of Anglesey residential projects can also generate hotspots. Key regional coldspots W a k e fi e l d 141 -72% recorded the lowest growth in contract awards in 2017 The Regional Construction Hotspots report also covers coldspots. Flintshire and Wrexham 90 -71% REGION FOCUS… with a decrease of 93% Coldspots also feature across Great Britain and across the three main Kensington & Chelsea and Hammersmith & Fulham 318 -70% East of England construction sectors. In London, however, coldspots are clustered in Walsall 42 -70% the residential sector, across inner and outer boroughs of the capital. East Midlands FIG 1.5 of residential, commercial and infrastructure are signifi cantly above the Residential contract awards in 2017 were signifi cantly lower than in 2016 London long-term average and nine regions with hotspots in two sectors. Where in 18 out of 21 sub-regions of the capital, suggesting that house builders Source: Barbour ABI North East hotspots were restricted to a single construction sector, they were spread are focusing on the build-out of schemes awarded contracts in 2015 and across the regions of Great Britain. Construction hotspots may also show 2016, rather than new project starts. North West Single projects driving hotspots £m Area Scotland Transpennine Rail route upgrade 2,250 Leeds South East Birmingham Spur (HS2) 1,500 Birmingham

Hounslow and Richmond South West Chiltern Tunnels (HS2) 1,300 upon Thames The award of contracts Wales North portal of Chiltern Tunnel (HS2) 1,300 West Northamptonshire for phase 1 of HS2 in West Midlands Delta Junction (HS2) 1,300 Birmingham 2017 Q3 has produced Yorkshire & Humber Euston tunnels and approaches (HS2) 900 Haringey and Islington clear infrastructure Long Itchington Wood Tunnel (HS2) 900 Warwickshire hotspots along the CASE STUDY… Rivenhall integrated waste management 679 Essex Haven Gateway route from London to facility HS2 Hubs East Midlands Gateway – rail freight Leicestershire CC the West Midlands 558 interchange and Rutland Methodology Riverside Energy Park, Belvedere 500 Bexley and Greenwich About the CPA FIG 1.6

Source: Barbour ABI BROUGHT TO YOU BY UK Construction EXECUTIVE SUMMARY… Hotspots Key Regional Hotspots by Sector REPORT 2018 To navigate just click on buttons Hotspots can be driven by a large number of below and they will take you directly East Midlands Scotland South West projects awarded contracts in a region, or by a single to your chosen section. Leicestershire CC and Rutland Infrastructure East Lothian and Midlothian Residential Bath and North East Somerset, North Commercial large project. Manchester is a residential hotspot, Somerset and South Gloucestershire Nottingham Commercial Eilean Siar (Western Isles) Infrastructure Home for example, driven by the award of contracts Bournemouth and Poole Infrastructure West Northamptonshire Infrastructure Inverness & Nairn and Moray, Badenoch Residential Overview for the regeneration of the city centre, and five & Strathspey Commercial City of Bristol Infrastructure contracts ranging in value between £77 million and Key regional hotspots Infrastructure Commercial London North Lanarkshire Devon CC £235 million for developments in Circle Square, Key regional coldspots Orkney Islands Residential Dorset CC Commercial Portugal Street East, Princess Street and Jacksons Bexley and Greenwich Infrastructure Perth & Kinross and Stirling Infrastructure Somerset Infrastructure Row. The status of Leeds as an infrastructure Croydon Commercial REGION FOCUS… Residential Scottish Borders Residential Swindon Commercial hotspot, on the other hand, is driven by the contract Haringey and Islington Infrastructure East of England Shetland Islands Commercial Residential award for the Transpennine rail route upgrade – the Wiltshire Residential Commercial East Midlands Hounslow and Richmond upon Thames South Ayrshire Residential largest contract awarded in 2017 at £2.25 billion. Infrastructure Six contract awards for HS2, at values of around London Wales South East £1 billion each, produced infrastructure hotspots in North East North East Bridgend and Neath Port Talbot Commercial Brighton and Hove Commercial Birmingham, Warwickshire, West Northamptonshire, South Teesside Commercial Central Valleys Infrastructure North West Haringey & Islington and Hounslow & Richmond Central Hampshire Commercial Tyneside Infrastructure Gwynedd Commercial Scotland upon Thames. Half of the sub-regions in the North East Kent Infrastructure Isle of Angelsey Commercial South East West and two-thirds of the sub-regions in the South North West Mid Kent Commercial Residential West were hotspots. Powys South West Blackburn with Darwen Residential Milton Keynes Commercial Commercial

A summary of key regional hotspots by sector is Residential South Hampshire Infrastructure Infrastructure Wales Blackpool Swansea Commercial shown here. West Sussex (North East) Infrastructure West Midlands Greater Manchester North East Commercial West Sussex (South West) Commercial West Midlands Yorkshire & Humber Greater Manchester South East Infrastructure East of England Birmingham Infrastructure Commercial Greater Manchester South West Infrastructure Essex Haven Gateway Coventry Infrastructure CASE STUDY… Infrastructure Lancaster and Wyre Commercial Sandwell Infrastructure Essex Thames Gateway Commercial HS2 Hubs Commercial Liverpool Stoke-on-Trent Infrastructure Southend-on-Sea Commercial Infrastructure Warwickshire Infrastructure Methodology Residential Manchester Residential Suffolk Commercial Sefton Infrastructure About the CPA Thurrock Commercial Yorkshire & Humber Warrington Commercial Barnsley, Doncaster and Rotherham Commercial BROUGHT TO YOU BY Bradford Infrastructure

Leeds Infrastructure UK Construction EXECUTIVE SUMMARY… Hotspots Key Regional Coldspots by Sector REPORT 2018 To navigate just click on buttons There were fewer coldspots than hotspots across below and they will take you directly East of England North West South West Great Britain in 2017 and there was only one broad to your chosen section. Breckland and South Norfolk Commercial Chorley and West Lancashire Residential Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Residential coldspot – Walsall – where contract awards in all Central Bedfordshire Residential East Lancashire Residential Swindon Residential Home three residential, commercial and infrastructure Peterborough Residential Lancaster and Wyre Infrastructure Overview sectors were below the long-term average. Most Wales other coldspots were limited to a single construction Liverpool Residential Key regional hotspots Residential East Midlands Wirral Commercial Cardiff and Vale of Glamorgan sector, most notably residential in London, where Commercial Key regional coldspots Leicester Residential over 80% of the capital’s sub-regions recorded a fall Conwy and Denbighshire Residential in contract values and two-fifths recorded residential South and West Derbyshire Infrastructure Scotland REGION FOCUS… Flintshire and Wrexham Residential E Dunbartonshire, W Dunbartonshire contracts below the long-term average. There were South Nottinghamshire Commercial Commercial East of England and Helensburgh & Lomond no coldspots in the North East. Residential West Northamptonshire West Midlands East Ayrshire and North Ayrshire East Midlands Infrastructure A summary of key regional coldspots by sector is mainland Solihull Residential London London Lochaber, Skye & Lochalsh, Arran & shown here. Residential Residential Brent Residential Cumbrae and Argyll & Bute Walsall Commercial North East Infrastructure Residential Orkney Islands Commercial Bromley North West Infrastructure Scottish Borders Infrastructure Scotland Camden and City of London Residential Yorkshire & Humber South Ayrshire Commercial Croydon Residential City of Kingston upon Hull Commercial South East South Lanarkshire Infrastructure Hackney and Newham Residential North and North East Lincolnshire Residential South West West Lothian Commercial Lambeth Residential Wakefield Residential Wales Lewisham and Southwark Residential South East West Midlands Redbridge and Waltham Forest Residential Berkshire Commercial Yorkshire & Humber Westminster Residential Milton Keynes Residential

North Hampshire Commercial CASE STUDY… North East HS2 Hubs No major coldspots

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BROUGHT TO YOU BY UK Construction FOCUS ON… Hotspots East of England REPORT 2018 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 2011-2016 % of GVA rate GVA (2016) Growth (2016) Growth (2017) to your chosen section. production and manufacturing, distribution and transport, public UK Average 26,584 19.8% 6.2% 4.4 108,124 6.0% 4.3% Home administration and business services. Construction grew 2.4% East of England 24,488 21.1% 8.2% 3.6 12,250 2.4% -28.9% Overview in 2016 and accounted for 8.2% of total East of England GVA in Peterborough 28,544 25.6% 4.1% 6.0 229 -3.0% -87.2% Key regional hotspots that year. The value of contracts awarded in the region totalled Cambridgeshire CC 28,984 22.0% 5.1% 1.7 971 -0.6% -27.6% £5.1 billion in 2017, a decrease of 28.9% from the previous year. Key regional coldspots Suffolk 23,132 16.0% 7.0% 4.0 1,210 2.5% -10.0% There were four hotspots in terms of overall contract awards: Norwich and East Norfolk 22,664 15.8% 6.2% 6.3 516 3.4% -89.4% Bedford, Essex Haven Gateway, Southend-on-Sea and North REGION FOCUS… North and West Norfolk 19,043 18.2% 7.7% 2.0 373 2.8% 94.9% and West Norfolk. West Essex was a coldspot based on overall East of England Breckland and South Norfolk 19,466 20.0% 7.5% 3.5 392 1.3% -68.4% contract awards. Luton 24,563 23.5% 6.6% 6.0 353 0.0% -36.7% East Midlands

Hertfordshire 30,564 25.9% 8.9% 3.0 3,209 5.1% -25.4% London Despite having the largest growth in contracts Bedford 23,941 19.9% 6.6% 2.6 266 1.5% 156.7% North East awarded in 2016, in 2017 Norwich and East Norfolk Central Bedfordshire 20,383 23.7% 10.0% 3.3 569 1.8% -32.4% North West Southend-on-Sea 18,111 17.4% 8.0% 4.2 259 1.6% 290.7% had the lowest growth, decreasing by 89.4% Scotland Thurrock 21,076 15.3% 9.9% 4.2 347 7.4% 65.2% South East Essex Haven Gateway 19,424 18.4% 10.4% 4.7 967 -0.7% 243.0% South West West Essex 26,431 26.7% 11.0% 3.4 876 1.6% -28.6%

Heart of Essex 25,205 19.6% 11.3% 4.6 895 2.3% -7.3% Wales

Essex Thames Gateway 19,196 14.7% 11.9% 2.5 818 1.4% 39.2% West Midlands

Source: Barbour ABI, CPA, ONS Yorkshire & Humber

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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 2018 Residential Commercial Infrastructure To navigate just click on buttons £2.0 billion worth of residential contracts were Commercial contract awards totalled £841 million in 2017, Contract awards for infrastructure projects in the East of below and they will take you directly awarded in the East of England in 2017, 1.8% higher 31.6% higher than in 2016. Hotspots for commercial activity England totalled £1.1 billion in 2017, which was 63.9% lower to your chosen section. than the value awarded in 2016. Suffolk registered were Essex Haven Gateway, Essex Thames Gateway, than the value awarded in 2016. Essex Haven Gateway was Home as a hotspot and Peterborough was a coldspot. Southend-on-Sea, Suffolk and Thurrock. Breckland and the sole hotspot, reflecting the award of the £679 million The highest value project in the region South Norfolk was a coldspot. Six of the contract for the Rivenhall integrated waste Overview was the £50 million second phase of top ten largest contract awards were management facility in Braintree. The Key regional hotspots the Meadows student for retail, including two for A13 widening around NORWICH NORWICH NORWICH Key regional coldspots accommodation at the PETERBOROUGH the redevelopment of PETERBOROUGH Stanford-le-Hope PETERBOROUGH University of Essex and Intu Lakeside, totalling (£66 million) and ELY ELY ELY REGION FOCUS… two £45 million projects: £230 million. Office £48.9 million in highway East of England South Oxhey Central buildings at the and infrastructure CAMBRIDGE CAMBRIDGE CAMBRIDGE in Watford and the Cambridge Science works to support the East Midlands Carrow Quarter in Park accounted for development of the London Norwich. two of the top ten former RAF barracks North East

ST ALBANS projects. ST ALBANS at Northstowe. ST ALBANS COLCHESTER COLCHESTER COLCHESTER North West Scotland South East South West TOP TOP TOP Residential Contracts Commercial Contracts Infrastructure Contracts Wales 10 The top 10 residential contracts by value of project. 10 The top 10 commercial contracts by value of project. 10 The top 10 infrastructure contracts by value of project. West Midlands Project Units Value Start Finish Project Type Value Start Finish Project Value Start Finish Yorkshire & Humber University of Essex – Meadows phase 2 - £50m Jun 17 Oct 18 Intu Lakeside redevelopment Retail £180m Sep 17 May 19 Rivenhall integrated waste management facility £679m Aug 17 Aug 21 South Oxhey Central 374 £45m Jul 18 Jul 21 Cambridge Science Park – offices Offices £67.2m Apr 18 - A13 widening, Stanford le Hope £66m Oct 17 Oct 19 CASE STUDY… Carrow Quarter, Norwich - £45m Apr 18 Dec 21 Stane Park, Colchester Retail £65m Jul 18 Jul 21 Northstowe highway and infrastructure works £48.9m Oct 17 Oct 19 HS2 Hubs Tye Green redevelopment, Braintree - £30m - - Intu Lakeside block A Retail £50m Sep 17 Mar 19 Norwich, Yarmouth and Lowestoft resignalling £29m Aug 17 Apr 19 Oak Road, Braintree 292 £29.2m - - John Adams Toys, Huntingdon Retail £19m Mar 17 - Port of Felixstowe, berth 9 expansion £25m Jan 18 Aug 19 Stewartby Park phase 2, Bedford 285 £28.5m Feb 18 - ARM HQ fit-out, Cambridge Offices £19m - - Stewartby Park, phase 2 infrastructure works £15m - - Methodology Greenfields Road, Breckland 285 £28m Apr 17 Apr 20 Queensgate shopping centre extension Retail £18.7m Dec 17 Mar 18 Cambridge Mosque, phase 2 £15m Aug 17 Oct 18 About the CPA Hampton Water, Peterborough 269 £27m - - St John's College, Maurice Wilkes Building Offices £17m Feb 17 Aug 18 Norwich Crown Point depot improvements £15m Nov 17 Jan 19 Holt Road, Broadland 259 £25.3m - - Cambridge Science Park, plots 22 and 25 Offices £16.9m - - Warner Bros Studios parking deck £11.2m Mar 17 Mar 18 St Stephens Tower student accommodation - £25m Aug 17 Aug 19 Primark, Haymarket, Norwich Retail £15m Jan 18 Jul 18 Great Dunmow stage 2 infrastructure £10m May 17 May 19 BROUGHT TO YOU BY

Source: Barbour ABI, CPA Source: Barbour ABI, CPA Source: Barbour ABI, CPA UK Construction FOCUS ON… Hotspots East Midlands REPORT 2018 To navigate just click on buttons below and they will take you directly The East Midlands region accounts for 5.8% of total UK GVA. Key GVA per GVA growth Construction Unemployment Construction Construction Contracts Awards sectors of regional economic activity are industrial production head 2011-2016 % of GVA rate GVA (2016) Growth (2016) Growth (2017) to your chosen section. and manufacturing, business services, public administration and UK Average 26,584 19.8% 6.2% 4.4 108,124 6.0% 4.3% Home distribution and transport. Construction gross value added grew East Midlands 21,502 19.1% 7.1% 4.4 7,221 6.5% 75.0% Overview 6.5% in 2016, faster than the UK overall growth rate. Construction Derby 27,786 18.7% 4.4% 4.3 315 11.3% 180.8% Key regional hotspots accounted for 7.1% of regional GVA. The value of contracts East Derbyshire 18,820 20.3% 7.0% 4.9 372 6.3% 176.5% awarded in the region totalled £6.2 billion in 2017, an increase of Key regional coldspots South and West Derbyshire 19,727 18.7% 7.6% 1.7 752 12.2% 53.0% 75.0% from the previous year. In terms of overall contract awards, Nottingham 27,852 15.1% 4.1% 7.9 374 5.6% 85.9% there were hotspots in East Derbyshire, Leicestershire CC and REGION FOCUS… North Nottinghamshire 18,926 15.9% 9.0% 4.1 794 7.7% 20.2% Rutland and West Northamptonshire. Contract values were lower East of England South Nottinghamshire 17,557 23.3% 7.9% 3.7 475 -3.8% -7.7% than the long-term average in North Northamptonshire. Leicester 21,984 23.2% 4.2% 6.0 321 -1.8% 8.3% East Midlands

Leicestershire CC and Rutland 22,920 21.2% 8.0% 3.9 1,328 1.1% 54.3% London

West Northamptonshire 25,936 21.2% 8.2% 6.4 847 10.9% 197.9% North East Most of the regions had increased growth in 2017, North Northamptonshire 20,403 17.8% 7.7% 4.0 526 1.9% -13.3% with West Northamptonshire recording the North West Lincolnshire 18,754 16.6% 8.0% 4.4 1,116 14.3% 41.6% highest increase of 197.9% 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 2018 Residential Commercial Infrastructure To navigate just click on buttons £1.3 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 £314 million in 2017, in the East Midlands LINCOLN LINCOLN LINCOLN Home East Midlands region in 21.9% higher than in region totalled 2017, 13.6% lower than 2016. Nottingham was a £2.7 billion in 2017, which Overview the value awarded in 2016. DERBY NOTTINGHAM hotspot for commercial DERBY NOTTINGHAM was five times higher DERBY NOTTINGHAM Key regional hotspots There were no hotspots activity, whilst South than the value awarded Key regional coldspots during 2017, but Leicester Nottinghamshire was a in 2016. Contracts awarded and West Northamptonshire LEICESTER coldspot. Among the largest LEICESTER in 2017 include the Northern LEICESTER REGION FOCUS… were coldspots. Key projects in contract awards in the region Portal of the Chiltern Tunnel for East of England the region include £45 million for were phase 1 of the Intu Broadmarsh HS2 (£1.3 billion), which made West the first phase of the Canwick Avenue/ shopping centre (£92 million), Northamptonshire a hotspot. The East Midlands Bracebridge Heath development, with work through to early 2020 £558 million East Midlands Gateway rail London building 450 houses in North Kesteven and Four Waterside, an offices freight interchange in Charnwood also North East and the £39.5 million Foxlow Farm development in Northampton, with a produced a hotspot in Leicestershire development in Buxton. contract value of £30 million. CC and Rutland. A £450 million expansion to the Spalding North West gas-fired plant completed the top three projects. Scotland South East South West TOP TOP TOP Residential Contracts Commercial Contracts Infrastructure Contracts Wales 10 The top 10 residential contracts by value of project. 10 The top 10 commercial contracts by value of project. 10 The top 10 infrastructure contracts by value of project. West Midlands Project Units Value Start Finish Project Type Value Start Finish Project Value Start Finish Yorkshire & Humber Canwick Avenue/Bracebridge Heath 450 £45m - - Intu Broadmarsh, Nottingham Retail £92m Feb 18 Feb 20 North Portal of the Chiltern Tunnel (HS2) £1.3b Dec 18 Dec 23 Foxlow Farm, High Peak 395 £39.5m Apr 18 - Four Waterside, Northampton Offices £30m Jan 17 Jan 19 East Midlands Gateway – rail freight interchange £558m Feb 17 Feb 21 CASE STUDY… Loughborough University student accomm - £35m Aug 17 Sep 19 Brackley redevelopment Offices £18.4m Apr 17 - Spalding energy expansion – 300mw gas turbine £450m Sep 17 - HS2 Hubs Papplewick Lane, Gedling 300 £30m Sep 17 - Mattioli Woods head office, Leicester Offices £14m - - M1 J24 to J25 smart motorway £80m Mar 17 Dec 18 Hackwood Farm, south Derbyshire 290 £29m Oct 17 - Clifton Triangle retail park Retail £6m Aug 17 Aug 18 Rookery South Pit energy from waste facility £60m Oct 17 Apr 20 Mansfield-Ashfield Regeneration 280 £28m - - Lidl store and Wickes warehouse, Wigston Retail £6m Oct 17 Oct 18 Triton Knoll substation £30m Jan 18 Jan 21 Methodology Foxton Place, Harborough 215 £27m Aug 17 Aug 20 Pond End, Castle Donington Offices £5.8m - - A1 Spittlegate separated junction £23m Jan 18 Jun 19 About the CPA Ladybank Road, south Derbyshire 252 £25.2m - - House of Fraser, Leicester Retail £5m Jul 17 Jul 18 Lindhurst redevelopment – phase 1 infrastructure £20m Jan 17 Jan 18 Mansfield Road, Derby 250 £25m Jul 17 - Alltech UK, extension and refurbishment Offices £4.6m Jan 17 Jan 18 Market Harborough station improvements £20m Aug 17 Feb 19 Chellaston phase 2, south Derbyshire 240 £24m Jul 17 - Sports Direct, Brook Park, Bolsover Retail £4.5m Jun 17 Jun 18 Mountsorrel quarry extension £20m Dec 15 Dec 20 BROUGHT TO YOU BY

Source: Barbour ABI, CPA Source: Barbour ABI, CPA Source: Barbour ABI, CPA UK Construction FOCUS ON… Hotspots London REPORT 2018 To navigate just click on buttons below and they will take you directly London is the largest regional economy, accounting for 22.7% GVA per GVA growth Construction Unemployment Construction Construction Contracts Awards of total UK GVA and the highest GVA per head. Construction head 2011-2016 % of GVA rate GVA (2016) Growth (2016) Growth (2017) to your chosen section. represents only 4.9% of regional GVA and construction GVA UK Average 26,584 19.8% 6.2% 4.4 108,124 6.0% 4.3% Home increased 11.8% in 2016, the fastest regional growth rate of London 45,046 25.7% 4.9% 5.3 19,470 11.8% 7.3% Overview the year. Key sectors of economic activity are focused in real Camden and City of London 309,427 32.1% 1.8% 5.9 1,425 14.7% -40.4% Key regional hotspots estate activities, financial and insurance services, professional, Westminster 227,468 30.1% 2.8% 6.0 1,605 9.2% 67.8% scientific and technical activities and business services. The Key regional coldspots Kensington & Chelsea and Hammersmith & Fulham 66,292 16.5% 2.6% 5.5 588 12.6% -70.3% value of contracts awarded in the region totalled £14.1 billion in Wandsworth 34,086 20.7% 4.1% 2.2 445 13.8% 359.0% 2017, 7.3% higher than the previous year. In 2017, overall hotspots REGION FOCUS… Hackney and Newham 24,152 21.6% 8.3% 4.5 1,234 4.0% -27.7% were in Haringey and Islington and Hounslow and Richmond East of England Tower Hamlets 90,386 19.0% 2.4% 9.7 652 14.2% -8.4% upon Thames. There were four coldspots: Lambeth, Hackney East Midlands and Newham, Redbridge and Waltham Forest, and Kensington Haringey and Islington 46,295 20.6% 4.4% 5.6 1,031 5.0% 178.5% & Chelsea and Hammersmith & Fulham. Lewisham and Southwark 32,695 17.3% 5.1% 5.3 1,035 12.0% -61.8% London Lambeth 32,707 22.1% 4.3% 5.0 459 3.1% -38.4% North East Bexley and Greenwich 17,841 18.9% 11.0% 5.4 1,032 9.2% -18.4% North West Wandsworth dominated the region, with the Barking & Dagenham and Havering 20,979 24.4% 11.7% 6.4 1,131 10.8% -13.7% Scotland largest growth in contracts awarded in 2017, Redbridge and Waltham Forest 17,010 22.4% 11.7% 5.5 1,140 13.5% -46.6% South East increasing by 359% Enfield 20,052 19.4% 9.8% 6.5 654 8.8% -58.4% South West Bromley 22,604 19.7% 7.2% 4.6 531 13.0% -26.1%

Croydon 19,475 11.9% 7.7% 7.8 571 13.7% 39.0% Wales

Merton, Kingston upon Thames and Sutton 24,987 18.8% 7.0% 3.7 1,022 15.6% 13.9% West Midlands Barnet 25,787 27.7% 8.3% 2.9 823 15.3% 14.8% Yorkshire & Humber Brent 26,217 35.5% 11.0% 7.2 950 15.9% 42.8%

Ealing 27,417 26.7% 8.5% 4.5 803 15.0% 54.7% CASE STUDY…

Harrow and Hillingdon 33,528 31.1% 8.3% 4.4 1,534 16.7% -13.9% HS2 Hubs

Hounslow and Richmond upon Thames 41,089 50.9% 4.2% 6.2 805 13.5% 147.5% Methodology Source: Barbour ABI, CPA , ONS About the CPA

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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 2018 Residential Commercial Infrastructure To navigate just click on buttons £3.6 billion worth of residential contracts were awarded in Commercial contract awards totalled £2.1 billion in 2017, Contract awards for infrastructure projects in London below and they will take you directly London in 2017, 33.9% lower than the value awarded in 2016 38.5% lower than the 2016 value. The only hotspot for totalled £3.3 billion in 2017, double the value recorded in 2016. to your chosen section. and the lowest value in over six years. Nevertheless, there commercial activity was Croydon. The £200 million 1 Park Contract awards for HS2 were the key driver of contracts Home were two hotspots: Haringey and Islington and Hounslow and Place off ices tower project in Canary Wharf was the largest growth and hotspots in Haringey and Islington (covering Richmond upon Thames. Key projects in these sub-regions commercial contract for the year, followed by the £188 million Euston station) and Hounslow and Richmond upon Thames Overview were phase one of the housing at the new Brentford FC Ten Bank Street. The third largest project was a £130 million (covering the Chiltern Tunnels). The £500 million Riverside Key regional hotspots stadium (£100 million) and the contract for the fi t-out of the new Energy Park in Belvedere produced Key regional coldspots £76.5 million Lampton Road Goldman Sachs HQ. a hotspot in Bexley and redevelopment Greenwich. REGION FOCUS… of the former UPMINSTER UPMINSTER UPMINSTER East of England Hounslow civic UXBRIDGE UXBRIDGE UXBRIDGE centre. WESTMINSTER WESTMINSTER WESTMINSTER East Midlands London

KINGSTON KINGSTON KINGSTON North East UPON THAMES BROMLEY UPON THAMES BROMLEY UPON THAMES BROMLEY CROYDON CROYDON CROYDON North West Scotland South East South West TOP TOP TOP Residential Contracts Commercial Contracts Infrastructure Contracts Wales 10 The top 10 residential contracts by value of project. 10 The top 10 commercial contracts by value of project. 10 The top 10 infrastructure contracts by value of project. West Midlands Project Units Value Start Finish Project Type Value Start Finish Project Value Start Finish Yorkshire & Humber North Quay, Poplar 1,243 £800m - - 1 Park Place, Canary Wharf O ff i c e s £200m Jul 17 - Chiltern Tunnels (HS2) £1.3b Dec 18 Dec 23 Old War Off ice Building, Whitehall - £300m Oct 17 Oct 20 Ten Bank Street, Canary Wharf O ff i c e s £188m - - Euston Tunnels and Approaches (HS2) £900m Dec 18 Dec 23 CASE STUDY… Wembley Park, Plot E05 - £155m Jan 18 Jan 21 Goldman Sachs fi t-out, Clerkenwell O ff i c e s £130m Oct 17 - Riverside Energy Park, Belvedere £500m Jan 21 Jan 24 HS2 Hubs 225 Marsh Wall redevelopment - £150m Jul 17 Jul 21 100 Liverpool Street refurbishment O ff i c e s £120m - - Jubilee Line escalators £76.3m Nov 17 Apr 25 Lionel Road, Kew Bridge phase 1 648 £100m Feb 18 Feb 21 60 London Wall O ff i c e s £100m Jul 17 Jul 19 Hampstead Road bridge replacement £50m - - Stephenson Street phase 1 1,020 £85m Feb 18 Feb 23 One Crown Place, Hackney O ff i c e s £80m Mar 17 Jul 20 Hobhouse Court art gallery £31m Aug 17 Aug 19 Methodology Wardian London, Canary Wharf 683 £80m Aug 16 Aug 20 207 Old Street – The Tower O ff i c e s £73m Oct 17 Jun 18 Big Ben refurbishment £29m Jan 17 Jan 21 About the CPA Lampton Road, Hounslow 762 £76.5m Aug 17 - Westminster City Hall refurbishment O ff i c e s £50m Aug 17 Aug 19 Royal College of Music, courtyard development £25m Apr 17 May 19 Wandle Terrace, Haslemere Estate - £70m Dec 17 Dec 19 114-150 Hackney Road O ff i c e s £30m Jan 18 Jan 20 Willesden Junction station – platform extension £22m - - High Lane estate renegeration, Ealing - £65m Jan 19 Jan 25 IKEA Greenwich Retail £30m Oct 17 Apr 19 Meridian Water site remediation £15m Mar 17 Mar 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 2018 To navigate just click on buttons below and they will take you directly The North East region accounts for 3.0% of UK GVA and had the GVA per GVA growth Construction Unemployment Construction Construction Contracts Awards highest regional unemployment rate in 2017 (6.2%). Key sectors head 2011-2016 % of GVA rate GVA (2016) Growth (2016) Growth (2017) to your chosen section. of regional economic activity are industrial production and UK Average 26,584 19.8% 6.2% 4.4 108,124 6.0% 4.3% Home manufacturing, distribution and transport, and public sector North East 19,542 14.8% 5.9% 6.2 3,019 -1.8% -19.5% Overview administration. Construction accounted for 5.9% of regional Hartlepool and Stockton-on-Tees 19,452 12.9% 7.7% 6.8 434 0.7% -63.9% Key regional hotspots gross value added in 2016, and construction GVA fell 1.8%, the South Teesside 17,065 6.4% 5.7% 7.0 266 6.4% -32.9% only region to record a decrease in construction in the year. Key regional coldspots Darlington 24,082 9.2% 3.9% 6.1 98 -4.9% -81.8%

The value of contracts awarded totalled £2.3 billion in 2017, a Durham CC 16,513 18.2% 6.7% 6.3 574 2.9% 12.9% REGION FOCUS… decrease of 19.5% from the previous year. In terms of overall Northumberland 16,604 16.5% 6.0% 4.5 314 -4.8% -7.5% East of England contract awards, hotspots were Tyneside and Durham, whilst Tyneside 22,277 14.3% 5.4% 6.4 1,024 -5.4% 56.2% Sunderland was a coldspot. Sunderland 21,021 21.6% 5.3% 6.3 309 -3.7% -43.9% East Midlands London Source: Barbour ABI, CPA , ONS Despite having the largest growth in contracts North East awarded in 2016, in 2017 Hartlepool and North West Stockton-in-Tees had one of the lowest growths, Scotland decreasing by 63.9% 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 2018 Residential Commercial Infrastructure To navigate just click on buttons £1.1 billion worth of residential Commercial contract awards Contract awards for infrastructure below and they will take you directly contracts were awarded in the totalled £93 million in 2017, a projects in the North East totalled to your chosen section. North East in 2017, an increase decrease of 49.4% compared to £533 million in 2017, a decrease of Home of 17.7% from 2016. This 2016. South Teesside was a 60.9% from 2016. Tyneside represents a rebound from hotspot in 2017, reflecting the was the sole infrastructure Overview a weak year for contract award of contracts for the hotspot, due to the Key regional hotspots awards in 2016 and a return £10 million Cleveland Gate £300 million Blyth Offshore NEWCASTLE NEWCASTLE NEWCASTLE Key regional coldspots to contract values in line retail park. Wind Demonstrator project. with the long-term average. SUNDERLAND SUNDERLAND There was no region where SUNDERLAND The value of commercial REGION FOCUS… Therefore, there were no contract awards were DURHAM contract awards in the DURHAM DURHAM East of England hotspots or coldspots in 2017. The significantly below the long-term sub-regions of Durham, largest contracts were for Mount average. The second-largest project East Midlands Hartlepool and Stockton-on-Tees, Leven Retirement village in Stockton- awarded was in the energy sub-sector: Sunderland and Tyneside was below London on-Tees (£50 million) and 27 Rutherford the High Middlefield gas-fired energy long-term averages. North East Street in Newcastle-upon-Tyne (£40.5 billion). reserve facility in Stockton-on-Tees (£50 million). North West Scotland South East South West TOP TOP TOP Residential Contracts Commercial Contracts Infrastructure Contracts Wales 10 The top 10 residential contracts by value of project. 10 The top 10 commercial contracts by value of project. 10 The top 10 infrastructure contracts by value of project. West Midlands Project Units Value Start Finish Project Type Value Start Finish Project Value Start Finish Yorkshire & Humber Mount Leven Retirement Village - £50m Apr 17 Apr 22 Cleveland Gate retail park Retail £10m Jan 17 Jan 18 Blyth Offshore windfarm demonstrator £300m Jan 17 Oct 17 27 Rutherford Street, Newcastle-upon-Tyne 162 £40.5m Nov 17 Nov 19 PII Pipeline Solutions HQ, Northumberland Offices £7m Aug 17 Oct 18 High Middlefield Farm gas-fired energy reserve facility £50m Mar 17 - CASE STUDY… East Benton Farm phase 2, North Tyneside 360 £36m Dec 17 Dec 22 Tombola Campus, Sunderland Offices £6m Mar 17 Sep 18 South Shields 365 transport interchange £20m Apr 18 Oct 19 HS2 Hubs Langley Park, Durham 353 £35.3m Jan 18 Jan 28 Pheasant Fields Lane, Skelton Retail £5.7m - - Hemlington Grange, Cleveland Police HQ £12m - - Whickham Highway, Gateshead 352 £35.2m Sep 17 Sep 23 Northumberland Park, phase 1 Retail £4m Jan 18 Jul 18 Hemlington Community Safety Hub £12m Feb 17 Jun 18 18-29 Claypath student accommodation - £30m Jul 17 Jan 19 Western Approach Trade Park Retail £3.5m - - Auckland Castle redevelopment £12m Jun 17 Nov 18 Methodology Wynyard Village extension, Stockton-on-Tees 280 £28m Apr 18 Apr 20 Highways England offices, Northumberland Offices £3.5m May 17 Dec 17 Whittle Dean water treatment works £11.1m - - About the CPA Lambton Lane, Bournmoor 271 £27.1m - - Thinford Roundabout, starter Retail £3.3m - - Greatham Creek flood defence project £11m Jul 17 Dec 18 North Seaton, Ashington 240 £24m - - M&S Food Hall, Darlington Retail £3m - - Greatham South flood alleviation scheme £11m Apr 17 Apr 20 Arcot phase 1A, Northumberland 238 £23.8m Jul 17 Jul 23 Aldi store, Thornaby Retail £2.5m - - University Hospital of North Tees energy centre £8m Apr 17 Apr 18 BROUGHT TO YOU BY

Source: Barbour ABI, CPA Source: Barbour ABI, CPA Source: Barbour ABI, CPA UK Construction FOCUS ON… Hotspots North West REPORT 2018 To navigate just click on buttons below and they will take you directly The North West region accounts for 9.5% of UK GVA and includes GVA per GVA growth Construction Unemployment Construction Construction Contracts Awards two major cities: Manchester and Liverpool. Key sectors of head 2011-2016 % of GVA rate GVA (2016) Growth (2016) Growth (2017) to your chosen section. regional economic activity are industrial production and UK Average 26,584 19.8% 6.2% 4.4 108,124 6.0% 4.3% Home manufacturing, distribution and transport, and public sector North West 22,899 18.7% 5.7% 4.4 9,383 1.0% 5.4% Overview administration. Construction accounted for 5.7% of regional West Cumbria 23,981 23.3% 6.7% 4.1 378 3.3% -61.0% Key regional hotspots GVA in 2016 and construction GVA grew 1.0%, slower than the East Cumbria 24,821 23.3% 5.7% 2.5 373 -7.2% -48.4% UK overall in that year. The value of contracts awarded totalled Key regional coldspots Manchester 33,063 28.1% 2.7% 6.2 488 10.9% 17.1% £8.0 billion in 2017, an increase of 5.4% from the previous year. Greater Manchester South West 29,338 19.7% 5.7% 4.3 815 10.7% 101.0% In terms of overall contract awards, hotspots were Blackpool, REGION FOCUS… Greater Manchester South East 18,936 3.3% 5.4% 4.5 521 -9.2% 35.3% Greater Manchester South West, Sefton and Warrington. East East of England Greater Manchester North West 16,311 18.2% 8.5% 4.0 839 1.6% 20.9% Merseyside and Greater Manchester North West were coldspots. Greater Manchester North East 17,483 21.2% 6.7% 5.4 746 3.0% -0.1% East Midlands

Blackburn with Darwen 20,340 24.1% 4.0% 6.1 121 2.5% 0.1% London Cheshire West and Chester had the largest Blackpool 17,022 11.0% 4.2% 6.7 100 -9.1% 84.4% North East growth in contracts awarded in 2017, Lancaster and Wyre 16,512 13.4% 6.7% 3.3 280 -3.1% 10.2% North West Mid Lancashire 29,588 29.2% 8.5% 3.3 977 -4.3% -23.5% increasing by 144.8% Scotland East Lancashire 18,628 17.8% 5.4% 4.3 329 -7.3% 0.7% South East Chorley and West Lancashire 18,984 15.1% 6.2% 4.0 268 -2.9% -17.4% South West Warrington 31,437 17.8% 6.6% 3.3 434 -2.9% 58.2%

Cheshire East 33,279 30.1% 5.0% 1.2 631 7.9% 3.4% Wales

Cheshire West and Chester 27,900 16.9% 4.2% 5.8 396 4.5% 144.8% West Midlands East Merseyside 22,304 16.0% 6.2% 4.1 627 1.0% -7.8% Yorkshire & Humber Liverpool 23,029 9.7% 4.6% 5.8 508 5.4% -2.7%

Sefton 15,512 5.6% 6.1% 4.9 260 6.1% 46.7% CASE STUDY…

Wirral 15,051 9.7% 6.0% 4.7 290 0.3% 30.7% HS2 Hubs

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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 2018 Residential Commercial Infrastructure To navigate just click on buttons £3.8 billion worth of residential Commercial contract awards totalled Contract awards for infrastructure below and they will take you directly CARLISLE CARLISLE CARLISLE contracts were awarded in the £684 million in 2017, 5.1% higher than projects in the North West totalled to your chosen section. North West in 2017, an increase of in 2016. There were fi ve key hotspots: £1.7 billion in 2017. This is 26.9% Home 39.7% from 2016. Hotspots were in Blackpool, Greater Manchester lower than in 2016. Activity hotspots Blackburn with Darwen, Blackpool North East, Lancaster and Wyre, in 2017 were driven by a broad range Overview and Manchester. Half of the region’s Liverpool and Warrington. This refl ects of rail, energy, utilities and airport Key regional hotspots top ten largest projects were in the awards of contracts for Rochdale projects, including £350 million for the Key regional coldspots Manchester city centre, including two LANCASTER Riverside (£70 million) and two projects at LANCASTER Traff ord Park tram line, £300 million for LANCASTER phases at Circle Square, the former BBC the Warrington Bridge Street redevelopment: the Thirlmere to West Cumbria water mains REGION FOCUS… site, at £235 million and £135 million. Four PRESTON a £69 million retail-led scheme and £19 million PRESTON link and £300 million for the 60mw Lostock PRESTON East of England projects totalling £273 million were awarded council off ices. In contrast, the value of energy from waste facility in Northwich. There in Salford. The majority of projects are set to commercial contract awards in Wirral was were three hotspots (Greater Manchester East Midlands SALFORD SALFORD SALFORD complete in 2019. LIVERPOOL below its long-term average. LIVERPOOL South East, Greater Manchester South West LIVERPOOL MANCHESTER MANCHESTER MANCHESTER London and Seft on) and one coldspot (Lancaster North East CHESTER CHESTER and Wyre). CHESTER North West Scotland South East South West TOP TOP TOP Residential Contracts Commercial Contracts Infrastructure Contracts Wales 10 The top 10 residential contracts by value of project. 10 The top 10 commercial contracts by value of project. 10 The top 10 infrastructure contracts by value of project. West Midlands Project Units Value Start Finish Project Type Value Start Finish Project Value Start Finish Yorkshire & Humber Sir Henry Royce Institute, Circle Square 266 £235m Oct 17 Oct 19 Rochdale Riverside Retail £70m Nov 17 Aug 19 Metrolink, Traff ord Park £350m Nov 17 Nov 21 Portugal Street East Phase 1, Manchester 340 £150m Jan 18 Jan 21 Warrington Bridge Street redevelopment Retail £69m Oct 17 Oct 18 Thirlmere to West Cumbria water mains link £300m - - CASE STUDY… Circle Square, Blocks 5 & 6, Manchester 411 £135m Sep 17 Sep 19 Mercedes Benz dealership, Stockport Retail £60m Jan 18 - Lostock energy from waste facility £300m Oct 18 Oct 21 HS2 Hubs Chapel Wharf, Salford 995 £100m Jan 17 Jul 19 Dickenson House, Manchester O ff i c e s £50m Apr 17 Oct 18 Ince Resource Recovery Park £130m - - Princess Street/Whitworth Street - £80m Aug 17 Aug 19 Paddington Square, Liverpool O ff i c e s £40m Sep 17 Sep 20 Manchester Airport T2 Transformation – taxiways £38m Oct 17 Jan 19 Jacksons Row, Manchester - £77.1m - - Bridge Street Quarter, council HQ O ff i c e s £19m - - Weaver to Wavertress re-signalling £35m Jan 17 May 19 Methodology Trinity, Salford 380 £60m Jul 17 - Edge Lane retail park, Liverpool Retail £16.5m - - Halton Curve – Chester to Liverpool rail line £25m Jun 17 Sep 18 About the CPA Gore Street, Salford 221 £60m Jan 18 Apr 19 Westbrook and Delta Crescent, Warrington Retail £13.5m - - Merseyside Police – patrol facility £21.7m - - Furness Quay, Salford 707 £53m Jul 17 Jul 20 Electra House, Cheshire O ff i c e s £12.3m Aug 17 Aug 18 Jodrell bank Observatory – SKA HQ Building £20.4m Dec 16 Dec 17 Carleton Heights, Eden, Cumbria 505 £50m Feb 17 Feb 24 New Mersey retail park Retail £12m Jan 17 Jul 18 Cheshire East BC – organic waste treatment centre £20m - - BROUGHT TO YOU BY

Source: Barbour ABI, CPA Source: Barbour ABI, CPA Source: Barbour ABI, CPA UK Construction FOCUS ON… Hotspots Scotland REPORT 2018 To navigate just click on buttons below and they will take you directly Scotland accounts for 7.7% 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 2011-2016 % of GVA rate GVA (2015) Growth (2016) Growth (2017) to your chosen section. and manufacturing, distribution and transport and public UK Average 26,584 19.8% 6.2% 4.4 108,124 6.0% 4.3% Home administration. Construction accounted for 6.3% of regional Scotland 24,876 17.7% 6.3% 4.1 8,448 4.8% -41.7% Overview gross value added in 2016 and increased 4.8% in that year, below Angus and Dundee City 21,388 16.0% 5.1% 4.5 286 -0.3% 42.8% Key regional hotspots the overall UK rate of growth. The value of contracts awarded Clackmannanshire and Fife 19,638 23.3% 7.0% 3.8 581 6.8% 244.1% in the region totalled £4.9 billion in 2017, a decrease of 41.7% Key regional coldspots East Lothian and Midlothian 16,722 25.1% 9.7% 3.3 311 -3.7% -25.4% from the previous year. In terms of overall contract awards, Scottish Borders 18,099 12.3% 6.9% 4.2 143 -1.4% -64.8% hotspots were in North Lanarkshire and the Orkney Islands. REGION FOCUS… Edinburgh, City of 38,396 17.8% 2.9% 2.6 569 8.0% -20.2% Coldspots were the Western Isles and East Ayrshire and North East of England Falkirk 20,136 19.2% 8.9% 5 284 9.2% -44.0% Ayrshire mainland. Perth & Kinross and Stirling 24,920 24.9% 6.1% 3.3 369 -2.1% -53.9% East Midlands

West Lothian 20,927 4.7% 8.6% 3.3 325 -12.4% -11.5% London

E Dunbartonshire, W Dunbartonshire and Helensburgh The Orkney Islands dominated growth in 16,749 13.4% 5.7% 4.1 212 8.7% -45.9% North East & Lomond contracts awarded in 2017, increasing by 1472.3% North West Dumfries & Galloway 19,826 19.7% 5.6% 2.1 167 4.4% -41.9%

E Ayrshire and N Ayrshire mainland 15,627 13.8% 7.8% 7.6 307 3.7% -64.8% Scotland

Glasgow City 33,660 19.8% 5.2% 5.6 1,077 2.1% -17.9% South East Inverclyde, E Renfrewshire and Renfrewshire 20,175 21.4% 6.8% 4.2 479 12.7% -55.6% South West North Lanarkshire 19,605 20.5% 10.0% 4.9 665 4.9% 113.4% Wales South Ayrshire 23,948 22.4% 5.3% 4.4 144 19.0% 11.9% West Midlands South Lanarkshire 19,991 19.2% 10.2% 3.7 649 13.9% 93.0% Yorkshire & Humber Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire 35,786 11.4% 5.7% 3.5 1,008 7.3% -69.8%

Caithness & Sutherland and Ross & Cromarty 20,426 21.7% 10.4% 3.7 200 6.4% na CASE STUDY… Inverness & Nairn and Moray, Badenoch & Strathspey 24,950 16.6% 6.7% 4.9 343 4.9% -83.2% HS2 Hubs Lochaber, Skye & Lochalsh, Arran & Cumbrae and 23,335 19.0% 6.6% 1.9 154 4.8% -58.5% Argyll & Bute

Eilean Siar (Western Isles) 17,664 8.4% 7.4% 2.9 35 -2.8% -54.6% Methodology

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Shetland Islands 29,317 19.5% 12.9% na 88 -3.3% -25.7%

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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 2018 Residential Commercial Infrastructure To navigate just click on buttons £2.0 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 2017, 29.9% higher than £244 million in 2017, 41.9% below the value totalled £1.0 billion in 2017, which was 73.4% below to your chosen section. the value awarded in 2016. East Lothian and recorded in 2016. Hotspots for commercial the value awarded in 2016. Hotspots were recorded in Home Midlothian, Inverness & Nairn and Moray, activity were in Inverness & Nairn and the Western Isles, North Lanarkshire and Badenoch & Strathspey, Moray, Badenoch & Strathspey Perth and Kinross and Stirling Overview Orkney Islands, South and the Shetland Islands. and coldspots in South Key regional hotspots Ayrshire and the Scottish The two largest contracts Lanarkshire, the Scottish Key regional coldspots Borders were hotspots, were for offices space in Borders and East Ayrshire INVERNESS INVERNESS INVERNESS whilst Lochaber, Skye Glasgow: £50 million for and North Ayrshire ABERDEEN ABERDEEN ABERDEEN REGION FOCUS… & Lochalsh, Arran & Bothwell Exchange and mainland. The largest East of England Cumbrae and Argyll £13.5 million for the contract award was DUNDEE DUNDEE DUNDEE PERTH PERTH PERTH East Midlands & Bute was a coldspot. STIRLING fit-out of 1 Atlantic Quay. STIRLING the £130 million Kype Muir STIRLING

Three of the top five largest EDINBURGH Coldspots were registered in EDINBURGH wind farm and the £120 million EDINBURGH London GLASGOW GLASGOW GLASGOW contract awards were in South Ayrshire, Orkney Islands converter station for the North East Edinburgh. The largest contract and East Dunbartonshire, West Abb Caithness Moray subsea was for a £51 million development Dunbartonshire and Helensburgh cabling project. North West in Midlothian. & Lomond. Scotland South East South West TOP TOP TOP Residential Contracts Commercial Contracts Infrastructure Contracts Wales 10 The top 10 residential contracts by value of project. 10 The top 10 commercial contracts by value of project. 10 The top 10 infrastructure contracts by value of project. West Midlands Project Units Value Start Finish Project Type Value Start Finish Project Value Start Finish Yorkshire & Humber Newton Farm and Wellington Farm 506 £51m Jun 19 Jun 26 Bothwell Exchange, Glasgow Offices £50m May 17 Nov 18 Kype Muir Wind Farm £130m Jan 17 Dec 17 Baileyfield South, Portobello 483 £48.3m Nov 17 Nov 22 1 Atlantic Quay, Glasgow – fit-out Offices £13.5m - - Abb Moray converter station £120m Jan 17 Aug 18 CASE STUDY… Waterfront Plaza, Edinburgh 425 £45.5m Jul 17 Jul 20 Eastgate Shopping Centre, Highland Retail £13m Oct 17 Apr 19 Dalmarnock waste water treatment works £55m - - HS2 Hubs South Scotstoun, Edinburgh 339 £45m Jan 18 Jan 25 Aviemore Retail Park Retail £10m May 17 Jan 18 Shotts Electrification (Holytown to Midcalder) £49m Jan 17 Jan 20 Ness Side, Highland 446 £41.3m - - Lerwick Fish Market Retail £10m Oct 17 Oct 18 Sound of Islay Stream Project £40m Aug 17 Jan 19 Former Scottish Power HQ, Glasgow 128 £40m Mar 18 Mar 19 Brechin Road, Montrose Retail £8.2m - - A737 Dalry Bypass £38m Jul 17 Jan 19 Methodology Portstown phases 1 & 2, Aberdeen 363 £36.3m Dec 16 Dec 19 NFU Mutual office refurbishment, Glasgow Offices £8m Jan 17 Jan 18 Tealing Solar Farm £31m Sep 18 Mar 20 About the CPA Pitskelly Farm phases 1 & 2, Angus 250 £35m Aug 17 Aug 22 West George Street office refurbishment Offices £7m Feb 17 Feb 18 Knocknagael to Tomatin overhead line £30m Dec 17 Dec 19 Ellismuir Farm Road, Glasgow 374 £35m Jul 18 Jul 23 4 North St Andrew Street extension Offices £6m Jun 17 Aug 18 Wathegar 2 Wind Farm £27m Dec 17 - Summerhill, Aberdeen 369 £35m Oct 17 Oct 21 JP Morgan office refurbishment, Edinburgh Offices £5.2m Oct 17 Apr 18 Edinburgh Waverly platform modifications £23m - - BROUGHT TO YOU BY

Source: Barbour ABI, CPA Source: Barbour ABI, CPA Source: Barbour ABI, CPA UK Construction FOCUS ON… Hotspots South East REPORT 2018 To navigate just click on buttons below and they will take you directly The South East region accounts for 14.7% of total UK GVA and GVA per GVA growth Construction Unemployment Construction Construction Contracts Awards had the lowest regional unemployment rate in 2017 (3.2%). head 2011-2016 % of GVA rate GVA (2016) Growth (2016) Growth (2017) to your chosen section. Key sectors of economic activity in the region are distribution UK Average 26,584 19.8% 6.2% 4.4 108,124 6.0% 4.3% Home and transport, information and communications, real estate South East 28,506 20.6% 6.8% 3.2 17,501 8.6% -4.3% Overview activities, business services and public administration. Berkshire 40,077 16.0% 4.9% 2.9 1,759 17.1% -44.8% Key regional hotspots Construction accounted for 6.8% of regional GVA in 2016 and Milton Keynes 45,915 35.3% 2.9% 4.8 349 10.1% -42.1% rose 8.6% in that year. The value of contracts awarded in the Key regional coldspots Buckinghamshire CC 29,601 22.6% 7.0% 1.8 1,108 5.3% 49.9% region totalled £8.3 billion in 2017, a decrease of 4.3% from the Oxfordshire 33,096 25.7% 6.5% 3.8 1,461 14.1% 64.4% previous year. In terms of overall contract awards, hotspots were REGION FOCUS… Brighton and Hove 25,719 28.8% 4.7% 6.3 348 2.4% 302.8% in East Kent and Brighton and Hove, whilst coldspots were in East of England East Sussex CC 19,065 22.3% 8.6% 3.3 895 6.7% -31.3% Portsmouth, Isle of Wight and West Sussex (South West). West Surrey 35,935 26.5% 6.4% 2.3 1,804 11.4% -2.9% East Midlands

East Surrey 30,422 16.8% 9.3% 2.6 1,132 1.2% -58.5% London Brighton and Hove had the largest growth in West Sussex (South West) 21,376 11.6% 6.6% 2.6 630 7.1% -11.2% North East contracts awarded in 2017, increasing by 302.8% West Sussex (North East) 31,170 28.6% 5.8% 3.2 722 12.3% 108.1% North West Portsmouth 26,662 18.5% 6.0% 3.4 346 10.9% -40.3% Scotland Southampton 24,165 21.1% 5.4% 3.7 334 7.4% -27.4% South East Isle of Wight 19,290 19.2% 6.3% 4.9 170 12.6% -42.9% South West South Hampshire 23,815 13.5% 8.6% 3.3 928 6.9% 11.6%

Central Hampshire 28,476 15.2% 7.5% 2.1 1,162 12.6% -40.4% Wales

North Hampshire 30,100 14.0% 5.7% 2.1 632 8.6% -16.3% West Midlands Medway 18,550 28.7% 9.8% 5.5 508 4.1% -41.8% Yorkshire & Humber Kent Thames Gateway 21,894 26.5% 13.6% 3.1 1,065 -2.2% -33.2%

East Kent 17,651 7.8% 7.7% 4.2 718 9.5% 143.8% CASE STUDY…

Mid Kent 23,138 18.5% 8.7% 2.7 587 7.9% -35.2% HS2 Hubs

West Kent 27,578 22.6% 8.4% 2.4 844 7.4% -5.5% Methodology Source: Barbour ABI, CPA , ONS About the CPA

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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 2018 Residential Commercial Infrastructure To navigate just click on buttons £3.1 billion worth of residential contracts were awarded in the Commercial contract awards in the South East totalled £714 million Contract awards for infrastructure projects in the South East totalled below and they will take you directly South East region in 2017, 7.9% higher than the value awarded in 2017, 3.3% higher than in 2016. Hotspots for commercial activity £1.7 billion in 2017, a decrease of 32.6% from the value awarded in 2016. to your chosen section. in 2016. There were no hotspots and only Milton Keynes was a were Brighton and Hove, Central Hampshire, Mid Kent, Milton Keynes Hotspots of activity were in East Kent, South Hampshire and West Sussex Home coldspot. Key projects awarded contracts include a £120 million and West Sussex (South West). Berkshire and North Hampshire were (North East), refl ecting the award of contracts for the extension of the cruise development at Charter Square, Staines, £103 million for 1,000 units coldspots. A £55 million digital and data centre at the Principal Park ship terminal at the Port of Dover (£400 million), the £180 million Gatwick Overview at Sandleford Park, Newbury and business park in Crawley was the region’s Airport extension to pier 6, to be operational Key regional hotspots £75 million for the redevelopment of the largest contract award, with work expected in 2022, as well as two contracts for onshore Key regional coldspots former gas works in High Wycombe. to last until early 2020. electricity work in Fareham for the France-UK interconnector, IFA2. REGION FOCUS… OXFORD OXFORD OXFORD East of England East Midlands CANTERBURY CANTERBURY CANTERBURY London

WINCHESTER WINCHESTER WINCHESTER SOUTHAMPTON SOUTHAMPTON SOUTHAMPTON North East CHICHESTER CHICHESTER CHICHESTER 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 10 The top 10 residential contracts by value of project. 10 The top 10 commercial contracts by value of project. 10 The top 10 infrastructure contracts by value of project. West Midlands Project Units Value Start Finish Project Type Value Start Finish Project Value Start Finish Yorkshire & Humber Charter Square, Staines - £120m - - Principal Park, Crawley O ff i c e s £55m Jan 17 Jan 20 Port of Dover – Terminal 2 £400m Feb 17 Feb 21 Sandleford Park, Newbury 1,000 £103m - - McArthur Glen retail outlet extension Retail £40m Dec 17 Dec 19 Channel Tunnel Interconnector £185m - - CASE STUDY… Former Gas Works, High Wycombe - £75m May 17 May 19 Nexus parcel 1 and 3, Crawley O ff i c e s £27.5m Apr 17 Oct 18 Gatwick Airport pier 6 extension £180m Apr 18 Apr 22 HS2 Hubs North Stoneham Park, Eastleigh 564 £56.4m Jul 17 Jul 21 Kings Court development, Woking O ff i c e s £25.5m May 17 Nov 18 IFA2 – onshore converter station £100m Jan 18 Jan 20 Botley Centre redevelopment phase 1 - £52.3m Jun 17 Aug 19 Station Street, Brighton O ff i c e s £18.8m - - IFA2 – onshore cabling £50m Oct 17 Oct 19 Bloxham Road, Banbury 321 £32.1m Aug 17 - Milton Park plots 141-143 fi t-out O ff i c e s £18m Jun 17 - Folkestone converter station £40m Jan 17 Jan 19 Methodology Conningbrook Lakes, Ashford 300 £31.5m Sep 17 - Lloyds Court development, Milton Keynes O ff i c e s £18m Aug 17 Feb 19 MK Centre multi-storey car park £30m Sep 17 Sep 19 About the CPA Sun Park, Minley Road, Camberley 323 £31.4m Jul 17 Jul 22 Chilcomb Park, Winchester O ff i c e s £17.5m - - Didcot Parkway – IECC Scalable extension £27m Mar 17 Mar 20 Land north east of Hook 300 £30m Oct 17 - Oxford Science Park, plot 12 O ff i c e s £15m Feb 17 Feb 19 Didcot Parkway – 6-storey car park £25m Aug 17 Jul 18 Leigh Court, Wycombe 230 £30m Jan 18 Jul 21 St Michael's Retail Park, Basingstoke Retail £15m Jan 18 Nov 18 Canterbury Cathedral refurbishment £19.4m Dec 17 Dec 21 BROUGHT TO YOU BY

Source: Barbour ABI, CPA Source: Barbour ABI, CPA Source: Barbour ABI, CPA UK Construction FOCUS ON… Hotspots South West REPORT 2018 To navigate just click on buttons below and they will take you directly The South West region accounts for 7.4% 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 2011-2016 % of GVA rate GVA (2016) Growth (2016) Growth (2017) to your chosen section. and transport, public administration and business services. UK Average 26,584 19.8% 6.2% 4.4 108,124 6.0% 4.3% Home Construction accounted for 7.2% of regional gross value added South West 23,548 20.1% 7.2% 3.3 9,309 8.7% 15.5% Overview in 2016 and registered an increase of 8.7% in that year. The Bristol, City of 31,014 22.8% 5.3% 4.2 741 13.0% 1.3% Key regional hotspots value of contracts awarded in the region totalled £4.9 billion Bath and NE Somerset, N Somerset and S Gloucestershire 27,683 19.8% 7.6% 3.5 1,416 12.7% 56.0% in 2017, an increase of 15.5% from the previous year. In terms Key regional coldspots Gloucestershire 25,921 20.4% 6.8% 2.8 1,095 10.2% -10.0% of overall contract awards, hotspots were in the City of Bristol Swindon 31,986 16.8% 6.2% 5.3 434 10.4% -26.5% and Somerset. REGION FOCUS… Wiltshire 22,260 19.8% 7.0% 3.5 765 2.0% 6.3% East of England Bournemouth and Poole 24,519 23.6% 5.7% 3.5 488 4.9% 69.0% East Midlands Somerset had the largest growth in contracts Dorset CC 19,898 14.4% 8.2% 2.4 689 -0.7% 2.8% awarded in 2017, increasing by 88.5% Somerset 21,152 20.4% 7.4% 3.4 862 6.0% 88.5% London Cornwall and Isles of Scilly 18,231 21.5% 8.6% 2.7 874 11.6% 9.3% North East Plymouth 20,058 14.5% 6.2% 5.4 329 6.8% -36.5% North West Torbay 15,690 8.7% 7.4% 4.1 155 6.2% -36.4% Scotland Devon CC 21,719 23.4% 8.6% 1.9 1,460 11.5% 12.4% 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 2018 Residential Commercial Infrastructure To navigate just click on buttons £1.9 billion worth of residential contracts were awarded in Commercial contract awards totalled £581 million Contract awards for infrastructure projects in the South below and they will take you directly the South West region in 2017, 3.4% higher than the value in 2017, 60.0% higher than in 2016. Hotspots West totalled £1.1 billion in 2017, which was double the to your chosen section. awarded in 2016. There was one hotspot in Wiltshire and for commercial activity were Devon CC, Dorset value awarded in 2016. The City of Bristol, Bournemouth Home three regions registered as coldspots: Swindon, Torbay, CC, Swindon, Wiltshire, and Bath and North and Poole, and Somerset were hotspots, refl ecting the and Cornwall and Isles of Scilly. The two largest contract East Somerset, North Somerset and South award of two large projects. The fi rst was the £460 million Overview awards in the region were for accommodation on the GLOUCESTER Gloucestershire. Four of the top ten largest projects GLOUCESTER mechanical and electricals package for Hinkley Point C. GLOUCESTER Key regional hotspots Army Basing Programme, including £96.9 million for were for off ices at business parks around Bristol, The other large contract in 2017 was also in the energy Key regional coldspots The Packway in Larkhill and £60.7 million for homes as ranging in value from £17.1 million to £58.4 million. sub-sector: a £252 million waste to energy plant in BRISTOL BRISTOL BRISTOL part of Project Allenby Connaught in Bulford. Off ices on the Woolsbridge Industrial Estate Avonmouth, Bristol. BATH BATH BATH REGION FOCUS…

WELLS in East Dorset accounted WELLS WELLS East of England SALISBURY for a £50.1 million SALISBURY SALISBURY contract award. East Midlands

EXETER EXETER EXETER London North East PLYMOUTH PLYMOUTH PLYMOUTH TRURO TRURO TRURO North West Scotland South East South West TOP TOP TOP Residential Contracts Commercial Contracts Infrastructure Contracts Wales 10 The top 10 residential contracts by value of project. 10 The top 10 commercial contracts by value of project. 10 The top 10 infrastructure contracts by value of project. West Midlands Project Units Value Start Finish Project Type Value Start Finish Project Value Start Finish Yorkshire & Humber The Packway, Larkhill 444 £96.9m Sep 17 Sep 19 Project Henley, Bristol Business Park O ff i c e s £58.4m Oct 17 Oct 19 Hinkley Point C M&E package £460m Jan 19 Jan 23 Project Allenby, Bulford - £60.7m - - Woolsbridge Industrial Estate O ff i c e s £50.1m - - Avonmouth waste to energy plant £252m Apr 17 Apr 20 CASE STUDY… Hengrove Park, Bristol 260 £50m - - Horizon 38 Business Park, Bristol O ff i c e s £40m - - Bristol Temple Quarter infrastructure works £28m Jul 17 Jul 19 HS2 Hubs Hunters Moon, Wiltshire 450 £45m Jan 19 Jan 24 IKEA Exeter Retail £28m Apr 17 Apr 18 Hinkley Point C Williton park & ride £20m Jul 17 Sep 18 Derrys Building, Plymouth - £43.8m May 17 Jan 19 Temple Way Glassfi elds Scheme O ff i c e s £22m Sep 17 Sep 19 Colley Lane southern access road £20m Apr 18 Sep 19 Belgrave Road, Exeter, student housing - £40m Jul 17 Jul 19 Hayle Rugby Club Retail £20m Jul 17 Jan 19 Yeovil western corridor highway improvements £17m Sep 17 Mar 19 Methodology Veneti apartment, Poole - £32m Nov 17 Nov 19 Dyson HQ expansion O ff i c e s £19m May 17 - C & D class roads improvements cluster, Dorset £14m Jul 17 Jul 20 About the CPA Wheatpieces phase 1A, Tewkesbury 261 £29.5m Jun 17 Jun 21 Access 18 Business Park, Bristol O ff i c e s £17.1m - - Indian Queens industrial estate expansion £12.5m - - Project Allenby, Larkhill Garrison - £29.2m - - Honeybourne Place, Cheltenham O ff i c e s £15m Sep 17 Feb 19 Dunsland Cross wind farm £12m - - University of Bath student accommodation - £27.5m - - Huntworth Roundabout multi-use project O ff i c e s £15m Sep 17 Sep 19 Bristol International Airport, multi-storey car park £12m Oct 17 Jan 19 BROUGHT TO YOU BY

Source: Barbour ABI, CPA Source: Barbour ABI, CPA Source: Barbour ABI, CPA UK Construction FOCUS ON… Hotspots Wales REPORT 2018 To navigate just click on buttons below and they will take you directly Wales accounts for 3.4% of total UK GVA and has the lowest GVA per GVA growth Construction Unemployment Construction Construction Contracts Awards GVA per head in the UK. Key sectors of economic activity in the head 2011-2016 % of GVA rate GVA (2016) Growth (2016) Growth (2017) to your chosen section. region are industrial production and manufacturing, distribution UK Average 26,584 19.8% 6.2% 4.4 108,124 6.0% 4.3% Home and transport, public administration and real estate activities. Wales 19,200 18.8% 6.4% 4.8 3,814 11.2% -29.0% Overview Construction accounted for 6.4% of regional GVA in 2016 and Isle of Anglesey 13,844 10.7% 7.8% 3.1 75 4.2% -93.2% Key regional hotspots increased 11.2% in that year. Gwynedd 19,436 16.5% 6.7% 2.4 161 11.0% 71.2% Key regional coldspots The value of contracts awarded in the region totalled £2.1 billion Conwy and Denbighshire 16,719 18.1% 7.1% 3.6 250 -0.4% -42.5% in 2017, a decrease of 29.0% from the previous year. In terms of South West Wales 16,721 17.5% 7.7% 4.6 496 14.0% 17.5% REGION FOCUS… overall contract awards, hotspots were in South West Wales and Central Valleys 16,730 24.9% 7.4% 5.7 370 12.8% -12.2% East of England Cardiff and Vale of Glamorgan. Gwent Valleys 14,758 19.0% 6.7% 5.7 337 12.3% 253.0%

Bridgend and Neath Port Talbot 18,565 21.3% 6.9% 6 367 13.6% -16.4% East Midlands

Swansea 19,204 16.6% 6.6% 4.6 311 16.9% 16.6% London Gwent Valleys had the largest growth in Monmouthshire and Newport 21,967 13.4% 6.0% 4.1 318 14.8% -40.1% North East contracts awarded in 2017, increasing by 253% Cardiff and Vale of Glamorgan 24,583 19.1% 5.2% 6 622 8.0% 20.2% North West Flintshire and Wrexham 23,274 22.9% 4.6% 3.5 315 13.3% -71.2% Scotland Powys 17,412 15.6% 8.3% 2.5 191 7.9% -81.2% 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 2018 Residential Commercial Infrastructure To navigate just click on buttons £439 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 2017, £172 million in 2017, 12.5% lower than in projects in Wales totalled £439 million to your chosen section. 22.3% lower than the value awarded 2016. Hotspots for commercial activity in 2017, which was 68.4% lower than the Home in 2016. Powys was the only hotspot were in Bridgend and Neath Port value awarded in 2016. Hotspots were with coldspots in Cardiff and Vale Talbot, Gwynedd, Isle of Anglesey recorded in the Central Valleys and Overview of Glamorgan, Conwy and Denbighshire, and Powys. Cardiff and Vale of Glamorgan Swansea, reflecting large energy and utilities Key regional hotspots and Flintshire and Wrexham. Nevertheless, was a coldspot. Nevertheless, the largest projects. This includes a £60 million contract Key regional coldspots three student accommodation projects contract awards for Wales were for for work on the Carmarthenshire Dock in Cardiff were in the top projects in Cardiff, including outfall pipe under Ofwat’s REGION FOCUS… ten largest contracts: £47.4 million for plots AMP6 regulated period, ST DAVIDS ST DAVIDS ST DAVIDS East of England £38 million for Glossop 6 & 7 at Cardiff Central, a the £55.5 million Brenig

SWANSEA SWANSEA SWANSEA East Midlands Road, £28 million for the NEWPORT 12-storey office building for NEWPORT wind farm in Denbighshire, NEWPORT Capital Quarter and £20 million HMRC, the £34.3 million No 1 and the £55 million road CARDIFF CARDIFF CARDIFF London for Custom House. John Street and the fit-out of the BBC Wales improvements work on the A40 between North East HQ (£12 million). Llanddewi Valfrey and Penblewin in Pembrokeshire. North West Scotland South East South West TOP Residential Contracts TOP Commercial Contracts TOP Infrastructure Contracts Wales 10 The top 10 residential contracts by value of project. 10 The top 10 commercial contracts by value of project. 10 The top 10 infrastructure contracts by value of project. West Midlands Project Units Value Start Finish Project Type Value Start Finish Project Value Start Finish Yorkshire & Humber Glossop Road student accommodation - £38m Jul 17 Jul 19 Cardiff Central plots 6 & 7 Offices £47.4m Oct 17 Dec 19 Carmarthenshire Dock outfall pipe (AMP6) £60m - - Capital Quarter student accommodation - £28m Apr 17 Oct 18 No 1 John Street, Cardiff Offices £34.3m - - Brenig wind farm £55.5m Jun 17 Aug 18 CASE STUDY… St Cyres, Powys 215 £21.5m Mar 18 Mar 22 BBC Wales HQ – fit-out Offices £12m Sep 16 Apr 18 A40 Llanddewi Valfrey to Penblewin £55m Jan 18 Jan 20 HS2 Hubs Custom House student accommodation - £20m Jan 18 Nov 19 Morrisons, Abergavenny Retail £10m Jul 17 Feb 18 Mynydd y Gwair wind farm £49m Dec 17 Dec 19 Swanbridge Road, Vale of Glamorgan 190 £19m - - Ocean Plaza phase 2, Rhyl Retail £9m Jan 17 Oct 17 Swansea Bay Tidal Lagoon – ancillary works £25m - - Caradog House redevelopment, Cardiff - £19m May 17 Aug 18 ONS Data Campus, Newport Offices £5m - - A4226 improvements £20m Apr 18 Apr 19 Methodology Barry Dock, South Quay Waterside 153 £15m Nov 17 Nov 20 Lidl, Penylan Retail £3.8m Apr 17 Jan 18 Llwyn Onn water treatment works, Wrexham £14m - - About the CPA Glan Llyn phase 2B, Newport 146 £14.6m Oct 17 Oct 20 Lidl, Porthmadog Retail £3.4m - - Nant Llesg surface mine £10m Jul 17 Jul 31 St Ederyns Village, phase 4, Cardiff - £13m Jul 17 Jul 19 Cwm Cynon Business Park Offices £3.2m Nov 17 - Maes-Yr-Haf Lane flexible generation facility £9.6m May 17 Oct 17 Tyddyn Bach, Anglesey 123 £12m - - Royal British Legion redevelopment, Swansea Retail £3m Jan 18 Jul 19 Mountain Ash cross valley link scheme £8m Apr 18 Apr 19 BROUGHT TO YOU BY

Source: Barbour ABI, CPA Source: Barbour ABI, CPA Source: Barbour ABI, CPA UK Construction FOCUS ON… Hotspots West Midlands REPORT 2018 To navigate just click on buttons below and they will take you directly The West Midlands region accounts for 7.4% of UK GVA. It GVA per GVA growth Construction Unemployment Construction Construction Contracts Awards includes the local authorities in the West Midlands Combined head 2011-2016 % of GVA rate GVA (2016) Growth (2016) Growth (2017) to your chosen section. Authority: Birmingham, Coventry, Dudley, Sandwell, Solihull, UK Average 26,584 19.8% 6.2% 4.4 108,124 6.0% 4.3% Home Walsall and Wolverhampton. Key sectors of regional economic West Midlands 22,144 23.4% 6.5% 5.2 8,299 2.6% 50.1% Overview activity are industrial production and manufacturing, public Herefordshire, County of 20,834 15.4% 7.4% 2.7 291 6.2% 85.8% Key regional hotspots administration and distribution and transport. Construction GVA Worcestershire 22,307 28.6% 6.3% 3.7 817 10.9% -22.5% growth was 2.6% in 2016, below the overall UK rate. Construction Key regional coldspots Warwickshire 30,609 37.0% 6.2% 2.5 1,062 8.0% 118.4% accounted for 6.5% of regional GVA. The value of contracts Telford and Wrekin 22,412 17.1% 5.0% 4.8 194 5.4% 95.1% awarded in the region totalled £8.1 billion in 2017, which was REGION FOCUS… Shropshire CC 19,961 13.5% 8.7% 4.1 545 -0.4% -6.5% 50.1% higher than the value in 2016. In terms of overall contract East of England Stoke-on-Trent 20,763 21.1% 6.0% 5.8 314 -5.7% -9.1% awards, there were three hotspots: Birmingham, Coventry, and East Midlands Warwickshire, and two coldspots: Walsall and Staffordshire CC. Staffordshire CC 19,260 17.0% 8.6% 4.1 1,437 4.1% -29.8% Birmingham 23,300 22.1% 5.3% 8.3 1,400 -5.5% 92.8% London

Solihull 33,777 38.8% 6.0% 3.2 429 8.3% 6.5% North East Sandwell had the largest growth in contracts Coventry 23,637 36.0% 3.2% 5.3 269 9.8% 30.7% North West Dudley 16,054 13.4% 8.7% 5.6 446 -1.5% 48.4% awarded in 2017, increasing by 122.8% Scotland Sandwell 18,651 21.6% 7.0% 8.4 424 1.9% 122.8% South East Walsall 17,430 21.2% 8.4% 5.7 409 2.0% -69.9% South West Wolverhampton 18,306 5.5% 5.6% 7.8 261 2.8% 27.7% 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 2018 Residential Commercial Infrastructure To navigate just click on buttons £2.2 billion worth of residential contracts were Commercial contract awards totalled £447 million Contract awards for infrastructure projects in below and they will take you directly awarded in the West Midlands region in 2017, in 2017, 53.6% lower than the value in 2016. the West Midlands region totalled £4.2 billion to your chosen section. 14.6% higher than the value There were no hotspots in 2017, which was four STOKE-ON-TRENT STOKE-ON-TRENT STOKE-ON-TRENT Home awarded in 2016. Contract for commercial activity, times higher than the awards were largely in line with contract awards value awarded in 2016. Overview with long-term averages, LICHFIELD at similar levels to the LICHFIELD Hotspots of activity were LICHFIELD Key regional hotspots although Solihull and WOLVERHAMPTON long-term average. WOLVERHAMPTON in Birmingham and WOLVERHAMPTON BIRMINGHAM BIRMINGHAM BIRMINGHAM Key regional coldspots Walsall were coldspots. Walsall was a coldspot, Warwickshire, which COVENTRY COVENTRY COVENTRY Contracts awarded however. Major account for three of REGION FOCUS… include the £77 million contracts refl ected the the six HS2 contracts WORCESTER WORCESTER WORCESTER East of England development on Bristol ongoing redevelopment awarded in 2017, along Street in Birmingham, HEREFORD of Birmingham city centre HEREFORD with Coventry, Sandwell HEREFORD East Midlands comprising 772 units, a and included 3 Arena and Stoke-on-Trent. Other London £50 million redevelopment Central (£65 million), Two than HS2, the remaining top North East of the Battery Park site in Selly Chamberlain Square (£40 million), fi ve contracts in the region were Oak, Birmingham and £50 million for the Fairfax Street Eastside Locks (£40 million) and the fi t-out of HSBC’s for roads: the £100 million M5 Oldbury viaduct and the North West student accommodation development in Coventry. new headquarters (£20 million). £70 million A4440 link road. Scotland South East South West TOP TOP TOP Residential Contracts Commercial Contracts Infrastructure Contracts Wales 10 The top 10 residential contracts by value of project. 10 The top 10 commercial contracts by value of project. 10 The top 10 infrastructure contracts by value of project. West Midlands Project Units Value Start Finish Project Type Value Start Finish Project Value Start Finish Yorkshire & Humber Bristol Street, Birmingham 772 £77m Aug 17 Aug 25 3 Arena Central, Birmingham O ff i c e s £65m Jan 18 Jan 20 Birmingham Spur (HS2) £1.5b Dec 18 Dec 23 Fairfax Street student accommodation - £50m Jun 17 Jun 19 Paradise Circus, Two Chamberlain Square O ff i c e s £40m Sep 17 Oct 19 Delta Junction (HS2) £1.3b Dec 18 Dec 23 CASE STUDY… Selly Oak redevelopment, Birmingham - £50m Oct 17 Oct 19 Eastside Locks, Building 5, Birmingham O ff i c e s £40m Apr 18 Apr 20 Long Itchington Wood Tunnel (HS2) £900m Dec 18 Dec 23 HS2 Hubs Deanslade Park project, Lichfi eld 475 £47.5m Apr 18 - Arena Central – HSBC fi t-out O ff i c e s £20m Jul 17 Jul 18 M5 Oldbury Viaduct £100m May 17 May 19 University of Warwick, Cryfi eld Village - £45m Dec 17 Dec 20 Sainsbury's Selly Oak Retail £15m Aug 17 Aug 18 A4440 southern link road £70m Jan 19 Jan 21 Castle Farm Way, Telford 409 £41m Apr 18 - Jaguar Land Rover – south design studio O ff i c e s £15m Dec 17 Feb 19 Wolverhampton train station interchange project £40m Jul 17 Jul 18 Methodology International House, student acc. - £38m Jan 17 Aug 18 102 New Street, Birmingham O ff i c e s £13m Jun 17 - Whitley South – Tollbar Island junctions £40m May 17 Sep 18 About the CPA Leadon Way, Herefordshire 321 £32.1m - - Telford shopping centre, northern quarter Retail £10m Jun 17 - HMP Rye Hill house block £30m Jul 17 Jul 19 Streethay phase 2, Lichfi eld 322 £32.1m Jun 18 - Selly Oak redevelopment, retail terrace Retail £10m Sep 17 Jan 19 Strongford thermal hydrolysis plant £24m Jan 18 Jan 19 Friars Road student accommodation - £32m Nov 17 Nov 19 Telford shopping centre extension Retail £10m Nov 17 Nov 18 Marina Quay, Wyre Forest £23m Apr 18 Oct 19 BROUGHT TO YOU BY

Source: Barbour ABI, CPA Source: Barbour ABI, CPA Source: Barbour ABI, CPA UK Construction FOCUS ON… Hotspots Yorkshire & Humber REPORT 2018 To navigate just click on buttons below and they will take you directly The Yorkshire and Humber region accounts for 6.6% of total UK GVA per GVA growth Construction Unemployment Construction Construction Contracts Awards GVA. Key sectors of regional economic activity are industrial head 2011-2016 % of GVA rate GVA (2016) Growth (2016) Growth (2017) to your chosen section. production and manufacturing, distribution and transport and UK Average 26,584 19.8% 6.2% 4.4 108,124 6.0% 4.3% Home public administration. Construction grew 7.4% in 2016, above the Yorkshire and the Humber 21,285 16.0% 6.5% 5.0 7,532 7.4% 77.1% Overview overall UK growth rate of 6.0% and accounted for 6.5% of regional Kingston upon Hull, City of 21,497 15.5% 6.5% 7.9 364 11.7% -38.2% Key regional hotspots GVA in 2016. East Riding of Yorkshire 18,822 16.3% 6.4% 3.3 404 10.1% -10.3% Key regional coldspots The value of contracts awarded totalled £6.7 billion in 2017, an North and North East Lincolnshire 22,326 10.2% 6.8% 5.3 498 4.2% -13.6% increase of 77.1% from the previous year. In terms of overall York 24,006 8.6% 5.8% 2.9 289 1.8% 39.7% REGION FOCUS… contract awards, Leeds and Barnsley, Doncaster and Rotherham North Yorkshire CC 22,588 12.6% 6.2% 4.2 845 4.6% -8.2% East of England were hotspots, but contract awards in Wakefield were below the Barnsley, Doncaster and Rotherham 17,213 21.8% 9.4% 5.6 1,307 9.8% 209.0% long-term average value. Sheffield 20,774 14.3% 5.4% 6.4 647 3.9% 5.1% East Midlands

Bradford 18,810 18.8% 5.0% 5.9 506 3.7% 114.2% London

Leeds 28,597 16.6% 6.2% 4.3 1,387 9.1% 374.2% North East Leeds dominated the growth in contracts Calderdale and Kirklees 18,752 16.5% 6.7% 3.7 817 9.7% 16.1% North West Wakefield 21,035 19.5% 6.6% 6.0 470 9.3% -72.2% awarded in 2017, increasing by 374.2% 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 2018 Residential Commercial Infrastructure To navigate just click on buttons £1.7 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 £781 million in 2017, in the Yorkshire Home the Yorkshire and RIPON 58.1% higher RIPON and Humber RIPON Humber in 2017, than in 2016. region totalled Overview an increase of YORK Barnsley, Doncaster YORK £2.8 billion in 2017, YORK Key regional hotspots BRADFORD BRADFORD BRADFORD LEEDS LEEDS LEEDS 19.3% compared to the KINGSTON and Rotherham was a KINGSTON four times larger than KINGSTON UPON HULL UPON HULL UPON HULL Key regional coldspots value awarded in 2016. commercial hotspot the 2016 value. This was WAKEFIELD WAKEFIELD WAKEFIELD There were no residential in 2017, refl ecting the due to the country’s REGION FOCUS… hotspots, with Wakefi eld and awards of contracts for the largest contract in 2017, the East of England North and North East Lincolnshire SHEFFIELD regeneration of Barnsley: phase 1 SHEFFIELD £2.25 billion upgrade of the SHEFFIELD registering as coldspots. The West at £120 million, phase 2 at £70 million Transpennine rail line west of Leeds. East Midlands Campus student accommodation scheme in Hull, and Barnsley Markets phase 1 at £23 million. The Not surprisingly, Leeds was an infrastructure hotspot. London at a value of £130 million, was in the top ten largest £121 million off ices development at 7 & 8 Wellington Contract awards were also above the long-term North East residential contracts in Great Britain in 2017, whilst Place in Leeds was the region’s largest contract award. average in Bradford. The £120 million Keighley energy work on the £67.7 million Germany Beck development The City of Kingston upon Hull was a commercial from waste facility was the second-largest contract North West in York will be phased in until completion in 2027. coldspot during 2017. award in the region. Scotland South East South West TOP TOP TOP Residential Contracts Commercial Contracts Infrastructure Contracts Wales 10 The top 10 residential contracts by value of project. 10 The top 10 commercial contracts by value of project. 10 The top 10 infrastructure contracts by value of project. West Midlands Project Units Value Start Finish Project Type Value Start Finish Project Value Start Finish Yorkshire & Humber West Campus, Hull, student acc. - £130m May 17 Dec 19 7 & 8 Wellington Place, Leeds O ff i c e s £121m Sep 17 Sep 20 Transpennine rail upgrade £2.25b Oct 18 Oct 27 Germany Beck, York 677 £67.7m Jun 17 Jun 27 Barnsley Regeneration Phase 1 Retail £120m - - Keighley energy from waste facility, Bradford £120m Sep 17 Mar 20 CASE STUDY… Hollis Croft , Sheff ield, student housing - £63m Jun 17 Aug 19 Barnsley Regeneration Phase 2 Retail £70m Aug 18 Apr 20 M1-A1 link road £36m Sep 17 Mar 26 HS2 Hubs Doncaster Monk Bridge 307 £45m Jul 17 Jul 20 Latitude Purple, Leeds O ff i c e s £40.4m - - Magnox nuclear waste containers, Sheff ield £20m Apr 17 Apr 21 Wawne Road phase 1 (Keepmoat) 285 £30m Jun 17 Jun 22 Project Cavendish, Sheff ield O ff i c e s £40m Apr 17 Jun 18 Lundwood waste water treatement works upgrade £20m Oct 17 Apr 20 Mustard Wharf, Leeds 250 £30m Jan 18 Jan 20 Sheff ield New Retail Quarter Retail £30m Apr 17 Apr 19 M181 termination junction £19m May 17 May 19 Methodology Wawne Road phase 1 (Strata Homes) 265 £27m Jul 17 - Barnsley Markets phase 1 Retail £23m Jul 17 Jul 18 Irton water treatment works modernisation £17m Jul 17 Jan 19 About the CPA Kentmere Approach, site G, Leeds 250 £25m Jul 18 Jul 25 A-Safe off ices, Calderdale O ff i c e s £20m Oct 17 Dec 17 South Bank custody suite, Grimsby £15.5m Nov 17 Mar 19 New Era Square Sheff ield, phase 2 - £25m Jul 17 Jul 19 St James Retail Park, Sheff ield Retail £19m Mar 17 Mar 18 Redcote Lane battery storage facility £15m - - Beacon Road/Napier Crescent, Scarborough 241 £25m Jul 17 Jul 22 Majestic Building redevelopment, Leeds O ff i c e s £19m Nov 17 May 19 Five Towns park, highways work £10m Oct 17 Dec 18 BROUGHT TO YOU BY

Source: Barbour ABI, CPA Source: Barbour ABI, CPA Source: Barbour ABI, CPA UK Construction CASE STUDY… Hotspots HS2 Hubs REPORT 2018 To navigate just click on buttons below and they will take you directly Phase 1 of the £55.7 billion HS2 project will construct 230 km GVA per GVA growth Construction Unemployment Construction Construction Contracts Awards of high-speed rail between London and the West Midlands, head 2011-2016 % of GVA rate GVA (2016) Growth (2016) Growth (2017) to your chosen section. including four new or redeveloped stations at London Euston, UK Average 26,584 19.8% 6.2% 4.4 108,124 6.0% 4.3% Home Old Oak Common, Birmingham Interchange and Birmingham Haringey and Islington 46,295 20.6% 4.4% 5.6 1,031 5.0% 178.5% Overview Curzon Street. Six contracts for HS2 work were awarded in the Hounslow and Richmond upon Thames 41,089 50.9% 4.2% 6.2 805 13.5% 147.5% Key regional hotspots third quarter of 2017, at a total value of £7.2 billion. Birmingham 23,300 22.1% 5.3% 8.3 1,400 -5.5% 92.8% Key regional coldspots The regions these contracts have been assigned to are Warwickshire 30,609 37.0% 6.2% 2.5 1,062 8.0% 118.4% Haringey and Islington, Hounslow and Richmond upon Thames, West Northamptonshire 25,936 21.2% 8.2% 6.4 847 10.9% 197.9% REGION FOCUS… Birmingham, Warwickshire and West Northamptonshire, Source: Barbour ABI, CPA , ONS notwithstanding that tunnelling projects will span multiple East of England regions. New station sites have been used as a tool to unlock East Midlands development for housing and commercial projects, and falls London particularly in line with government’s strategic plans in the North East Housing White Paper to densify housing provision around key transport hubs. North West Scotland South East West Northamptonshire had the largest South West growth in contracts awarded in 2017, Wales increasing by 197.9% West Midlands Yorkshire & Humber

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CONTINUED UK Construction CASE STUDY…HS2 HUBS HEAT SCALE -5 -4 -3 -2 -1 0 1 2 3 4 5 Hotspots REPORT 2018 Residential Commercial Infrastructure To navigate just click on buttons Haringey and Islington and Hounslow and Richmond Commercial contracts did not yield any hotspots in the HS2 The HS2 contracts awarded to the five regions in 2017 below and they will take you directly upon Thames were residential hotspots in 2017. The largest hubs in 2017. In part, this reflects the high volume and value totalled £7.2 billion, not surprisingly producing infrastructure to your chosen section. contracts awarded were the £100 million first phase of of contract awards in Birmingham in 2016, which had five of hotspots in each. Two projects will take place in Birmingham Home Lionel Road, the housing element of Brentford FC’s new the top 30 largest commercial contracts awarded in 2016 as – the £1.5 billion Birmingham spur to link the mainline to the stadium development in Kew Bridge and the £76.5 million part of its city centre regeneration. Later phases of key offices planned new Curzon Street station in the city centre, and Overview Lampton Road development in Hounslow. Birmingham developments at Arena Central and Paradise Circus were the £1.3 billion Delta Junction. The £50 million replacement Key regional hotspots was a residential hotspot in 2016 and contract awards awarded contracts in 2017, however. A £30 million contract of Hampstead Road Bridge is also linked to HS2 work Key regional coldspots in 2017 show that the city centre was awarded for Four Waterside around London Euston station. regeneration continues, in Northampton, which Outside of HS2, contracts LEICESTER LEICESTER LEICESTER REGION FOCUS… with £77 million and BIRMINGHAM forms part of the BIRMINGHAM awards included the BIRMINGHAM East of England £50 million housing region’s new £36 million M1-A1 developments enterprise zone. link road in Leeds. East Midlands at Bristol Street London and Selly Oak, COVENTRY COVENTRY COVENTRY North East respectively. BUCKINGHAMSHIRE BUCKINGHAMSHIRE BUCKINGHAMSHIRE North West

EALING EALING EALING Scotland South East South West TOP TOP TOP Residential Contracts Commercial Contracts Infrastructure Contracts Wales 10 The top 10 residential contracts by value of project. 10 The top 10 commercial contracts by value of project. 10 The top 10 infrastructure contracts by value of project. West Midlands Project Units Value Start Finish Project Type Value Start Finish Project Value Start Finish Yorkshire & Humber Lionel Road, Kew Bridge phase 1 648 £100m Feb 18 Feb 21 207 Old Street – The Tower Offices £73m Oct 17 Jun 18 Birmingham Spur (HS2) £1.5b Dec 18 Dec 23 Bristol Street, Birmingham 772 £77m Aug 17 Aug 25 3 Arena Central, Birmingham Offices £65m Jan 18 Jan 20 Delta Junction (HS2) £1.3b Dec 18 Dec 23 CASE STUDY… Lampton Road, Hounslow 762 £76.5m Aug 17 - Paradise Circus, Two Chamberlain Square Offices £40m Sep 17 Oct 19 Chiltern Tunnels (HS2) £1.3b Dec 18 Dec 23 Selly Oak redevelopment, Birmingham - £50m Oct 17 Oct 19 Eastside Locks, Building 5, Birmingham Offices £40m Apr 18 Apr 20 North Portal of the Chiltern Tunnel (HS2) £1.3b Dec 18 Dec 23 HS2 Hubs University of Warwick, Cryfield Village - £45m Dec 17 Dec 20 Four Waterside, Northampton Offices £30m Jan 17 Jan 19 Euston Tunnels and Approaches (HS2) £900m Dec 18 Dec 23 Doncaster Monk Bridge, Leeds 307 £45m Jul 17 Jul 20 Arena Central – HSBC fit-out Offices £20m Jul 17 Jul 18 Long Itchington Wood Tunnel (HS2) £900m Dec 18 Dec 23 Methodology Mustard Wharf, Leeds 250 £30m Jan 18 Jan 20 Sainsbury's Selly Oak Retail £15m Aug 17 Aug 18 Hampstead Road Bridge Replacement £50m - - About the CPA Kentmere Approach, site G, Leeds 250 £25m Jul 18 Jul 25 Jaguar Land Rover – south design studio Offices £15m Dec 17 Feb 19 M1-A1 link road £36m Sep 17 Mar 26 - 190 £31m Nov 16 Nov 18 131 Finsbury Pavement, 9th Floor Extension Offices £14m Oct 17 Oct 18 - £558m Feb 17 Feb 21 - - - - - 102 New Street, Birmingham Offices £13m Jun 17 - - £500m Jan 21 Jan 24 BROUGHT TO YOU BY

Source: Barbour ABI, CPA Off/Ret = Offices/Retail Source: Barbour ABI, CPA Source: Barbour ABI, CPA UK Construction METHODOLOGY… Hotspots Calculating a hotspot or coldspot REPORT 2018 To navigate just click on buttons The ONS releases construction output data for Great Britain on a Regional breakdown below and they will take you directly monthly and quarterly basis, and a regional breakdown of construction to your chosen section. Regions in Great Britain have been broken down based on the activity is reported three months following the end of the reference Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS) level 3 groupings. Home quarter. This regional data is only available on a non-seasonally adjusted This is one level above local authority-level data and is the EU and Overview basis and in current prices, making analysis more difficult than for Eurostat standard for the subdivision of countries for statistical purposes. national output data, which is available in constant price terms to Key regional hotspots indicate volumes of work. There are 174 NUTS3 regions in the UK, although the regions in this report Key regional coldspots cover the 168 regions in Great Britain only, to match the geographical Given the lags in reporting actual volumes of construction work coverage of construction output data from the ONS. REGION FOCUS… completed, and the difficulties in measuring activity on a regional basis, East of England this research seeks to identify regional ‘hotspots’ – where the value of Sector breakdown construction contracts awarded in 2017 is above its historical average. East Midlands The analysis is broken down to show contract awards in the three largest This forward-looking approach aims to signpost areas of strength for London construction sectors: residential, commercial and infrastructure. construction over the next 12 months. North East Residential: housing (private developments), student accommodation, Methodology new build, conversions and change of use North West The hotspots are calculated using Barbour ABI data on contract awards, Scotland Commercial: offices, retail, supermarkets based on actual contract values, which have not been adjusted for South East inflation or deflation. The measure of heat indicates how the value Infrastructure: railways and stations, roads, bridges, ports, harbours South West of contracts awarded in 2017 compares with the long-term annual and waterways, energy and utilities average, on a scale of –5 to +5: -5 being ‘very cold’, or significantly below Wales the long-term average; +5 being ‘very hot’, or significantly above the West Midlands long-term average. Yorkshire & Humber

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