September Construction Update from the Department for Business & Trade

The Office for National Statistics published estimates of construction output for July 2024 this
morning.

• Monthly construction output is estimated to have decreased 0.4% in volume terms in July 2024;
this follows an increase of 0.5% in June 2024.
• The decrease in monthly output came from falls in both new work (0.2%) and repair and
maintenance (0.7%).
• At the sector level, monthly output fell in five out of the nine sectors in July 2024, with the main
contributors to the monthly decrease coming from private commercial new work and private
housing repair and maintenance, which fell by 2.4% and 1.7%, respectively.
• Construction output is estimated to have grown by 1.2% in the three months to July 2024; this
came from increases in both new work (1.6%), and repair and maintenance (0.8%); the increase
in construction output in the three months to July 2024 came from increases in May 2024 (1.7%)
and June 2024 (0.5%).

Download the latest Monthly Construction update for the Department for Business & Trade here.