Construction industry figures slide

摘要

The estimated value of total engineering construction work done in the December 2014 quarter fell 3%, the latest Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) figures show. The trend estimate for the value of total engineering construction work done dropped 2.8% in the last quarter of 2014 while the seasonally adjusted estimate for the value of total engineering construction work done fell 0.6% to $27.8 billion. Seasonally adjusted estimates for the private sector revealed a drop of 2.8% to $21.5 billion and for the public sector, down 2.3% to $6.3 billion. Comparing December 2014 against the previous year's last quarter, the trend estimates for value of total engineering work done were down 13.3%.