How is UK Construction PLC faring? Is it in rude health? The headlines in the past few years have been depressing - accounting problems here, bad contracts there and housebuilding bubbles about to burst just about everywhere else. But does this tell the true story? Here, the PricewaterhouseCoopers construction team does some investigative work and digs up the figures. It has monitored the financial results for 2003 of 37 of the largest UK construction and housebuilding groups, with a combined annual turnover of more than ￡42bn. The research is based solely on publicly available information. The reported results have been segmented into construction, housebuilding, services and other.
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