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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Executive Summary

Market Definition

MARKET POSITION

MARKET TRENDS

Table 1: Total UK Construction Market at Current and Constant (1990) Prices (£m), 1989-1994

Table 2: Average Bank Base Rates ( percent), 1989-1994

Table 3: Civil Engineering Workloads Trend Survey - State of Order Books for Civil Engineering Work Compared With 12 Months Ago ( percent), 1989-1994

Market Size

TOTAL CONSTRUCTION MARKET

MARKET SECTORS

THE TOTAL CIVIL ENGINEERING MARKET

OVERSEAS WORK

Table 4: The Value Of All Construction Output in the UK at Current Prices (£m),1989-1994

Table 5: The Value of all Construction Output in the UK at 1990 Constant Prices (£m), 1989-1994

Table 6: Change in Construction Output at Constant Prices ( percent), 1989-1994

Table 7: The Value of New Orders Obtained by Contractors in the UK for all Types of Construction at Current Prices (£m), 1989-1994

Table 8: The Value of New Orders Obtained by Contractors in the UK at 1990 Constant Prices, 1989-1994

Table 9: Investment in New Buildings and Works in the UK at Current Prices (£m), 1989-1992

Table 10: The Value of all Construction Output by Sector in the UK at Current Prices (£m), 1989-1993

Table 11: The Value of New Orders Obtained by Contractors in the UK for all Types of Construction at Current Prices (£m), 1989-1993

Table 12: Workload Mix of Civil Engineering Contractors Excluding Small Firms ( percent), 1991/1992 and 1993/1994

Table 13: Estimate of Total Value of Civil Engineering Work Done in the UK (£m), 1991/1992 and 1993/1994

Table 14: UK Construction Work Overseas at Current Prices (£m), 1989-1992

Table 15: Capital Cost of Overseas Work in Hand and New Projects for Consulting Engineers by Type of Project ( percent of all projects), 1992 And 1993

Table 16: Overseas Work in Hand and New Projects for UK Consulting Engineers by Region ( percent Of Total), 1992 and 1993

Industry Background

RECENT HISTORY

INDUSTRY CONCENTRATION

Table 17: Field of Employment of Civil Engineers ( percent of total), 1989-1993

Table 18: Class of Employment of Civil Engineers ( percent of total), 1989-1993

Table 19: Size of Civil Engineering Establishment ( percent of total), 1989-1993

Table 20: Location of Employment of Civil Engineers ( percent of total), 1989-1993

Competitor Analysis

THE MARKETPLACE

MARKET LEADERS

Table 21: Major Construction Organisations with Significant Civil Engineering Activities (£m), 1992/1993

Table 22: A Selection of the Larger Contractors Engaged in Civil Engineering (£m), 1992/1994

Table 23: Leading Consulting Engineers in the UK Active in Civil Engineering (£m), 1993

Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats (SWOT)

Outside Suppliers to the Industry

MATERIALS

SUPPLIERS

PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

Current Issues

Forecasts

Table 24: Forecasts of Construction Output and Annual Changes at Constant 1990 Prices (£m and percent), 1994-1996

Company Profiles

Further Sources

ASSOCIATIONS

PERIODICALS

DIRECTORIES

GENERAL SOURCES

ICC INFORMATION SOURCES

ICC INFORMATION GROUP LTD

GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS

OTHER SOURCES

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

The UK civil engineering market had an estimated value of £9.12bn in 1993. There are now indications that, after several years of strong growth in output, the industry is likely to see a fall as a number of major projects have been completed without sufficient immediate follow on replacements.

Civil engineering is an important sub-sector of the overall UK construction industry and is responsible for around fifth of its output. The industry handles the more complex and structurally demanding parts of construction work and derives much of its output from projects such as road construction, tunnelling, building bridges and railways and providing groundwork and structural engineering for projects in many sectors of the economy.

Companies in the civil engineering business are frequently part of larger groups with activities spread across the whole construction sector and sometimes other business areas. As a consequence of the recent recession, a number of companies have restructured their operations in order to avoid a continution of the substantial losses and low profits experienced by a number of the players. The industry has also suffered from the effects of management deficiencies together with the tightening of margins which has been the consequence of more competitive tendering conditions.

Due to the privatisation of utilities and other sectors, and the Government's encouragement of private finance, especially for large transport-related projects, the civil engineering industry is coming under a number of new influences which are changing the patterns of business. More companies are becoming involved in consortia or joint venture operating companies in order to finance, design, build and operate facilities.

Despite the possibilities of a downturn in output of the industry for 1994 and 1995, the potential for new infrastructure, industrial and commercial projects in the UK look promising but the exact timing for much of the work is uncertain. At the present, 1996 appears to be the year in which an upturn in output is likely, bearing in mind that many projects take several years from initiation to completion. In overseas markets, UK contractors have been achieving a number of successes and the trend for many civil engineering companies to increase the proportion of their work derived from outside the UK is expected to continue.

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