The UK Construction Products Association (CPA) State of Trade Survey Quarter 1 2021 is now available for GAI members.

Download the report here.

This details that the recovery in construction product manufacturing continued in the first quarter of 2021 in the UK. So far, the pick-up in construction activity has been led by private housing, infrastructure and the repair and maintenance sectors. Nevertheless, a constrained global supply of raw materials and components, as well as the associated increases in prices, is weighing on the outlook for the year ahead. 

CPA Construction Industry Scenarios

The Construction Products Association have issued the GB Construction Industry Scenarios (Winter 2020/21) which are available as a member benefit to GAI members.

The report details the following main scenarios from CPA:

• Construction output is anticipated to rise by14.0% in 2021, after falling 14.3% in 2020
• Further growth of 4.9% in 2022 is expected to ensure that construction output at the end of next year surpasses 2019’s levels of output.
• Infrastructure output to rise 32.1% in 2021
• Private housing output to rise 15.5% in 2021
• Commercial output at the end of 2022 still expected to be lower than in 2019, pre-Covid-19
• Private housing repair, maintenance and improvement to grow by 10.1% in 2021
• Public housing repair, maintenance and improvement to rise by 20.6% in 2021

GAI members are able to download the full reports below:

• CPA Construction Industry Scenarios (January 2021)
• CPA Brexit Update (January 2021)
• Construction Industry Scenarios (January 2021) (xls)