Value of Building Work Put in Place: December 2009 quarter

Embargoed until 10:45am  –  08 March 2010
Media release  – 
Residential building trends up

Highlights

The seasonally adjusted volume of:

  • All building work rose 0.7 percent.
  • Residential building work rose 7.4 percent.
  • Non-residential building work fell 6.1 percent, down for the third consecutive quarter.

The trend indicates the volume of all building work decreased by 25.6 percent since the most recent peak in the December 2007 quarter.  

Graph, Building work put in place, Quarterly trend values at September 1999 quarter prices, 1999-2009 

Geoff Bascand  8 March 2010
Government Statistician ISSN 1178-0371