Building Price and Cost Indices for UK Public Sector Construction

Quarterly price and cost indices serve as a basic tool for estimating, cost checking, and fee negotiation on public sector construction works, including roads. The dataset is designated as National Statistics and was produced by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with responsibility transferring to the Office for National Statistics in April 2015. It is available in HTML format under the OGL-UK-3.0 license.

Use Cases

• Estimate project costs for public sector construction works based on quarterly price indices.
• Check and negotiate fees for construction contracts based on historical cost trends.
• Analyze inflation and cost changes in the UK construction sector over time.

Strengths

• Designated as National Statistics, indicating official quality standards.
• Covers public sector construction works, including roads, as mentioned in the description.
• Available under the permissive OGL-UK-3.0 license for reuse.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data is presented in HTML format, which may require parsing for analytical use.

Provenance

Source

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (formerly Business, Innovation and Skills); Office for National Statistics from April 2015.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:33:04.302784; freshness should be verified.

Geography

United Kingdom