Value of Building Work Put in Place: September 2009 quarter

Embargoed until 10:45am  –  08 December 2009

Highlights

The seasonally adjusted volume of:

  • All building work fell 4.9 percent, the seventh consecutive quarterly fall.
  • Residential building work fell 5.4 percent, the eighth consecutive quarterly fall.
  • Non-residential building work fell 4.3 percent, down for the third consecutive quarter.

The trend indicates the volume of all building work decreased by 26.0 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.  

Geoff Bascand  8 December 2009
Government Statistician ISSN 1178-0371