2016 Permit-Completion results of EECFA countries

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See this summary table on how construction permit ended up in 2016 in the

  • 8 EECFA Countries where we have members
  • and in Hungary (as Buildecon is the Hungarian member to EUROCONSTRUCT)

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and here you can follow the development of both permit and completion on interactive charts:

  1. Residential permit-completion (number of dwellings)
  2. Non-residential permit-completion (floor area and number of buildings)

On the residential graphs, the number of dwellings is displayed, and you can choose the countries and the data type. Besides these options, on non-residential graphs you can also choose the indicator type (floor area or number of buildings)

Beyond market feeling: 3 indicators we created for understanding better what is happening on the construction market

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This post of mine appeared first on the EUROCONSTRUCT blog in mid-February and introduced one of our researches in Hungary. This research is about creating such aggregates from the data of individual construction projects which carry new, up-to-date information on the current performance of construction market segments. Since then, however, we have published our first findings for the EECFA member Romania as well. Most of the original text stands for Romania too, but there are some differences so these are included in brackets.

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Thanks to The National Bank of England for the fan chart and Cosgrove Hall Films for Jamie and the Magic Torch

The regular fan-chart of The Bank of England’s GDP forecast is perfectly honest about the challenge we all face while putting together historical construction data and forecast. Uncertainty is there, not only on the right, but on the left of the dotted line as well, thanks to revisions. This post is focusing on how uncertainty surrounding the present and some months ahead in the future could be eased with aggregated construction project data. These are Hungarian and Romanian examples.

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