The Office for National Statistics published estimates of Construction Output for March 2025 this morning.
Main points:
- Total construction output is estimated to have shown no growth (0.0%) in Quarter 1 (Jan to Mar) 2025 compared with Quarter 4 (Oct to Dec) 2024; over the period new work increased by 0.9%, while repair and maintenance fell by 1.2%.
- Monthly construction output is estimated to have grown by 0.5% in March 2025; this follows a downwardly revised increase of 0.2% in February 2025, and an unrevised decrease of 0.3% in January 2025.
- The increase in monthly output in March 2025 came from increases in both new work, and repair and maintenance, which grew by 0.6% and 0.4%, respectively.
- Anecdotal evidence from survey returns noted the positive effects of warmer and milder weather.
- At the sector level, five out of the nine sectors grew in March 2025; the main contributors to the monthly increase were private housing and infrastructure new work, which rose by 2.3% and 2.5%, respectively.
- Total construction new orders grew by 26.6% (£2,447 million) in Quarter 1 2025 compared with Quarter 4 2024; this quarterly increase came mainly from infrastructure new work and private industrial new work.
Read the full DBT report here.
(April’s report covering February 2025, which was not published by the CLC at the time, is available here for completeness)
Download the ONS Construction update here.
