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"The marked fall in construction output reflected a return to declining levels of commercial building work and a sharp decrease in civil engineering activity," the surveyors said.
Optimistic forecasts were upset by the biggest fall in construction output in three years, coupled with anemic growth in the service sector and a fall in industrial output.
UK manufacturing output may have disappointed yesterday, but this has been almost wholly neutralised by the six-and-a-half-year high seen in construction output in January.
A startling drop in construction output was on its own enough to explain half the fall in GDP.
Well, the arctic conditions certainly played a big part – especially in the 3.3% fall in construction output.
That was largely on the back of a slump in construction output, which fell 1.6% in the first quarter.
Part of the slowdown was due to the biggest fall in construction output in three years, a drop of 2.2%.
The drop in construction output could have been influenced by particularly wet weather in August, the ONS said.
In Poland, in spite of construction output growing over the past year, demand for design services has continued to shrink.
"The services sector drove the rise in GDP, while construction output was flat and manufacturing output fell.
However, with construction output falling, employers are in little mood for that.
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