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Plant Cost Index

Current economic trends

The June 2016 preliminary value for the CE Plant Cost Index (CEPCI; the most recent available) ticked lower than the previous month, reversing the direction from the May value, but continuing a general lowering trend over the past several months.…

Current Economic Trends

The May 2016 preliminary value for the CE Plant Cost Index (CEPCI; the most recent available) is higher than the previous month, with the Equipment and Buildings indices rising by a significant amount. The preliminary May 2016 CEPCI value is…

Current Economic Trends: April 2016

The April 2016 preliminary value for the CE Plant Cost Index (CEPCI; the most recent available) rose from the previous month, with all four major subindices experiencing increases. The March final values were upwardly revised from the values reported last…

Economic trends

The March 2016 preliminary value for the CE Plant Cost Index (CEPCI; the most recent available) stayed even with the value from the previous month, with the Construction Labor, Buildings and Engineering & Supervision subindices all rising, while the Equipment…

Current economic trends: February CEPCI

The February 2016 preliminary value for the CE Plant Cost Index (CEPCI; the most recent available) was down from the previous month, with all subindices seeing a small decline. Within the Equipment subindex, the process instruments category was the only…

Current Economic Trends – March 2016

The annual value for the CE Plant Cost Index (CEPCI) was calculated to be 556.8, down significantly from the annual value for 2014. The monthly preliminary value for the January 2016 CEPCI (the most recent available) continued to fall from…

Current Economic Trends: CEPCI Update

The preliminary value for the December 2015 CE Plant Cost Index (CEPCI; the most recent available) was down compared to the previous month’s data, continuing a string of declines in recent months. All subindices saw declines in December, except Engineering…

Current Economic Trends: November 2015

The preliminary value for the November 2015 CE Plant Cost Index (CEPCI; the most recent available) declined again from the previous month, driven by a relatively large decrease in the Equipment subindex and small decreases in the Buildings and Construction…

Current Economic Trends

The preliminary value for the October 2015 CE Plant Cost Index (CEPCI; the most recent available) continued a string of monthly declines that has been observed in recent months. For October, the drop is driven by a decline in the…

Current Economic Trends

The preliminary value for the September 2015 CE Plant Cost Index (CEPCI; the most recent available) once again fell compared to the previous month’s value, driven by declines in Equipment producer prices, as well as drops in the Buildings and…