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Plant Cost Index

Current Trends

The preliminary value for the September CE Plant Cost Index (CEPCI; the most recent available) rose 0.26% from the final August value, extending the series of monthly increases to six in a row. All four of the major subindices increased…

Current economic trends

The preliminary value for the August CE Plant Cost Index (CEPCI; the most recent available) rose 0.35% from the final July value, continuing a string of five consecutive monthly increases. The Equipment subindex saw the largest month-to-month gain, while the…

Current Trends

The preliminary value for the July CE Plant Cost Index (CEPCI; the most recent available) rose 0.14% from the final June value, making it the fourth consecutive monthly gain. The Equipment, Construction Labor, Business and Engineering & Supervision subindicies all…

Current Trends

The preliminary value for the June CE Plant Cost Index (CEPCI; the most recent available) rose 0.3% from the final May value, after gains the previous two months. Subcategories of the equipment index generally saw small increases, or were relatively…

Economic Indicators

The preliminary value for the May CE Plant Cost Index (CEPCI; the most recent available) rose 0.1% from the final April value, after a slightly larger rise the previous month. All subcategories of the index saw slight increases, except for…

Current Economic Trends

The preliminary value for the April CE Plant Cost Index (CEPCI; the most recent available) rose 0.4% from the final March value, after dropping the previous month. The gain was mostly due to a rise in the Equipment subindex. The…

Current Economic Trends

The preliminary value for the March CE Plant Cost Index (CEPCI) fell 0.6% from the final February value. The decline was driven by lower Equipment and Construction Labor subindices. The Engineering Supervision and Buildings subindices increased slightly in March, but…

Current Economic Trends

The CE Plant Cost Index (CEPCI) preliminary value for February 2014 (the most recent available) is 0.4% higher than the final values from January. The Equipment, Labor, Buildings and Engineering sub-indexes all saw small increases, although some of the individual…

Current Trends

  The annual 2013 CE Plant Cost Index (CEPCI) is available, and stands at 3.0% lower than the 2012 annual average value. However, the initial numbers for 2014 (January 2014 preliminary) generally increased from the final December index values from…

Current Economic Trends

Preliminary data for the December 2013 CE Plant Cost Index (CEPCI; the most recent available) show a small increase (0.17%) in the overall index compared to the November final index value. The subindices for equipment all rose in December compared…