Construction Products Association
The Construction Products Association acts as a single, influential voice for the manufacturers and suppliers of construction products.
The Association's aim is to build a growing, profitable and sustainable future for the construction products industry. In order to achieve these aims, the Association is focusing its activities in four specific areas:
- Investment in the built environment
- Developing a positive regulatory and fiscal framework
- Improving industry performance
- Delivering sustainable construction
The construction products industry is at the heart of the UK economy, providing essential materials for our homes, schools, hospitals, factories, offices, roads and railways.
Every year the industry:
- has an output of £40 billion
- exports 10% of output
Accounts for:
- 40% of total construction output
- 20% of the UK's manufacturing output
- 4% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
And employs:
- over 650,000 people in almost 30,000 companies
Latest Press Releases
- Construction suffers worst fall in output since 1974
- Construction Continues to Decline
- Construction industry facing another bleak year
- Construction product sales show some signs of encouragement, but industry still in recession
- Pre-budget cuts in capital spending disappoint Construction Products Association
- Public spending limits sharp downturn in construction
- Association welcomes energy efficiency standard
- Construction Products Association welcomes government's first chief construction adviser
- Majority of companies still see no improvement in credit insurance market
- Confidence and finance key to long term housing recovery
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