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Road construction costs up 1.2 per cent
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Construction cost index for road construction, Q2 2016

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Road construction costs up 1.2 per cent

Road construction costs increased by 1.2 per cent from the first quarter of 2016 to the second quarter of 2016. Material costs rose by 2.3 per cent in the same period.

Construction cost index for road constructions. 1st quarter 2004=100Published 5 July 2016
2nd quarter 2016Change in per cent
1st quarter 2016 - 2nd quarter 20162nd quarter 2015 - 2nd quarter 2016
Road construction, total157.61.21.4
Open air roads156.21.20.7
Concrete bridges164.11.02.4
Rock tunnels154.21.02.4
 
Maintenance of roads, total154.91.70.2
Asphalt work159.83.8-4.3
Maintenance in wintertime147.20.50.3

Source: Statistics Norway

Figure 1. Construction cost index for road constructions and Cost index for maintenance of roads. Percentage change from the same quarter the previous year

The construction costs of open air roads increased by 1.2 per cent, while the costs of rock tunnels and concrete bridges both rose by 1.0 per cent.

Over the past year, the construction costs of concrete bridges and rock tunnels have both risen by 2.4 per cent. Costs for open air roads rose by 0.7 per cent in the same period.

The maintenance costs of roads increased by 1.7 per cent from the first quarter of 2016 to the second quarter of 2016, and were 0.2 per cent higher than in the second quarter of 2015.