The report, which has been published in the latest Building magazine, identifies the following key changes for the quarter:

• Construction inflation measures all falling.
• Electrical cost inflation zero over the last year.
• Consumer price inflation higher than construction price inflation and forecast fall being stubbornly resisted.
• Higher oil prices have impacted trades such as roadbuilding.
• Lower metals prices have brought cladding costs down.
• Manufacturing industries’ input costs sharply lower.
• Plumbers in England and Wales are the only trade so far to receive any wage increase in 2012.

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