ENR's Q1 2005 cost report is a comprehensive package of news, analysis and data. The cost report contains stories on calming steel price volatility, how higher material prices are sticking and how price escalation peaked at 10%. In this special reference issue, there is also a complete history of ENR's building and construction cost indexes and a history of the BCI and CCI for all 20 cities from 1979 through 2005. It also includes a material cost index history from 1984 to 2005 and other data, including a history of steel prices and an explanation of the methodology of major indexes. Contents 1. Article on steel costs, "Volatile Market Starts to Calm Down," which includes tables and graphs
2. Article on economics, "Double-Digit Inflation Takes Hold," which includes graphs
3. Article on inflation, "Annual Escalation Peaks at 10%," which includes tables and graph
4. Article on methodology, "What Drives ENR's Cost Indexes"
5. Historical tables of ENR cost indexes, including answers to frequently asked questions |
