{"id":519446,"date":"2025-04-29T09:50:05","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T08:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.constructionnews.co.uk\/?p=519446"},"modified":"2025-04-29T09:51:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T08:51:10","slug":"uk-construction-activity-march-2025-offices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.constructionnews.co.uk\/cn-intelligence\/uk-construction-activity-march-2025-offices-29-04-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"UK construction activity March 2025: Offices"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"everviz-AJBAp9Mwk\" class=\"everviz-AJBAp9Mwk\"><script src=\"https:\/\/app.everviz.com\/inject\/AJBAp9Mwk\/?v=25\" defer=\"defer\"><\/script><\/div>\n<h3>Offices overview<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>28 per cent increase in project starts year-on-year<\/li>\n<li>41 per cent decrease in main contract awards from last year<\/li>\n<li>32 per cent decrease in detailed planning approvals compared to 2023<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The first quarter of 2025 was strong for office starts, with the sector having grown both year-on-year and quarter-on-quarter. This growth was primarily driven by major projects (\u00a3100m or more). Main contract awards and detailed planning approvals, on the other hand, decreased against both periods.<\/p>\n<p>Data centres are a relatively small but fast expanding segment of the office sector. The surge of investment in AI development, alongside rising demand from more established uses of processing capacity is spurring investment in new data centres. This is expected to help drive sector growth over the next two years. Furthermore, construction of the \u00a3360.29m Epic Long Ashton office campus in Bristol was approved and is due to start in the last quarter of 2025.<\/p>\n<h3>Types of projects started<\/h3>\n<p>Despite overall sector growth, only the two higher value bands experienced a rise in project starts.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Project starts in the over \u00a3100m value band totalled \u00a31.325b, having jumped 69 per cent on a year ago<\/li>\n<li>The \u00a350m to \u00a3100m value band recorded a 153 per cent increase year-on-year, totalling \u00a3806m<\/li>\n<li>The \u00a320m to \u00a350m faced a 43 per cent decline year-on-year, totalling \u00a3253m<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Regional<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Project starts performance was mixed and most regions faced a decline in detailed planning approvals<\/li>\n<li>London, Wales, Yorkshire &amp; the Humber, the North East and Northern Ireland experienced strong growth in project starts<\/li>\n<li>Detailed planning approvals grew in the East of England, the South West, the North West, Scotland and the North East<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>London had the highest share (70 per cent) of project starts during the period, thanks to a 48 per cent increase, boosted by the \u00a3500m Project Vista development in Lambeth in January. Totalling \u00a3101m, starts in Wales jumped more than 24 times on a year ago, driven by the \u00a388m Microsoft Imperial Park data centre in Newport. The South East, on the other hand, fell ten per cent to total \u00a3253m.<\/p>\n<p>The East of England led detailed planning approvals having doubled year-on-year to total \u00a3513m. The South West also jumped 406 per cent against 2025 to total \u00a3492m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Offices overview 28 per cent increase in project starts year-on-year 41 per cent decrease in main contract awards from last year 32 per cent decrease in detailed planning approvals compared to 2023 The first quarter of 2025 was strong for office starts, with the sector having grown both year-on-year and quarter-on-quarter. 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