Education Construction Seeing a Downward Spiral

Education Construction is seeing a downward spiral, but what do we mean by that? Put simply, construction within the education sector isn’t reaching the output it has been in the past, in some circumstances it isn’t even reaching the detailed planning stage.

Statistically speaking Education Construction output decreased by  8% in 2018, following growth of 46% between 2013 and 2017. Now that the harsh political climate of 2019 has come to an end and the B(rexit) word is just around the corner. Will we see the output increase? Knowing that the Department for Education is the single largest client for education construction works, what will the new government have installed and how will this help the education construction sector?

And, so now, we wait. We wait to see if the calmer political climate does in fact improve the output in number of education construction projects. Whether this will improve even the projects getting through to the planning stages and whether the Free School Programme is able to catch up on its own schedule through 2020.