Building and dwelling production 2015, March Cubic volume covered by granted building permits grew by 4 per cent in the first quarter of 2015 In the first quarter of 2015, building permits were granted for a total of 6.8 million cubic metres, which is 4 per cent more than one year earlier. At the same time, 5 per cent more building projects were started than last year and the constant-price volume of building production still remained 13 per cent lower than one year ago. This is based on the estimated statistics on building and dwelling production, in the compilation of which the data have been corrected by statistical methods based on the data for the previous year. Building permits granted and building starts, mil. m3, moving annual total The beginning of the current year already seems more promising than previous years. Eleven per cent more building projects were started during January to March than in the corresponding period of the year before. At the same time, the constant-price value or the volume of ongoing building production still decreased by 11 per cent from one year back. Quoting is encouraged provided Statistics Finland is acknowledged as the source.Helsinki 19.5.2015 Construction 2015 Volume index of newbuilding 2010=100, trend Number of granted building permits was 16 per cent lower in 2014 than one year before During 2014, building permits were granted for a total of 30 million cubic metres. Their number fell by 15.5 per cent from the previous year. The cubic volume covered by permits granted for residential buildings remained on level with the previous year, down by just 1.6 per cent, and the cubic volume covered by permits granted for other than residential buildings went down by 21.1 per cent from one year ago. Production interruption of the statistics on building and dwelling production continues The now published information is based on data supplemented by statistical methods. The deficient data were estimated with data on building grants in the year before. Due to the estimation, not all data were available with the most detailed purpose of use and regional divisions. The data now available will be supplemented over coming months and the data in the statistics may still become revised. The figure below shows the shares of granted building permits received and imputed by Statistics Finland from October to March by month. The imputation rate in the complete data is around 20 per cent for the period mentioned. Share of imputed building permits (capacity) 2 Statistics Finland has been unable to restart the production of the statistics on building and dwelling production yet because the Population Register Centre has not been able to deliver sufficiently extensive building register data to Statistics Finland used as the data source of the statistics. The production interruption of the statistics on building and dwelling production that began in January continues for the time being, but we will return to the normal monthly release schedule once the data deliveries and systems are working. 3 Contents Tables Appendix tables Appendix table 1. Building permits, 1000 m3.............................................................................................................5 Appendix table 2. Buildings starts, 1000 m3...............................................................................................................5 Appendix table 3. Building completions, 1000 m3.....................................................................................................6 Appendix table 4. Dwelling construction by building type, number, building permits and building starts................6 Appendix table 5. Volume index of newbuilding 2010=100.......................................................................................7 4 Appendix tables Appendix table 1. Building permits, 1000 m3 Agricultural buildings Industrial and warehouse buildings Public service buildings Commercial and office buildings Free-time residential buildings Residential buildings All buildings 140233124444394921 65901/2014 96289147206396231 60002/2014 236421186673631 3613 27003/2014 319995228461871 1763 61704/2014 350642196435791 0463 38605/2014 2769523944011051 0923 71206/2014 14831658111514751 42607/2014 19033076349527212 02208/2014 246529255151609722 65309/2014 219586360264606152 76210/2014 28338386116616551 78011/2014 240533143278367302 12912/2014 161226132304284651 43501/2015 15960393224335051 78102/2015 1061 338404269551 1013 57803/2015 Appendix table 2. Buildings starts, 1000 m3 Agricultural buildings Industrial and warehouse buildings Public service buildings Commercial and office buildings Free-time residential buildings Residential buildings All buildings 187343146371774792 00601/2014 329560432243415692 35702/2014 395421184183608242 33303/2014 52648069283811 2523 15304/2014 5488431721521091 1943 79105/2014 4109272755551061 2404 09606/2014 337563167378897952 73907/2014 356817207362758893 12008/2014 284457309377841 0673 06209/2014 213611203550689333 04710/2014 232230171182435341 91811/2014 12138975273364311 52112/2014 180671129379435752 23101/2015 19729198228345891 69202/2015 284608186763529113 13603/2015 5 Appendix table 3. Building completions, 1000 m3 Agricultural buildings Industrial and warehouse buildings Public service buildings Commercial and office buildings Free-time residential buildings Residential buildings All buildings 384409186306568332 52101/2014 22280940233518182 36602/2014 213472156276418502 26603/2014 230593191315688092 40704/2014 213455253253931 0052 61305/2014 3706802352792601 6284 18806/2014 93520409109674271 77507/2014 206312298269599812 37008/2014 263347228299757312 29709/2014 406423216918798953 28310/2014 664575172283519822 90711/2014 286620239208511 3433 14012/2014 24347425388237962 16701/2015 4454425368253631 85602/2015 202209100238263892 12603/2015 Appendix table 4. Dwelling construction by building type, number, building permits and building starts Building startsBuilding permits Blocks of flats Attached houses Detached houses Dwellings totalBlocks of flats Attached houses Detached houses Dwellings total 7431883051 3359041032911 38901/2014 1 0421672761 6621 1552433951 81002/2014 1 5652114572 4122 9012946494 03803/2014 2 0813158393 3091 6793879053 09304/2014 1 7634999133 3591 6364477663 29405/2014 1 9003978283 2651 2854439432 73806/2014 9563237082 0476701193651 19507/2014 1 5613016232 5191 2483795152 23708/2014 1 4654806972 7282 1933394673 23309/2014 1 7322585842 6509651824971 88110/2014 8241743911 6331 4591603832 00511/2014 8041902621 3031 6391863092 18312/2014 1 2071902781 7151 245882111 55001/2015 1 5651852062 0421 0321162791 43102/2015 1 9451634042 7892 3561975033 07503/2015 6 Appendix table 5. Volume index of newbuilding 2010=100 Agricultural buildings Industrial and warehouse buildings Public service buildings Commercial and office buildings Free-time residential buildings Residential buildings All buildings 120,399,791,083,566,277,485,901/2014 105,896,496,277,263,570,080,302/2014 100,290,398,977,058,264,475,903/2014 95,089,194,974,862,062,975,204/2014 98,491,292,570,177,565,678,305/2014 104,190,394,168,990,873,083,706/2014 114,093,894,672,094,879,488,107/2014 124,994,894,071,487,286,490,808/2014 134,097,394,172,483,089,092,509/2014 129,1100,892,371,180,186,890,910/2014 121,197,388,769,667,581,985,511/2014 109,092,687,870,956,875,179,512/2014 93,791,384,570,446,669,574,801/2015 80,587,283,865,840,662,269,202/2015 78,584,887,568,638,656,866,803/2015 7 Construction 2015 Inquiries 029 551 3538Mira Kuussaari 029 551 2458Merja Järvinen 029 551 2481Heli Suonio Director in charge: Hannele Orjala rakennus.suhdanne@stat.fi www.stat.fi Source: Building and dwelling production, Statistics Finland ISSN 1796-0479Communication and Information Services, Statistics Finland = Official Statistics of Finland tel. +358 29 551 2220 www.stat.fi ISSN 1798–9590 (pdf) Publication orders, Edita Publishing Oy tel. +358 20 450 05 www.editapublishing.fi