Education Construction Market Report - UK 2007

Abstract

AMA Research has recently published the 2nd Edition of its overview of Education Contracting Market in the UK, focusing on key market trends, structure and change within the primary, secondary and higher education sectors, major education contractors and procurement issues. This report continues a series of shorter ‘Insight’ on key areas within public sector construction. Other completed reports include higher education sector and student accommodation market, an analysis of the Building Schools for the Future Initiative and the Procure21 and NHS LIFT forms of procurement in healthcare construction. -

Key Areas Covered:-

• An overall review of the state education system in the UK.
• Procurement of work by contractors, including consortia formed to bid for education work.
• An analysis of PFI and the Building Schools for the Future and Academies Programmes.
• Analysis of public sector funding for education facilities in both schools and universities.
• Detailed analysis of capital investment in the education system, an update of construction progress and an assessment of contractor' s output of work in the education market.

Areas of particular interest include:-

• The Government is providing an unprecedented level of capital investment in both primary and secondary schools and the school building capital programme has increased more than 7 times since 1996-07.
• Reviews the progress of the PFI and Building Schools for the Future and Academies Programmes and provides a detailed analysis of schemes under waves 1-6 of BSF, together with projected investment in the Programme, bidding consortia and anticipated timescales for completion.
• Review of the structure of and reform in the higher education sector, including the impact of rising student numbers on university infrastructure developments.
• Analysis of the increasing use of university endowments to fund capital programmes.
• An in-depth analysis of the growing market for student accommodation.
• Education expenditure beyond April 2008 will be set within the framework of the next 2007 Comprehensive Spending Review, which is expected to see investment in the education sector slow to 2.5% per year.
• Key drivers and future prospects for the education contracting market.

Key areas of coverage in the report include:-

STATE OF THE EDUCATION MARKET IN THE UK

• Structure of the state education system in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland including types of schools in operation.
• Structure and Responsibilities of Local Education Authorities.
• State education spending in the UK, including total education spending and DfES budgets.
• Analysis of DfES expenditure by function including spending on schools, young people, further education, skills, lifelong learning and higher education.

THE HIGHER EDUCATION SECTOR IN THE UK

• Structure and size of the higher education sector in the UK.
• Impact of new universities on infrastructure developments within the sector.
• Key sector drivers including rising student numbers and the impact of tuition fees.
• Sources of higher education funding and allocations by the major funding councils in England, Scotland and Wales.
• Funding for science and research in higher education institutions.
• University endowment funds.

CONTRACTORS OUTPUT IN THE EDUCATION SECTOR

• Value of construction new work output.
• Construction output by sector in 2006.
• Construction output in 2007 and Beyond.
• Analysis of contractors output in the public education sector.
• Outlook for education construction work. Capital expenditure in the schools sector and types of capital funding.
• Education Work Output - Government Targets & Progress to Date.
• PFI in the education sector including an in-depth analysis of the Building Schools for the Future and Academies Programmes.
• Capital expenditure in the higher education sector and university capital building programmes.
• Analysis of developments in the student accommodation sector.

CONTRACTOR PROFILES

• Structure and size of the contracting industry.
• Key construction companies and contractors.
• Private sector consortia in education.
• Contractor profiles - key contractors operating in the education market.