Office work drives 0.4% uptick construction output

After a few bruising months, construction has jumped into pole position as the best performing sector of the economy.
Monthly construction output grew by 0.4% in volume terms in November after sliding 0.3% in the prior month.
The main contributors to the monthly increase were private commercial new work and non-housing repair and maintenance, which grew by 3.1% and 1.1%, respectively.
These sectors drove rises in both new work (0.3%) and repair and maintenance (0.5%).
But trend figures show cons