Building Material Cost Index increases in Aug
Published on: Thursday, September 13, 2018
Kuala Lumpur: The Building Material Cost Index (BCI) (without steel bars) for all building categories in all regions for all building categories increased in August 2018 compared with July 2018.However, in a statement Wednesday, the Department of Statistics (DoS) said the BCI (with steel bars) in all regions showed increases for almost all categories of building except for several categories of buildings in region C-Central (Wilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur, Melaka, Negeri Sembilan and Selangor) and E-Pahang which showed a 0.1 per cent decrease as compared to the previous month.In Sabah, DoS said the BCI (without steel bars) for almost all categories of building in August 2018 also increased as compared with the previous month.
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