Energy costs to push prices up, Arcadis warns

By Jordan Marshall2021-12-06T06:00:00

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Consultant says firms can expect cost of bricks, glass and cement to continue heading north

Increasing energy costs will bring a second wave of construction materials price hikes, Arcadis has said.

It warned this will have a much wider impact on prices than raw materials shortages, saying that the cost of producing products such as bricks, glass, cement and concrete made them particularly vulnerable to hikes.

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