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VALUE OF BUILDING WORK DONE

JUNE KEY FIGURES, Western Australia
		Jun qtr 2010	Mar qtr 2010 to Jun qtr 2010	Jun qtr 2009 to Jun qtr 2010
Seasonally adjusted		$m	% change	% change
Value of work done(a)
	New residential building	1 550.9	6.9	2.0
	Alterations and additions to residential building	177.2	-6.5	24.9
	Non-residential building	1 360.4	10.1	31.5
	Total value of work done	3 088.5	7.4	14.5
(a) Chain volume measures, reference year 2007-08.
Source: Building Activity, Australia (cat. no. 8752.0).

• The seasonally adjusted value of building work done in the June quarter 2010 was estimated to be approximately $3.1 billion, an increase of 7.4% from the previous quarter and nearly 15% higher than for the same quarter of the previous year.
• The value of non-residential building has recorded strong growth over the past three quarters and was again the greatest contributor to the June quarter increase (up 10% to almost $1.3 billion).
• The value of new residential building reversed falls over the past year with a 6.9% increase in the June quarter 2010, its largest quarterly increase for more than six years.

• The value of non-residential building has more than doubled in the last five years in seasonally adjusted terms, despite the global economic downturn. This was initially reflected in a steep fall in non-residential building followed by a rapid recovery from late 2009.
• In contrast, the quarterly value of residential building work has increased at at a much slower rate over the same period, with growth remaining fairly flat since late 2008.