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Tuesday, 02, Dec 2008 05:36


The Construction Products Association acts as a single, influential voice for the manufacturers and suppliers of construction products.

The Association's aim is to build a growing, profitable and sustainable future for the construction products industry. In order to achieve these aims, the Association is focusing its activities in four specific areas:

1) Investment in the built environment

2) Developing a positive regulatory and fiscal framework

3) Improving industry performance

4) Delivering sustainable construction

The construction products industry is at the heart of the UK economy, providing essential materials for our homes, schools, hospitals, factories, offices, roads and railways.

Every year the industry:

  • has an output of £40 billion

  • exports 10% of output

    Accounts for:

  • 40% of total construction output

  • 20% of the UK's manufacturing output

  • 4% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP)

    And employs:

  • over 650,000 people in almost 30,000 companies

    • Latest Press Releases

    CPA: Construction industry slowdown set to continue

    Slowdown in construction has continued throughout the first quarter of 2008 according to the latest joint Trade Survey Report from the Construction Products Association and the Construction Confederation.

    CPA: Strategic forum reports on progress in meeting Egan targets

    The Strategic Forum for Construction has finalised its Review of the targets for industry improvement that were set in the report Accelerating Change, prepared in 2002 under the chairmanship of Sir John Egan.

    CPA: Strategic forum for construction tower crane group makes further progress on achieving objectives

    The third SFfC Tower Crane meeting took place on the 21st of April 2008, to review and discuss progress on achieving the group’s action plan and to make a real difference to the health and safety practices within the tower crane sector:

    New Construction Products Association chairman focuses on industry competitiveness

    Adrian Barden, the newly elected Chairman of the Construction Products Association, has today told an audience of industry leaders, politicians and government officials that industry in the UK must remain competitive across the world to stop jobs moving to countries with lower environmental standards.