Orders Pour In Despite Slowdown

Orders are flooding in at Bristol building firms despite fears ofa slowdown in the South West construction industry.

Both Bishopsworth firm Cowlin Construction and Stoke Gifford firmCH Pearce Construction have in recent weeks taken on orders worthmillions of pounds for projects across the region.

Orders are coming from developers of commercial buildings,housebuilders and from the public sector.

The news comes in the wake of recent research from the RoyalInstitution of Chartered Surveyors which found work on building forbusinesses had slackened off.

But it found that work was now being done for the public sectorinstead, as a result of increased spending …