Diesel as a share of the cost of New Zealand heavy and civil construction, 2020

What it is. 1.7% of the total inputs of the heavy and civil construction industry: direct purchases of diesel.

Sample. Statistics New Zealand's 2020 input-output tables for the heavy and civil construction industry, as tabulated by Te Waihanga. Diesel is one of five materials the source names as most important by value.

What it is not. Context only: how large diesel is in the industry's cost structure, not a fuel overrun or a loss: the source does not compare fuel used with fuel priced. Direct purchases only; the source notes services inputs such as aggregate delivery also burn diesel, so the exposure is larger than 1.7% but the paper does not say by how much. One year, whole industry, not a single contract.

Where it came from

• New Zealand Infrastructure Commission / Te Waihanga (2023), Why do construction input costs change? The role of global and local factors · free copy
  Table 2, p.11 · source record

Considered and set aside

• New Zealand Infrastructure Commission / Te Waihanga: Estimates that a 1% rise in world commodity prices lifts New Zealand diesel prices by about 0.6% (p.17); it gives no diesel share of cost and no fuel use against estimate.

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