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Middle East conflict has helped increase prices by over 5% CLC’s materials group warns

By 2026-04-29T12:22:00

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Group says contractors finding it difficult to justify price rises to clients ‘because of lack of detailed explanation’ accompanying increases

The war in the Middle East has helped add an extra 5% to the cost of materials, the Construction Leadership Council’s material supply chain group has said.

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