DOSM: BCI without steel bars in Malaysia increases 0.3-24.2% in July

KUALA LUMPUR: The Building Materials Cost Index (BCI), without steel bars and with steel bars, for all building categories in Malaysia, increased between 0.3 and 24.4 per cent in July 2022 compared to a year ago, said the Department of Statistics Malaysia (DOSM).

The department said that for the same period, the increase in BCI for Peninsular Malaysia was between 5.5 and 18.8 per cent, Sabah between 0.3 and 15.5 per cent and Sarawak between 5.6 and 24.4 per cent.