Spon's A & B Price Book is the most detailed, professionally relevant source of construction price information currently available anywhere. With competition growing fiercer throughout the industry and with increasing pressure to obtain a 'competitive advantage', the A & B's unique Tender Index is more valuable than ever before. This is the only price book that gives a detailed cost base in a way that allows adjustment for market conditions that affect building prices for major works contracts exceeding u2,500,000 in value. - As well as a complete revision of all items, this 130th edition includes additional items for: - Acrylic eggshell quick-drying paints - Insulation boards, batts and quilts - Cold rolled purlins and cladding rails - Gyproc partitions and SoundBloc - Compressible board substructure formwork - Kingspan insulated wall and roof panels - Sarnafil single layer roof coverings - Thermabate cavity closers - Wall and head restraints Plus all the standard features you have come to expect from Spon's A & B: - Unique Davis Langdon Tender Index that allows the reader to make adjustments for market conditions throughout the year using Spon's free updates.; - 20 000 prices for the most frequently specified items, the majority with labour constant details. - Over 350 pages of Major Works items. - Over 300 additional pages of prices for minor works contracts -- of 0,000 in value - Hundreds of alternative materials prices, easily substituted into the build-up calculations, for the more unusual items. - Approximate Estimating section providing element unit rates specifically for hotels, residential, industrial, retail, leisure and office buildings, and costs per m2 for 140 building types. - Detailed guidance on wage rates, daywork, cost limits and allowances, property insurance and professional fees, plus useful formulae, design criteria and trade association addresses. - Updated, free of charge, every three months - see enclosed card to register. Updates are available online at www pricebooks.co.
- ISBN10 1280413913
- ISBN13 9781280413919
- Publish Date 26 August 2004
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 16 January 2013
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Taylor & Francis Group
- Format eBook
- Language English