Spon's Price Books
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Now in its 28th edition, Spon's External Works and Landscape Price Book 2009 offers the only comprehensive source of information for detailed external works and landscape costs. This year, for the first time, the download includes a versatile and powerful ebook.
This edition includes the following new and heavily revised Measured Works items:
New Aco drainage ranges
Fin drains
Concrete pumping and crushing costs
Rainwater harvesting tanks
Containerised tree planting
Specialised mortars
Park signage
Site clearance, notably clearance of planting material and demolition of structures
Repair and conservation of historic railings
...and, under Preliminaries, costs of tender preparation and specialised surveys.
Spon's A & B Price Book is the most detailed, professionally relevant source of construction price information currently available for the UK. With competition growing fiercer throughout the industry and with recent pressure on materials due to rising commodity prices, the A & B's unique Tender Index and checks against tenders are 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 GBP3,300,000 in value.
Buyers of this 2008 edition can make a FREE internet download of Spon's Architects' and Builders' price data, which will run to the end of 2008 and:
- Access Spon's new Approximate Estimates rate data, as well as the Measured Works data
- Produce estimate and tender documents
- Generate priced or unpriced schedules
- Adjust rates and data and enter rogue items
- Export schedules into Excel
- View the complete book `on screen'
- Carry out an index search
Three major changes have been made to this 133rd edition:
1. All sections have re-arranged to place more emphasis on the Approximate Estimates section
2. A new section deals with Sustainability, including indicative costs
3. A list of useful web-sites of comparative prices is given at the end of Tables and Memoranda.
As well as updating of all prices, this 133rd edition includes the following additional Measured Works items:
- Additional high quality balustrades
- PVC wall linings
- Rainscreen cladding
- Resin-bonded gravel
- SAS suspended ceilings
- Self-levelling screeds
- `Speedfit' pipes and fittings
- Tapered insulation boards
- Waterproofing membranes
- Window refurbishment
together with a further expansion of the Approximate Estimates section.
...plus all the standard features you have come to expect from Spon's A & B:
- 20 000 prices for the most frequently specified items, the majority with labour constant details
- Almost 600 pages of Major and Minor Works items
- Hundreds of alternative materials prices, easily substituted into the build-up calculations, for the more unusual items
- 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 four months - see enclosed card to register. Updates are available online at www.pricebooks.co.uk
In today's economic turmoil most materials costs are still rising but tender prices are falling sharply. So looking at price lists is not enough - you need Spon's Architects' and Builders' Price Book 2010 to find out what contractors are actually charging and to get for real price data.
Compiled by Davis Langdon, Spon's Architects' and Builders' Price Book provides the most accurate, detailed and professionally relevant construction price information currently available for the UK. Its unique Tender Index, updated through the year, provides an ongoing reality check and adjustment for changing market conditions. This is the only price book which sets out a detailed cost base for Major Works contracts exceeding GBP3,500,000 in value.
Major changes have been made to this 135th edition:
Overheads and profits have been revised sharply downwards to 2.5% in line with actual levels. Preliminaries have also been dropped to 13%, on a lower cost base. And labour rates have been adjusted to reflect today's economic conditions.
As well as updating all prices, Spon's Architects' and Builders' Price Book 2010 includes about 150 new Measured Works items, including:
Additional ACO drainage systems such as Qmax - a large capacity drainage channel and Kerbdrain made from recycled and recyclable material
An overhauled Kalzip roofing section
Plus, over 900 key Approximate Estimate items with high & low rate ranges
And 13 elemental building cost models
Buyers of this 2010 edition can make a free internet download of Spon's Architects' and Builders' price data, which will run to the end of 2010 and:
- Access Spon's new Approximate Estimates rate data, as well as the Measured Works data
- Produce estimate and tender documents
- Generate priced or unpriced schedules
- Adjust rates and data and enter rogue items
- Export schedules into Excel
- Carry out an index search
This year, for the first time, the download includes a versatile and powerful ebook.
...plus all the standard features you have come to expect from Spon's Architects' and Builders' Price Book:
- 20,000 prices for the most frequently specified items, the majority with labour constants and detailed build-ups
- 600 pages of Major and Minor Works items
- Hundreds of alternative materials prices, easily substituted into the build-up calculations, for the more unusual items
- 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 four months - see insider for registration details. Updates are available online at www.pricebooks.co.uk
Spon's Civil Engineering and Highway Works Price Book 2010
by Davis Langdon
Materials prices are still rising for most products, subcontract prices are volatile, tender prices falling... What's happening in detail and where are things heading in this demanding market?
Spon's Civil Engineering and Highway Works Price Book 2010 is more than just a price book. It provides a comprehensive work manual that many in the civil engineering, surveying and construction business will find it hard to work without. It gives costs for both general and civil engineering works and highway works, and shows a full breakdown of labour, plant and material elements, with labour rates updated in line with the latest CIJC wage agreement.
This 24th edition, in its easy to read format, incorporates a comprehensive review throughout
- Assumptions on overheads and profits have been revised downwards
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- Preliminaries have been cut, on a lower cost base
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- Labour rates have been adjusted to reflect today's economic climate
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- Tunnelling rates are too volatile this year and have been removed from this edition
Structured to comply with CESMM3 and MMHW, the book includes prices and rates covering everything from ladders to lighting systems and canal dredging to cycle stands. In a time when it is essential to gain 'competitive advantage' in an increasingly congested market, this price book provides instant-access cost information and is a one-stop reference containing tables, formulae, technical information and professional advice.
Buyers of this 2010 edition can make a free internet download of Spon's Civil Engineering and Highway Works price data, which will run to the end of 2010 and:
- produce estimate and tender documents
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- generate priced or unpriced schedules
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- adjust rates and data and enter rogue items
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- export schedules into Excel
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- carry out an index search
This year, for the first time, the download includes a versatile and powerful ebook.
Plus the standard features you have come to expect from Spon's Civil Engineering and Highway Works Price Book:
- For budgeting: estimating principles, on-cost advice, method-related charges
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- For resource costings: labour costs, plant costs, material prices
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- For rapid cost information: approximate estimates, dayworks, cost indices
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- For plant and labour allowances: production rates, outputs, man hour constants
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- For detailed pricing: unit costs with full breakdown, or specialist prices, with advice on item coverage, waste allowances and comparative costs
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- For incidental advice: tables and formulae, technical information, professional advice
- Updated, free of charge, every four months - see enclosed card to register. Updates are available online at www.pricebooks.co.uk
SPON'S ARCHITECTS' AND BUILDERS' PRICE BOOK provides the most detailed, professionally relevant construction price information currently available for the UK. This year, for the first time, the download includes a versatile and powerful ebook.
1. The Preliminaries section has been re-written and based upon the 2005 JCT contract
2. The new section on Sustainability has been re-written and considerably expanded
As well as updating all prices, this 134th edition includes the following additional Measured Works items:
New, more economical, lower nickel, stainless steel rebars
Schuco curtain walling
Brises soleil
"Ecologic" roofing tiles
Velfac 200 windows
Triple glazing
Along with...
Additional items of rainscreen cladding
Additional damp proof courses
Further steel lintels
Revisions to Patent Glazing items
An expansion of radiators and manhole covers
Spon's Civil Engineering and Highway Works Price Book 2008
by Davis Langdon
Spon's Civil Engineering and Highway Works Price Book 2008 is more than just a price book. It provides a comprehensive work manual that many in the civil engineering, surveying and construction business will find it hard to work without. It gives costs for both general and civil engineering works and highway works, and shows a full breakdown of labour, plant and material elements, with labour rates updated in line with the latest CIJC wage agreement.
Thoroughly comprehensive and structured to comply with CESMM3 and MMHW, the book includes prices and rates covering everything from highways to handrails, from manholes to mines. In a time when it is essential to gain 'competitive advantage' in an increasingly congested market, this price book provides instant-access cost information and is a one-stop reference containing tables, formulae, technical information and professional advice.
This 22nd edition, in its easy-to-read format, incorporates a general review throughout - notably with the restructuring of the highway works unit costs section to align with the latest revisions to the Manual of Contract Documents for Highway Works.
Plus the standard features you have come to expect from Spon's Civil Engineering and Highway Works Price Book:
- For budgeting: estimating principles, on-cost advice, method-related charges
-
- For resource costings: labour costs, plant costs, material prices
-
- For rapid cost information: approximate estimates, dayworks, cost indices
-
- For plant and labour allowances: production rates, outputs, man hour constants
-
- For detailed pricing: unit costs with full breakdown, or specialist prices, with advice on item coverage, waste allowances and comparative costs
-
- For incidental advice: tables and formulae, technical information, professional advice
- Updated, free of charge, every four months - see enclosed card to register. Updates are available online at www.pricebooks.co.uk
Buyers of this 2008 edition can make a FREE internet download of Spon's Civil Engineering and Highway Works price data, which will run to the end of 2008 and:
- produce estimate and tender documents
-
- generate priced or unpriced schedules
-
- adjust rates and data and enter rogue items
-
- export schedules into Excel
-
- view complete book `on screen'
-
- carry out an index search
Other titles in the Spon's Price Book Series
Spon's External Works and Landscape Price Book 2008
Spon's Architects' and Builders' Price Book 2008
Spon's Mechanical and Electrical Services Price Book 2008