Spon's Price Books
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Spon's Construction Resource Handbook is unique in presenting labour and plant constants for a full range of construction activities including building, civil engineering, landscaping and mechanical and electrical work. Further valuable information is included on a comprehensive range of construction materials. Typical elemental breakdowns for 26 different types of building are included together with a wealth of general information ranging from the weights of building materials to the square metre coverage of different types of paint.
With its clear and easy-to-follow format, engineers, quantity surveyors, architects, estimators and other construction industry professionals engaged in the preparation and negotiation of rates covering thousands of items of construction work can use it as a reference in a number of ways - for the preparation of rates for construction work at the budget estimating, tendering and final account stages of construction projects. It is particularly useful in the evaluation of new rates where variations have caused the creation of new items not covered in the original contract documentation.
This book provides a thorough understanding of the general principles of measurement for taking off quantities. An essential guide to any quantity surveyor, architect or engineer. Taking off quantities: Civil Engineering demonstrates, through a series of detailed worked examples from a range of civil engineering projects, how the measurement techniques are actually used.
