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Construction cost inflation is at its highest level for decades. Global supply chains have been tested to the max as coronavirus and the war in Ukraine disrupted materials supply and raised energy costs, at a time when UK trade policy was in the midst of significant change. It’s been a perfect inflationary storm and prices of some materials have soared. AECOM’s overall building cost index has reached record highs. Demand is currently holding up but project viability is coming under increasing pressure and headwinds are strengthening. SPON’S ARCHITECTS’ AND BUILDERS’ PRICE BOOK 2023, compiled by AECOM, still provides the most accurate, detailed and professionally relevant construction price information for the UK. Its unique Tender Index, updated through the year (2015 = 100), gives an ongoing reality check and allows you to adjust for changing market conditions. Although it suits a wide range of project sizes, this is the only price book which sets out a detailed cost base for contracts exceeding £4,000,000 in value. Use the access code inside the front cover of the book to get set up with an ebook of this 2023 edition on the VitalSource® Bookshelf platform, available for access and use until the end of December 2023. As well as the most wide-ranging market testing exercise since the war elevated inflationary pressure, the following new items have been added: An update on the exceptional market conditions currently faced A discussion about recent changes to building regulations for non-domestic buildings Along with 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 Hundreds of alternative materials prices 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 Updates free of charge – see inside for registration details. Updates are available online at www.pricebooks.co.uk
"An essential reference for everybody concerned with the calculation of costs of mechanical and electrical works." - Cost EngineerMarket conditions remain unfavourable and construction output and orders obtained by contractors continue to decline. The costs of some items have increased, but profits and overheads have fallen and are expected to fall
Spon's Architects' and Builders' Price Book 2004 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 and B's unique tender index will be more valuable than ever before. This is the only price book that publishes details of its cost base in such a way that it can be adjusted to allow for market conditions that affect building prices. A separate minor works section on coloured paper covers contracts of around £65,000 in value. The A and B comes with a 'free' CDROM that enables the reader to view the entire book on screen, cut and paste prices into other tender documents, export to other major packages, perform simple calculations, index search, produce estimate and tender documents and adjust rates and data. This complete package now means that Spon's Architects' and Builders' Price Book 2004 is now better than ever and is a resource that no building firm, surveyor or architect should be without. New features in this 129th edition include: an easier-to-read format; information on, and incorporating, the new CICJ three year wage agreement, effective from Monday, 30th June 2003. It also includes additional items for: hot and cold water piping systems; additional building boards and external wall cladding; further aluminium systems curtain walling; western red cedar external wall cladding; fire retardant steel beams; metal and glazed balustrading; sarnafil roofing and acoustic sliding partitions.
Strong output demand over the last year has stretched the industry. The issues are being felt by all firms across the delivery chain – from clients to subcontractors. Capacity constraints almost always manifest themselves in prices. Increased tender prices have become the primary symptom of these supply-side issues. The main driver of new work output growth over the last 18 months is slowing. Both the public and private housing sectors are quickly reversing all of their recent upward trends when looked at on a yearly growth basis. The counterpoint to this is that the yearly growth figures are still positive, meaning that new work continues to flow. SPON’S ARCHITECTS’ AND BUILDERS’ PRICE BOOK 2016, compiled by AECOM, still provides the most accurate, detailed and professionally relevant construction price information for the UK. Its unique Tender Index, updated through the year, gives an ongoing reality check and allows you to adjust for changing market conditions. Although it suits a wide range of project sizes, this is the only price book which sets out a detailed cost base for contracts exceeding £3,500,000 in value. Use the access code inside the front cover of the book to get set up with internet access to this 2016 edition until the end of December 2016. We now provide SPON’S Online, a versatile and powerful online data viewing package -- online or offline on your PC/Mac, smartphone or tablet. You can browse and search the content across all the price books you own, make notes and highlights and share these notes with other users. Major changes have been made to this 141st edition: For the first time, plant prices have been separated out in the measured works section. As well as an overhaul of prices, several new items have been added, including: Two new cost models for a stand-alone private patient ward within a larger hospital complex, and an extra care home An expanded range of ACO drainage channels Precast concrete ‘Perfect Manholes’ by CPM Shower-wall laminated panelling walling An expanded range of architectural pre-finished blockwork ... along with 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. Hundreds of alternative materials prices 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, two or three times a year – see inside for registration details. Updates are available online at www.pricebooks.co.uk Other titles in the Spon’s Price Book Series: SPON’S MECHANICAL AND ELECTRICAL SERVICES PRICE BOOK 2016 SPON’S CIVIL ENGINEERING AND HIGHWAY WORKS PRICE BOOK 2016 SPON’S EXTERNAL WORKS AND LANDSCAPE PRICE BOOK 2016
Coming out of recession... so how is this affecting the construction market? Spon's Mechanical and Electrical Services Price Book 2015 continues to be the most comprehensive and best annual services engineering price book currently available, providing detailed pricing information across the full range of mechanical and electrical services, together with higher-level costs for a diverse range of systems and different building applications. Use the access code inside the front cover of the book to get set up with internet access to this 2015 edition until the end of December 2015. Spon’s Online delivers a versatile and powerful online data viewing package. The book now uses a combination of NRM1 and NRM2 as the measurement standards. This year we provide a new detailed engineering feature on RICS Ska ratings, and add cost sections for LED lighting, PV panels and solar thermal energy. The book also gives the usual market update of labour rates and daywork rates, material costs and prices for measured works, and all-in-rates and elemental rates in the Approximate Estimating section.
This year’s special focus is on water related issues. Now in its 32nd edition, SPON'S EXTERNAL WORKS AND LANDSCAPE PRICE BOOK 2013 offers the only comprehensive source of information for detailed external works and landscape costs. It covers all the items to be found in hard and soft landscape contracts, and forms an indispensable reference book for quantity surveyors, landscape architects, contractors and local authority managers – essential for compiling estimates, specifications, bills of quantities and works schedules – and no matter what the size of the project being undertaken. Use the access code inside the back cover of the book to get set up with internet access to this 2013 edition until the end of December 2013. We now provide Spon’s Online, a versatile and powerful online data viewing package, which replaces the estimating software and ebook of recent years and which is no longer supplied with the hard copy book. This edition includes the following new and significantly developed items Rainwater harvesting tanks – tank-prices and options Cellweb – load support systems and erosion control Outdoor rooms – various design options of home-offices and garden studios Green roofs – updated systems of green roof treatments and installations Permeable pavings – permeable macadams, bricks and more on standard pavings This year’s book delivers more approximate estimate composite costs items than in recent years, and the measured works have been integrated and developed accordingly. All the standard features that you expect from SPON'S EXTERNAL WORKS AND LANDSCAPE PRICE BOOK remain: material and measured work prices covering contract items from preliminaries and site clearance and encompassing the core external works activities with full breakdowns into labour, materials and other components detailed guidance on wage rates, landscape consultants’ fee scales an extensive Approximate Estimates section for rapid spot estimating Updated, free of charge, two or three times a year – see inside for registration details. Updates are available online at www.pricebooks.co.uk. Other titles in the SPON’S Price Book Series: SPON’S CIVIL ENGINEERING AND HIGHWAY WORKS PRICE BOOK 2013 SPON’S ARCHITECTS’ AND BUILDERS’ PRICE BOOK 2013 SPON’S MECHANICAL AND ELECTRICAL SERVICES PRICE BOOK 2013
SPON'S MECHANICAL AND ELECTRICAL SERVICES PRICE BOOK continues to be the most comprehensive and best annual services engineering price book currently available, providing detailed pricing information across the full range of mechanical and electrical services, together with higher-level costs for a diverse range of systems and different building applications. This year's book contains reworked information on energy, and additional engineering design details, plus more design schematics for M&E services. Overall, the market continues to be depressed, but the detailed picture is more complex. Margins are being squeezed heavily but steel and copper prices are robust and labour rates are driven by agreements. a All the standard features you have come to expect from SPON'S MECHANICAL AND ELECTRICAL SERVICES PRICE BOOK are also included, considered essential for today's services cost professional: detailed materials prices, labour constants, labour costs and measured work prices for mechanical and electrical works, from above ground drainage to automatic transfer switches, and circuit breakers to sprinkler systems an extensive Approximate Estimating section for quick, rule-of-thumb pricing of mechanical or electrical installations, together with elemental services costs for different types and standard of buildings full details of wage rates, daywork and cost indices on a national and Central London basis.an overhauled index and guidance notes Updated, free of charge, two or three times a year - see inside for registration details. Updates are available online at www.pricebooks.co.uk Buyers of this 2011 edition can make a free internet download of SPON'S MECHANICAL & ELECTRICAL SERVICES price data, which will run to the end of 2011 and: 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 resources include a versatile and powerful ebook.
Spon's Landscape and External Works Price Book 2004 offers the only comprehensive source of information for detailed external works and landscape costs. It covers all the items to be found in hard and soft landscape contracts and is therefore an indispensable reference book for quantity surveyors, landscape architects and contractors - essential for compiling estimates, specifications, bills of quantities and works schedules. A full index and list of manufacturers and suppliers gives easy reference to all items. The L and E comes with a 'free' CDROM that enables the reader to view the entire book on screen, cut and paste prices into other tender documents, export to other major packages, perform simple calculations, index search, produce estimate and tender documents, adjust rates and data. This complete package means that Spon's Landscape and External Works Price Book 2004 is now better than ever and is a resource that no building firm, surveyor or architect should be without. New features for the easier-to-read 2004 edition include: information on, and incorporating, the new CIJC three year age agreement, effective from Monday 30th June 2003; additional plant items to reflect the increased mechanisation of site handling of materials; new paving and kerb items; additional measured rate items for work in small gardens; non-rigid constructions, pumps and rocks associated with water features.
Spon's Mechanical and Electrical Services Price Book 2009 continues to be the most comprehensive and best annual services engineering price book currently available.Prices have been overhauled in line with buoyant market conditions. A new infrastructure section includes typical connection scenarios and costs. Extensive revisions have been made to t