Spon's Architects' and Builders' Price Book 2008

Spons 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 £3,000,000 in value.Significant changes have been made to this 133rd edition, notably with the development of the Cost Models and the enhanced Approximate Estimates (composite items) section. ...plus all the standard features you have come to expect from Spons 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 With its FREE CD-ROM containing SPONS ARCHITECTS AND BUILDERS price data, you can: Now access Spons 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 Cut and paste prices into other tender documents View complete book 'on screen Carry out an index searchLangdon, David is the author of 'Spon's Architects' and Builders' Price Book 2008', published 2007 under ISBN 9780415424486 and ISBN 0415424488.