Spon's Architects' and Builders' Price Book 2005; Free CDROM (Spon's Price Books)
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Book Description
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 £2,500,000 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 thestandard 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 £100,000 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 enclosedcard to register. Updates are available online at www.pricebooks.co.uk
With its free CD-ROM containing Spon's Architects' and Builders' price data you can:
- 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
- export to other major packages
- view complete book "on screen"
- carry out an index search
Spon's Architects' and Builders' Price Book 2005; Free CDROM (Spon's Price Books),DAVIS LANDGON,Spon Press,0415348382,Architecture,Professional Practice,Reference,Building construction & materials
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