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In today’s economic turmoil, while materials costs are rising, tender prices are sharply falling. To navigate this landscape, Spon’s Architects and Builders Price Book 2010 is essential for accurate contractor pricing and real price data. Compiled by Davis Langdon, this book offers the most relevant construction price information for the UK, featuring a unique Tender Index that provides ongoing adjustments for market changes. It includes a detailed cost base for Major Works contracts exceeding £3,500,000. The 135th edition introduces significant revisions: overheads and profits have been reduced to 2.5%, preliminaries to 13%, and labor rates adjusted to reflect current economic conditions. All prices have been updated, and around 150 new Measured Works items have been added, including advanced drainage systems and an overhauled roofing section. Additionally, over 900 key Approximate Estimate items are included, along with 13 elemental building cost models. Buyers of this edition can access a free internet download of price data, valid through the end of 2010, which allows for the generation of estimate and tender documents, adjustments of rates, and exportation into Excel. This year’s download also features a versatile ebook, alongside 20,000 prices for frequently specified items, detailed guidance on wage rates, and regular updates every four months. For more information, updates are available online.

Prices this year are all over the place. But what’s happening in detail? Now in its 29 th edition, Spon's External Works and Landscape Price Book 2010 offers the only comprehensive source of information for detailed external works and landscape costs. All the items to be found in hard and soft landscape contracts are covered, forming 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. As well as a number of new approximate estimates items, this edition includes the following new Measured Works All the standard features that you expect from Spon’s External Works & Landscape Price Book Buyers of this 2010 edition can make a free internet download of Spon’s External Works & Landscape price data, which will run to the end of 2010 This year, for the first time, the download includes a versatile and powerful ebook.

Materials prices are rising, subcontract prices are volatile, and tender prices are falling. In this demanding market, understanding the details and future trends is crucial. This price book serves as an essential manual for professionals in civil engineering, surveying, and construction. It provides costs for general and civil engineering works, along with highway works, offering a complete breakdown of labor, plant, and material elements, with labor rates aligned with the latest CIJC wage agreement. The 24th edition is structured to comply with CESMM3 and MMHW, featuring prices and rates for a wide range of items, from ladders to lighting systems and canal dredging to cycle stands. In a competitive market, this book delivers instant-access cost information, serving as a comprehensive reference with tables, formulae, technical details, and professional advice. Buyers of the 2010 edition can download Spon’s price data for free, valid until the end of the year, which now includes a versatile ebook for the first time. This edition retains all the standard features expected from Spon’s Civil Engineering and Highway Works Price Book.