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Spon's Architects' and Builders' Price Book - ibg0203 - 09-21-2010

Spon's Architects' and Builders' Price Book 2005

Spon's Architects' and Builders' Price Book 2005
By Davis Langdon

Publisher: Routledge
Number Of Pages: 1056
Publication Date: 2004-11-23
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0415348382
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780415348386

Product 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 the standard 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 enclosed card to register. Updates are available online at

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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

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RE: Spon's Architects' and Builders' Price Book 2005 - danyjr - 01-31-2011

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RE: Spon's Architects' and Builders' Price Book 2005 - cordoba123 - 10-31-2011

Spon's Architects' and Builders' Price Book 2010 (Spon's Price Books) >> By Davis Langdon

In today’s economic turmoil most materials costs are still rising but tender prices are falling sharply. So looking at price lists is not enough – you need Spon’s Architects’ and Builders’ Price Book 2010 to find out what contractors are actually charging and to get for real price data.

Compiled by Davis Langdon, Spon’s Architects’ and Builders’ Price Book provides the most accurate, detailed and professionally relevant construction price information currently available for the UK. Its unique Tender Index, updated through the year, provides an ongoing reality check and adjustment for changing market conditions. This is the only price book which sets out a detailed cost base for Major Works contracts exceeding £3,500,000 in value.

Major changes have been made to this 135th edition:

Overheads and profits have been revised sharply downwards to 2.5% in line with actual levels. Preliminaries have also been dropped to 13%, on a lower cost base. And labour rates have been adjusted to reflect today’s economic conditions.

As well as updating all prices, Spon’s Architects’ and Builders’ Price Book 2010 includes about 150 new Measured Works items, including:

Additional ACO drainage systems such as Qmax – a large capacity drainage channel and Kerbdrain made from recycled and recyclable material

An overhauled Kalzip roofing section

Plus, over 900 key Approximate Estimate items with high & low rate ranges

And 13 elemental building cost models

Buyers of this 2010 edition can make a free internet download of Spon’s Architects’ and Builders’ price data, which will run to the end of 2010 and:

– Access Spon’s 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

– Export schedules into Excel

– Carry out an index search

This year, for the first time, the download includes a versatile and powerful ebook.

…plus all 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

– 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

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RE: Spon's Architects' and Builders' Price Book 2005 - cordoba123 - 01-05-2012

Spon's Architects' and Builders' Price Book 2011 (Spon's Price Books) >> By Davis Langdon

With tender prices rising slightly, looking at price lists is not enough – you need SPON’S ARCHITECTS’ AND BUILDERS’ PRICE BOOK 2011 to get a competitive edge.

SPON’S ARCHITECTS’ AND BUILDERS’ PRICE BOOK, compiled by Davis Langdon, provides the most accurate, detailed and professionally relevant construction price information currently available for the UK. Its unique Tender Index, updated through the year, provides an ongoing reality check and adjustment for changing market conditions. This is the only price book which sets out a detailed cost base for major works contracts exceeding £3,500,000 in value, as well as minor works.

Major changes have been made to this 136th edition:

Overheads and profits have been kept low and in line with actual levels. Preliminaries have also been dropped to 11%, on a lower cost base. And labour rates have been adjusted to reflect today’s fragile market.

As well as an overhaul of prices, Spon's Architects' and Builders' Price Book 2011includes:

new Measured Works items including bio diverse roofs; Clayboard void formers; fire resisting glass blocks; UPVC window options (coloured, Secured by Design); glazing (curve cutting, drill holes); insulating panels (Kooltherm, Thermafloor, Thermaline); more internal door options; blister tactile paving; Metsec SFS framing; Ecosil paint

new Approximate Estimating items: lift pits; Corium brick tiles; solar hot water; photovoltaic cells; and polished plaster

extra elemental building cost models on land remediation; school refurbishment; and office refurbishment.

Buyers of this 2011 edition can make a free internet download of SPON’S ARCHITECTS’ AND BUILDERS’ price data, which will run to the end of 2011 and:

Access Spon’s 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

Export schedules into Excel

Carry out an index search.

This year, for the first time, the resources include a versatile and powerful ebook.

About the Author
Construction Consultants, UK

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