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Spon's External Works and Landscape Price Book 2018
About this book
This year the rates in the book include contractor's overheads and profit, making the book easier for design and planning professionals.
Now in its 37th edition, Spon's External Works and Landscape Price Book 2018 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 – no matter what the size of the project being undertaken.
Use the access code inside the front cover of the book to get set up with a VitalSource® ebook of this 2018 edition. This versatile and powerful online data viewing package is available for use until the end of December 2018.
This NRM edition includes the following new items:
- BEGA external lighting
- Build-ups for Wienerberger Dutch paving bricks
- SUDS paving
- Alternative french drainage systems
- Pop-up power
- Porcelain paving
- Portland stone paving
- Portland stone walls and cladding
And new Cost Models for commercial housing and civic environments.
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
- updates, free of charge, two or three times a year – see inside for registration details. Updates are available online at www.pricebooks.co.uk
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Information
Contents
Preface to the Thirty-Seventh Edition
Acknowledgments
How to Use this Book
How this Book is Compiled
PART 1: General
Labour Rates Used in this Edition
Computation of Labour Rates Used in this Edition
Notes on the New Rules of Measurement Used in this Edition
Computation of the Cost of Materials
The Landfill Tax
The Aggregates Levy
Cost Indices
Regional Variations
PART 2: Rates of Wages – Building Industry
Building Industry Wages
PART 3: Approximate Estimating Rates
Cost Models
Preliminaries
8.1.1 Site Clearance
8.1.2 Preparatory Groundworks
8.2.1 Roads, Paths and Pavings
8.2.2 Special Surfacings and Pavings
8.3.1 Soft Landscaping, Seeding and Turfing
8.3.2 External Planting
8.3.3 Irrigation Systems
8.4.1 Fencing and Railings
8.4.2 Walls and Screens
8.4.3 Retaining Walls
8.5 External Fixtures
8.6 External Drainage
PART 4: Prices for Measured Works
Introduction
New Items for this Edition
1 Preliminaries
2 Off-Site Manufactured Materials, Components and Buildings
3 Demolitions
5 Excavating and Filling
6 Ground Remediation and Soil Stabilization
10 Crib Walls,Gabions and Reinforced Earth
11 In Situ Concrete Works
13 Precast Concrete
14 Masonry
19 Waterproofing
21 Cladding and Covering
28 Floor, Wall, Ceiling and Roof Finishings
28 Roof Finishings-Green Roofs
29 Decoration
33 Drainage Above Ground
34 Drainage Below Ground
35 Site Works
Bases for Pavings
Kerbs and Edgings
Pavings
Street Furniture
Sports and Play Equipment and Surfaces
Cold Water, Swimming Pools and Fountains
36 Fencing
36 Soft Landscaping
39 Electrical Services
PART 5: Tables and Memoranda
INDEX
Preface to the Thirty-Seventh Edition
New formats for this year’s edition – Overhead and Profit
Spon’s External Works...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Halftitle
- Title
- Copyright
- Table of Contents