ABSTRACT

Now in its 40th edition, Spon's External Works and Landscape Price Book 2021 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 an ebook of this 2021 edition on the VitalSource® Bookshelf platform, available for access and use until the end of December 2021.

This NRM edition provides a revised and updated street furniture section.

It also includes several new items:

  • Kinley systems – Metal edgings and systems for landscapes and podiums
  • New cost evaluations of water features
  • Stainless steel landscape channel drainage

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, twice a year – see inside for registration details. Updates are available online at www.pricebooks.co.uk

part 1|28 pages

General

chapter |2 pages

Computation of the Cost of Materials

chapter |4 pages

The Landfill Tax

chapter |6 pages

The Aggregates Levy

chapter |2 pages

Cost Indices

chapter |2 pages

Regional Variations

part 2|12 pages

Rates of Wages – Building Industry

part 3|104 pages

Approximate Estimating Rates

part 4|396 pages

Prices for Measured Works

part 5|94 pages

Tables and Memoranda