ABSTRACT

Now in its 38th edition, Spon's External Works and Landscape Price Book 2019 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 2019 edition on the VitalSource® Bookshelf platform. This versatile and powerful online data viewing package is available for use until the end of December 2019.

This NRM edition includes the following new items:

  • Corten edgings
  • Glass balustrades
  • Decking pedestals for roof gardens
  • Stone copings
  • Tier system cladding.

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.

part 1|2 pages

Part 1: General

chapter 1|2 pages

Labour Rates Used in this Edition

chapter 4|2 pages

Computation of the Cost of Materials

chapter 5|3 pages

The Landfill Tax

chapter 6|5 pages

The Aggregates Levy

chapter 7|2 pages

Cost Indices

chapter 8|2 pages

Regional Variations

part 2|2 pages

Part 2: Rates of Wages – Building Industry

chapter 9|4 pages

Building Industry Wages

part 3|2 pages

Part 3: Approximate Estimating Rates

chapter 10|8 pages

Cost Models

chapter 11|88 pages

Preliminaries

part 4|1 pages

Part 4: Prices for Measured Works

chapter 12|1 pages

Introduction

chapter 13|380 pages

New Items for this Edition

part 5|1 pages

Part 5: Tables and Memoranda

chapter 14|93 pages

Chapter 14