ABSTRACT
This year’s book has a strong approximate estimates section, with most measured works items also presented as composite items.
Now in its 34th edition, Spon's External Works and Landscape Price Book 2015 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 internet access to this 2015 edition until the end of December 2015. We now provide Spon’s Online, a versatile and powerful online data viewing package, which replaces the estimating software and ebook of recent years.
The book now uses a combination of NRM1 and NRM2 as the measurement standards. This edition includes the following new and significantly developed items
- Further NRM format composites
- Suspended paving systems
- Precast walkways
- New Marshalls paving ranges
- Reconstituted stone bottle balustrades
- …and now with a number of landscape cost models.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|26 pages
General
chapter |2 pages
Labour Rates Used in this Edition
chapter |6 pages
Computation of Labour Rates Used in this Edition
chapter |2 pages
Notes on the New Rules of Measurement (NRM) Used in this Edition
chapter |2 pages
Computation of the Cost of Materials
chapter |2 pages
Landfill Tax
chapter |6 pages
The Aggregates Levy
chapter |2 pages
Cost Indices
chapter |2 pages
Regional Variations
section 2|6 pages
Rates of Wages - Building Industry
chapter |4 pages
Building Industry Wages
part 3|88 pages
Approximate Estimating Rates
chapter |3 pages
Cost Models
chapter |83 pages
Preliminaries
part 4|338 pages
Prices for Measured Works
chapter |1 pages
Introduction
chapter |337 pages
New Items 2015
part 5|94 pages
Tables and Memoranda