ABSTRACT

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

part 1|26 pages

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|5 pages

Rates of Wages – Building Industry

chapter 9|4 pages

Building Industry Wages

part 3|92 pages

Approximate Estimating Rates

chapter 10|8 pages

Cost Models

chapter 11|3 pages

Preliminaries

chapter 12|3 pages

8.1.1 Site Clearance

chapter 13|6 pages

8.1.2 Preparatory Groundworks

chapter 14|22 pages

8.2.1 Roads, Paths and Pavings

chapter 8.2.2|48 pages

Special Surfacings and Pavings

part 4|394 pages

Prices for Measured Works

chapter 24|1 pages

Introduction

chapter 25|18 pages

New Items for this Edition

chapter 26|13 pages

1 Preliminaries

chapter 28|5 pages

3 Demolitions

chapter 29|11 pages

5 Excavating and Filling

chapter 31|7 pages

10 Crib Walls,Gabions and Reinforced Earth

chapter 32|9 pages

11 In Situ Concrete Works

chapter 34|17 pages

14 Masonry

chapter 35|3 pages

19 Waterproofing

chapter 38|12 pages

28 Roof Finishings-Green Roofs

chapter 39|4 pages

29 Decoration

chapter 41|35 pages

34 Drainage Below Ground

chapter 42|108 pages

35 Site Works-Bases For Pavings

chapter 43|20 pages

36 Fencing

chapter 44|103 pages

37 Soft Landscaping

chapter 45|14 pages

39 Electrical Services

part 46|94 pages

Tables and Memoranda

chapter 46|4 pages

Conversion Tables

chapter 47|5 pages

Geometry

chapter 50|6 pages

Earthwork

chapter 51|5 pages

Concrete Work

chapter 52|2 pages

Reinforcement

chapter 53|1 pages

Formwork

chapter 54|3 pages

Masonry

chapter 55|5 pages

Timber

chapter 56|4 pages

Roofing

chapter 57|1 pages

Glazing

chapter 58|18 pages

Metal

chapter 59|7 pages

Kerbs/Edgings/Channels

chapter 60|3 pages

Seeding/Turfing and Planting

chapter 61|5 pages

Fencing and Gates

chapter 62|7 pages

Drainage

chapter 63|1 pages

Electrical Supply/Power/Lighting Systems

chapter 64|3 pages

Rail Tracks

chapter 66|1 pages

Imperial Standard Wire Gauge (SWG)

chapter 67|9 pages

Pipes, Water, Storage, Insulation