Spon's Architects' and Builders' Price Book 2012, compiled by Davis Langdon, provides the most accurate, detailed and professionally relevant construction price information currently available for the UK. Its unique Tender Index, updated through the year, provides an ongoing reality check and adjustment for changing market conditions. This is the o

"Spons Architects and Builders Price Book 2012, compiled by Davis Langdon, provides the most accurate, detailed and professionally relevant construction price information currently available for the UK. Its unique Tender Index, updated through the year, provides an ongoing reality check and adjustment for changing market conditions. This is the only price book which sets out a detailed cost base for contracts exceeding 3,500,000 in value.Major changes have been made to this 137th edition. Major and Minor Works have been rationalized and combined, with clear guidance on how to make adjustments for project scale.As well as an overhaul of prices, Spons Architects and Builders Price Book 2012 includes: new cost models for a community centre, a car showroom, and a primary school extension new measured works such asOmnidec concrete upper floors, Slimdekand Ribdeck upper floors, insulated breathable membranes, Bradstone EnviroMasonry products, ASSA Abloy ironmongery doorsets, and the Aquacell stormwater drainage attenuation systemmore information for fire resistant cavity closures, suspended ceilings, cavity insulation, floor insulation, Gradus floors, Altro products, coloured Whiterock cladding, resins, vinyland rubber flooring, Velfac windows, Decra roof tiles, and Forbo floor products."--Provided by publisher.

Spon's Architects' and Builders' Price Book 2005 is the most detailed, professionally relevant source of construction price information currently available anywhere. With its unique Tender Index it is the only price book that publishes details of its cost base in a way allowing adjustments for market conditions that affect building prices. A separate minor works section covers contracts of around £65,000 in value. The 2005 edition includes the following new items: acrylic water-based emulsion paints, additional insulation boards and quilts, green items, and head and wall restraints among others.

21 papers focus on modelling the costs of construction over the course of 2,500 years, from Bronze Age Greece to the early Middle Ages. They discuss both broader issues of methodology and particular case studies, with particular attention to the exploitation of raw materials (e.g. quarries), transport, and construction processes on building sites.