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Conflicting signals! Public sector cutbacks, soaring input costs, and a mixed picture all round. You need Spon’s Architects’ and Builders’ Price Book 2012 to get the detail right.

Spon’s A&B Price Book, 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 rationalised and combined, with clear guidance on how to adjustment for project scale

As well as an overhaul of prices, Spon’s 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 as Omnidec concrete upper floors, Slimdek & Ribdeck upper floors, insulated breathable membranes, Bradstone EnviroMasonry products, ASSA Abloy ironmongery doorsets, and the Aquacell stormwater drainage attenuation system
• More information for fire resistant cavity closures, suspended ceilings, cavity insulation, floor insulation, Gradus floors, Altro products, coloured Whiterock cladding, resins, vinyl & rubber flooring, Velfac windows, Decra roof tiles, and Forbo floor products

By internet download, buyers additionally get this 2012 edition as a versatile and powerful ebook along with Spon’s Architects’ and Builders’ price data, which will run to the end of 2012 and have access to Spon’s new Approximate Estimates rate data, as well as the Measured Works data which:

• Produces estimate and tender documents
• Generates priced or unpriced schedules
• Adjusts rates and data and enter rogue items
• Exports schedules into Excel
• Carries out an index search.

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