Summary

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 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, 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 and 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 and rubber flooring, Velfac windows, Decra roof tiles, and Forbo floor products.