SPONS pricebooks 2024 available to order
[edit] SPON'S Price Book series 2024
Published September 22, 2023 and now available for order in hard copy and e-Book. These publications from AECOM provide the most accurate, detailed and professionally relevant construction price information for the UK. Take advantage of discounted e-license bundles and share them with your team.
Electronic format (e-Book) prices for five licence keys are £225 (£45 per key) as part of an exclusive promotion between BSRIA and Taylor & Francis. On purchase, we will send you a link to a website where you can input the licence key and gain access to the e-Book. Find out more about how licence keys work here. (PDF).
Hard copy prices for a hardback version vary from £170 to £195 with a complimentary licence key.
On purchase, it will be posted via our print-on-demand distributor, Hachette. Delivery is free to UK destinations.
For further information visit the BSRIA bookshop at https://www.bsria.com/uk/knowledge/bookshop/
[edit] SPON'S Architects' and Builders' Price Book 2024 (SPONSA24)
Spon’s Architects’ and Builders’ Price Book 2024, compiled by AECOM, still provides the most accurate, detailed and professionally relevant construction price information for the UK. Its unique Tender Index, updated through the year (2015 = 100), gives an ongoing reality check and allows you to adjust for changing market conditions. Although it suits a wide range of project sizes, this is the only price book which sets out a detailed cost base for contracts exceeding £4,000,000 in value.
As well as the most wide-ranging market testing exercise since the war elevated inflationary pressure, the following items have been added:
- An update on the exceptional market conditions currently faced.
- Discussion about recent changes to building regulations for non-domestic buildings.
- Along with the standard features you have come to expect from Spon’s Architects’ and Builders’ Price Book:
- 20,000 prices for the most frequently specified items, the majority with labour constants and detailed build-ups.
- Hundreds of alternative materials prices for the more unusual items.
- Detailed guidance on wage rates, daywork, cost limits and allowances, property insurance and professional fees, plus useful formulae, design criteria and trade association addresses.
[edit] Architects' and Builders' Price Book Table of Contents
- General
- Rates of Wages and Labour
- Approximate Estimating
- Prices for Measured Works
- Fees for Professional Services
- Daywork and Prime Cost
- Useful addresses for further information
- Tables and Memoranda
- Index
[edit] Architects' and Builders' Price Book Product details
Published: September 2023 Publisher: Taylor and Francis Author: AECOM
ISBN: Book:- 9781032550084 ISBN: E-book:- 9781003428534
[edit] SPON's Civil Engineering and Highway Works Price Book 2024 - details
SPONS's Civil Engineering and Highway Works Price Book 2024, complied by AECOM, gives a full breakdown of labour, plant and material elements, with labour rates updated. Cost guidance is given at a number of levels, varying from the more general functional costs to detailed resource costing; and in conformity with CESMM4 and the Highways Method of Measurement, and updated to the CIJC wage agreement.
Along with the standard features you have come to expect from SPONS's Civil Engineering and Highway Works Price Book, you will find:
- for budgeting: estimating principles, on-cost advice, method-related charges
- for resource costings: labour costs, plant costs, material prices
- for rapid cost information: approximate estimates, dayworks, cost indices
- for plant and labour allowances: production rates, outputs, man hour constants
- for detailed pricing: unit costs with full breakdown, or specialist prices, with advice on item coverage, waste allowances and comparative costs
- for incidental advice: tables and formulae, technical information, professional advice
[edit] SPON's Civil Engineering and Highway Works Price Book Table of Contents
- General
- On-costs and Profit
- Cost Indices and Location Factors
- Resources
- Approximate Estimating
- Unit Costs- Civil Engineering Works
- Unit Costs - Highway Works
- Daywork
- Professional Fees
- Outputs
- Useful Addresses for Further information
- Tables and Memoranda
- Index
[edit] SPON's Civil Engineering and Highway Works Price Book Product details
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Author: AECOM
ISBN: Hard copy - 9781032550138 ISBN: E-book - 9781003428589
[edit] SPON's External Works and Landscape Price Book 2024 - details
Spon's External Works and Landscape Price Book 2024, compiled by AECOM, 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.
The 2024 edition includes:
- updated key resources to obtain the latest market pricing and align with the latest supply material specifications and/or quantities
- guidance on land remediation, tax relief, capital allowances and aggregates levies
- revised rates in line with the latest market forecasts and indices, which include the impacts of Brexit, the pandemic, Ukraine supply chain disruption and the energy crisis
- 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, twice a year – see inside for registration details. Updates are available online at www.pricebooks.co.uk
[edit] Spon's External Works and Landscape Price Book Table of Contents
- General
- Approximate Estimating Rates
- Prices for Measured Works
- Tables and Memoranda
- Index
[edit] Spon's External Works and Landscape Price Book Product details
Published: October 2023 Publisher: Taylor and Francis Author: AECOM
ISBN: Hardcopy - 9781032550589 ISBN: E-book - 9781003428824
[edit] SPON's Mechanical and Electrical Services Price Book 2024 - details
Spon's Mechanical and Electrical Services Price Book 2024, compiled by AECOM, continues to be the most comprehensive and best annual services engineering price book currently available, providing detailed pricing information across the full range of mechanical and electrical services, together with higher-level costs for a diverse range of systems and different building applications.
All the standard features you have come to expect from SPON'S are also included, considered essential for today’s services cost professional:
- detailed materials prices, labour constants, labour costs and measured work prices for mechanical and electrical works, from above ground drainage to automatic transfer switches, and circuit breakers to sprinkler systems
- an extensive Approximate Estimating section for quick, rule-of-thumb pricing of mechanical or electrical installations, together with elemental services costs for different types and standard of buildings
- full details of wage rates, daywork and cost indices on a national and Central London basis
- an overhauled index and guidance notes
[edit] Spon's Mechanical and Electrical Services Price Book Table of Contents:
- General
- Engineering Features
- Approximate Estimating
- Material Costs/Measured Works Prices – Mechanical Installations
- Material Costs/Measured Works Prices – Electrical Installations
- Rates of Wages
- Daywork
- Tables and Memoranda
- Index
[edit] Spon's Mechanical and Electrical Services Price Book Product details
Published: October 2023 Publisher: Taylor and Francis Author: AECOM
ISBN: Hardcopy - 9781032550619 ISBN: E-book - 9781003428831
This article is made up of a series of articles available on the BSRIA bookshop website' "SPON'S Architects' and Builders' Price Book 2024 (SPONSA24)", "SPONS's Civil Engineering and Highway Works Price Book 2024 (SPONSC24)", "SPON's External Works and Landscape Price Book 2024 (SPONSE24)", "SPONS's Mechanical and Electrical Services Price Book 2024 (SPONSM24)" Dated October 2023.
--BSRIA
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