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Author Langdon, Davis

Title Spon's Architects' and Builders' Price Book 2012
Edition 137th ed
Published Florence : CRC Press, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (851 pages)
Contents ""Contents""; ""Preface to the One Hundred and Thirty-Seventh Edition""; ""Recent construction activity trends""; ""Book price level""; ""This edition""; ""Future measurement changes""; ""Profits and overheads""; ""Preliminaries""; ""Special Acknowledgements""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""How to Use This Book""; ""APPROXIMATE ESTIMATING""; ""MEASURED WORKS""; ""Prime cost""; ""Labour""; ""Materials""; ""Plant""; ""Unit""; ""Total rate""; ""Overheads and profit""; ""Preliminaries""; ""Sub/specialist-contractor�s costs""; ""COST PLANNING""; ""New rules of measurement""; ""Order of cost estimate""
""New secondary school""""Elemental cost planning""; ""Health Centre""; ""Formal cost planning stages""; ""Adjustment according to contract sum cost""; ""PART 1: General""; ""Capital Allowances""; ""Introduction""; ""The Act""; ""Plant and machinery""; ""Sections 21 and 22 do not affect the question whether expenditure on any item in List C is expenditure on the provision of Plant or Machinery""; ""Integral features""; ""Thermal insulation""; ""Long-life assets""; ""Case law""; ""Refurbishment schemes""; ""Annual investment allowance""; ""The enhanced capital allowances scheme""
""Industrial buildings allowances""""Writing-down allowances""; ""Hotel allowances""; ""Enterprise zones""; ""Flat conversion allowances""; ""Business premises renovation allowance""; ""Agricultural building allowances""; ""Other capital allowances""; ""Value Added Tax""; ""Introduction""; ""The scope of VAT""; ""Rates of VAT""; ""Recovery of VAT""; ""Use for business and non-business activities""; ""Taxable persons""; ""VAT exempt supplies""; ""Construction services""; ""DIY builders and converters""; ""Building contracts""; ""Construction management and project management""
""Liquidated and ascertained damages""""The Aggregates Levy""; ""Definitions""; ""Incidence""; ""Exemption from tax""; ""Discounts""; ""Impact""; ""Avoidance""; ""Land Remediation""; ""Statutory framework""; ""The EU Landfill Directive""; ""Effect on disposal costs""; ""Tax relief for remediation of contaminated land""; ""The relief""; ""What is remediation?""; ""Definitions""; ""Conditions""; ""The Landfill Tax""; ""The tax""; ""Calculating the weight of waste""; ""Effect on prices""; ""Exemptions""; ""Property Insurance""; ""Present cost""; ""Allowance for inflation""; ""Fees""
""Value Added Tax (VAT)""""Building Costs Indices, Tender Price Indices and Location Factors""; ""Building costs""; ""Tender prices""; ""Regional variations""; ""Preliminaries""; ""Preliminary particulars""; ""Contractors design documents""; ""Insurance of the works*""; ""CDP professional indemnity insurance""; ""Joint fire code: compliance""; ""A30�A37 EMPLOYERS' REQUIREMENTS""; ""A40�A55 CONTRACTORS GENERAL COST ITEMS""; ""PART 2: Rates of Wages""; ""BUILDING INDUSTRY � ENGLAND, WALES AND SCOTLAND""; ""BUILDING AND ALLIED TRADES JOINT INDUSTRIAL COUNCIL""
Summary "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
Notes ""Plumbing and mechanical engineering services industry""
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Subject Building -- Estimates.
Building -- Estimates
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781482266832
1482266830