Surveyor Books: External Works and Landscape Price Book 2013

This year's special focus is on water related issues. Now in its 32nd edition, SPON'S EXTERNAL WORKS AND LANDSCAPE PRICE BOOK 2013 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, contra...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Hardback - 720 pages

This year's special focus is on water related issues. Now in its 32nd edition, SPON'S EXTERNAL WORKS AND LANDSCAPE PRICE BOOK 2013 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 - and no matter what the size of the project being undertaken. Use the access code inside the back cover of the book to get set up with internet access to this 2013 edition until the end of December 2013.

We now provide Spon's Online, a versatile and powerful online data viewing package, which replaces the estimating software and ebook of recent years and which is no longer supplied with the hard copy book. This edition includes the following new and significantly developed items Rainwater harvesting tanks - tank-prices and options Cellweb - load support systems and erosion control Outdoor rooms - various design options of home-offices and garden studios Green roofs - updated systems of green roof treatments and installations Permeable pavings - permeable macadams, bricks and more on standard pavings a This year's book delivers more approximate estimate composite costs items than in recent years, and the measured works have been integrated and developed accordingly.

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 Updated, free of charge, two or three times a year - see inside for registration details. Updates are available online at www.pricebooks.co.uk. Other titles in the SPON'S Price Book Series: SPON'S CIVIL ENGINEERING AND HIGHWAY WORKS PRICE BOOK 2013 SPON'S ARCHITECTS' AND BUILDERS' PRICE BOOK 2013 SPON'S MECHANICAL AND ELECTRICAL SERVICES PRICE BOOK 2013.