Spon’s Civil Engineering and Highway Works Price Book 2022, 36th Edition

Length: 682 pages
Edition: 36
Language: English
Publisher: CRC Press
Publication Date: 2021-10-11
ISBN-10: 1032052201
ISBN-13: 9781032052205
Sales Rank: #0 (See Top 100 Books)

Captures real material, plant and labour costs from the UK’s major live rail, civils and highways projects.

SPON’S CIVIL ENGINEERING AND HIGHWAY WORKS PRICE BOOK 2022 from 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.

Use the access code inside the front cover of the book to get set up with an ebook of this 2022 edition on the VitalSource® Bookshelf platform, available for access and use until the end of December 2022. As well as a general update and review of prices, this edition includes extra details on output rates for tunnelling and associated works and additional prices for tunnelling works, cross passages, precast concrete tunnel linings, insitu sprayed concrete lining to tunnel walls and viaducts.

… along with the standard features you have come to expect from SPON’S CIVIL ENGINEERING AND HIGHWAY WORKS PRICE BOOK:

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
updates, free of charge, twice a year – see inside for registration details. Updates are available online at www.pricebooks.co.uk

Cover
Halftitle Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Preface to the Thirty-Sixth Edition
Acknowledgements
Part 1 General
    Brexit and the UK construction sector
    Purpose and content of the book
    Outline of the tendering and estimating process
    Research & Development (R&D) tax relief
    Capital allowances
    Value added tax
    The aggregates levy
    Land remediation
    The landfill tax
Part 2 Oncosts and Profit
    Risk/opportunity
    Head office overheads
    Profit
    Finance costs — assessment of contract investment
    Value added tax
    Tender summary
Part 3 Cost Indices and Location Factors
    Introduction
    A constructed cost index
    The road construction cost index
    Regional variations
Part 4 Resources
    Basis of this section
    Labour costs
    Plant costs
Part 5 Approximate Estimating
    Preliminaries and general items
    Building prices per square metre
    Approximate estimating rates — General building works
        1 Substructure
            1.1 Substructure
        2 Superstructures
            2.1 Frame
            2.2 Upper floors
            2.3 Roof
            2.4 Stairs and ramps
            2.5 External walls
            2.6 Windows and external doors
            2.7 Internal walls and partitions
            2.8 Internal doors
        3 Internal finishes
            3.1 Wall finishes
            3.2 Floor finishes
            3.3 Ceiling finishes
        4 Fittings, furnishings and equipment
            4.1 Fittings, furnishings and equipment
        5 Services
            5.1 Sanitary installations
            5.4 Water installations
            5.6 Space heating and air conditioning
            5.7 Ventilating systems
            5.8 Electrical installations
            5.9 Fuel installations
            5.10 Lift and conveyor installations
            5.11 Fire and lightning protection
            5.12 Communication and security Installations
            5.13 Special installations
            5.14 Builder’s work in connection with services
        8 External works
            8.2 Roads, paths, pavings and surfaces
            8.3 Soft landscaping, planting and irrigation systems
            8.4 Fencings, railings and walls
            8.5 External fixtures
            8.6 External drainage
            8.7 External services
            8.8 Ancillary buildings and structures
        9 Main contractor’s preliminaries
            9.2 Main contractor’s preliminaries
    Approximate estimating rates — Ancillary building works
    Water and treatment facilities
    Earth retention and stabilization
    Bridgeworks
    Tunnelling field costs
    Highway works
    Underpasses
    Access scaffolding
    Temporary works
Part 6 Unit Costs — Civil Engineering Works
    Introductory notes
    Guidance notes
    Class A: General items
    Class B: Ground investigation
    Class C: Geotechnical and other specialist processes
    Class D: Demolition and site clearance
    Class E: Earthworks
    Class F: In situ concrete
    Class G: Concrete ancillaries
    Class H: Precast concrete
    Class I: Pipework - pipes
    Class J: Pipework — fittings and valves
    Class K: Pipework — manholes and pipework ancillaries
    Class L: Pipework — supports and protection, ancillaries to laying and excavation
    Class M: Structural metalwork
    Class N: Miscellaneous metalwork
    Class O: Timber
    Class P: Piles
    Class Q: Piling ancillaries
    Class R: Roads and pavings
    Class S: Rail track
    Class T: Tunnels
    Class U: Brickwork, blockwork and masonry
    Class V: Painting
    Class W: Waterproofing
    Class X: Miscellaneous work
    Class Y: Sewer and water main renovation and ancillary works
Part 7 Unit Costs — Highway Works
    Introductory notes
    Guidance notes
    Series 100: Preliminaries
    Series 200: Site clearance
    Series 300: Fencing
    Series 400: Road restraint systems (vehicle and pedestrian)
    Series 500: Drainage and service ducts
    Series 600: Earthworks
    Series 700: Pavements
    Series 1100: Kerbs, footways & paved areas
    Series 1200: Traffic signs and road markings
    Series 1300: Road lighting columns and brackets, CCTV masts and cantilever masts
    Series 1400: Electrical work for road lighting and traffic signs
    Series 1500: Motorway communications
    Series 1600: Piling and embedded retaining walls
    Series 1700: Structural concrete
    Series 1800: Steelwork for structures
    Series 1900: Protection of steelwork against corrosion
    Series 2000: Waterproofing for structures
    Series 2100: Bridge bearings
    Series 2300: Bridge expansion joints and sealing of gaps
    Series 2400: Brickwork, blockwork and stonework
    Series 2500: Special structures
    Series 2700: Accommodation works, works for statutory undertakers
    Series 3000: Landscape and ecology
    Series 5000: Maintenance painting of steelwork
Part 8 Daywork
    Introduction
    Schedules of dayworks carried out incidental to contract work
    Application of dayworks
Part 9 Professional Fees
    Consulting engineers' conditions of appointment
    Quantity surveyors' conditions of appointment
Part 10 Outputs
    Disposal of excavated materials
    Breaking out pavements, brickwork, concrete and masonry by hand and pneumatic breaker
    Loading loose materials and items by hand
    Placing ready mixed concrete in the works
    Fixing bar reinforcement
    Erecting formwork to beams and walls
    Erecting formwork to slabs
    Multipliers for formwork
    Laying and jointing flexible-jointed clayware pipes
    Precast concrete manholes in sections
    Tunnelling, diaphragm walls, major earthworks & fencing
Part 11 Useful Addresses for Further Information
Part 12 Tables and Memoranda
Index