34th Edition

Spon's External Works and Landscape Price Book 2015

Edited By AECOM Copyright 2015

    This year’s book has a strong approximate estimates section, with most measured works items also presented as composite items.

    Now in its 34th edition, Spon's External Works and Landscape Price Book 2015 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.

    Use the access code inside the front cover of the book to get set up with internet access to this 2015 edition until the end of December 2015. We now provide Spon’s Online, a versatile and powerful online data viewing package, which replaces the estimating software and ebook of recent years.

    The book now uses a combination of NRM1 and NRM2 as the measurement standards. This edition includes the following new and significantly developed items

    • Further NRM format composites
    • Suspended paving systems
    • Precast walkways
    • New Marshalls paving ranges
    • Reconstituted stone bottle balustrades
    • …and now with a number of landscape cost models.

    Preface to the Thirty-Fourth Edition vii
    Acknowledgements xi
    How to Use this Book xxiii
    Worked Examples xxv
    Labour Rates Used in this Edition xxvi
    Computation of Mechnical Plant Costs xxvii
    How this Book is Compiled xxix
    PART 1: GENERAL 1
    Labour Rates Used in this Edition 3
    Computation of Labour Rates Used in this Edition 5
    Notes on the New Rules of Measurement (NRM) used in this Edition 11
    Computation of the Cost of Materials 13
    Landfill Tax 15
    The Aggregates Levy 17
    Cost Indices 23
    Regional Variations 25
    PART 2: RATES OF WAGES – BUILDING INDUSTRY 27
    Building Industry Wages 29
    PART 3: APPROXIMATE ESTIMATING RATES 33
    Cost models 35
    Preliminaries 38
    8.1.1 Site Clearance 40
    8.1.2 Preparatory Groundworks 43
    8.2.1 Roads Paths Pavings and Surfacings 49
    8.2.2 Special Surfacings and Pavings 71
    8.3.1 Soft Landscaping Seeding and Turfing 73
    8.3.2 External Planting 79
    8.3.3 Irrigation Systems 93
    8.4.1 Fencing and Railings 95
    8.4.2 Walls and Screens 99
    8.4.3 Retaining Walls 107
    8.4.4 Barriers and Guardrails 110
    8.5 External Fixtures 111
    8.6 External Drainage 113
    PART 4: PRICES FOR MEASURED WORKS 121
    Introduction 121
    New Items for 2015 122
    1 Preliminaries 128
    2 Off-site Manufactured Materials, Components
    and Buildings 140
    3 Demolitions 142
    4 Alterations, Repairs and Conservation 148
    5 Excavating and Filling 149
    6 Ground Remediation and Soil Stabilization 158
    10 Crib Walls, Gabions and Reinforced Earth 167
    11 In Situ Concrete Works 174
    13 Precast Concrete 181
    14 Masonry 182
    19 Waterproofing 195
    21 Cladding and Covering 197
    28 Floor, Wall, Ceiling and Roof Finishings 198
    29 Decoration 206
    33 Drainage Above Ground 208
    34 Drainage Below Ground 209
    35 Site Works 240
    Clarification notes on labour costs in this
    section 240
    Excavation of pathways 240
    Filling to make up levels 240
    Surface treatments to granular bases 241
    Formwork for concrete pavings 241
    Reinforcement to concrete pavings 241
    Expansion joints 241
    Channels 242
    In situ concrete pavings 243
    Granular pavings 244
    Macadam surfacing 246
    Resin bound surfacing 248
    Resin bonded surfacing 250
    Marking car parks 250
    Cellular confined bases 251
    Cellular confined granular pavings 252
    Cellular pavings 253
    Woodchip pathways 254
    Specialized mortars for pavings 255
    Suspended paving 255
    Precast concrete block pavings 256
    SUDS permeable block pavings 258
    Brick pavings 260
    Precast concrete slab pavings 263
    Reconstituted stone slab pavings 267
    Deterrent slab pavings 268
    Grass concrete 268
    Natural stone slab pavings 270
    Natural stone setts 272
    Cobble pavings 272
    Timber decking 272
    Steps 275
    Boreholes 276
    Cold water 276
    Rainwater harvesting 277
    Irrigation 279
    Fountains and water features 283
    Internal water features 283
    Lakes and ponds 284
    Swimming pools 289
    35 Site Works – Bases 292
    Hardcore bases 292
    Type 1 bases 292
    35 Site Works – Kerbs and Edgings 294
    Foundations to kerbs 294
    Precast concrete kerbs 295
    Precast concrete edgings 297
    Stone kerbs 297
    Stone edgings 298
    Brick edgings 300
    Timber edgings 301
    Metal edgings 302
    35 Site Works – Street Furniture 304
    Barriers 304
    Bases for street furniture 304
    Bins: litter/waste/dogwaste/salt and grit 306
    Bollards 309
    Cycle holders/cycle shelters 312
    Flagpoles 313
    Generally 314
    Pergolas 314
    Picnic tables/sundry furniture 315
    Plant containers 315
    Seating 317
    Signage 320
    Smoking shelters 321
    Stones and boulders 322
    Tree grilles/tree protection 322
    35 Site Works – Sports,
    Play Equipment, Surfaces 324
    Market prices of sports and play surfacing
    materials 324
    Sports equipment 324
    Playground equipment 325
    Natural sports pitches 329
    Play surfaces 329
    Tennis courts 331
    36 Fencing 333
    37 Soft Landscaping 352
    39 Electrical Services 446
    PART 5: TABLES AND MEMORANDA 459
    INDEX 553

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