World of Biology: School Edition

Langdon, Davis

Harcourt Brace College Publishers

Principles of Accounting

New for 2001 A free CD ROM containing Spon's A & B price data is included in the back of this book and will allow you to: *View the book 'on screen' *Index search *Cut and paste prices into other tender documents *Produce estimate and tender documents *Export to other major packages *Adjust rates and data *Perform simple calculations Spon's A & B is the most detailed, professionally relevant source of construction price information currently available. New features in this 126th edition include: *Amendment of Measured Work terminology following the revised Standard Method of Measurement 7th Edition (SMM7R) *Approximate estimating sections and measured works sections have been fully revised and contain more items than ever before  Plus all the standard features you have come to expect from Spon's A & B: *Prices geared to current tender levels through DL&E Tender Index, allowing the reader to make adjustments for market conditions throughout the year  *20,000 prices for the most frequently specified items, every one with labour time details  *Over 300 pages of major works items *Over 270 pages of prices for contracts under £65,000 * Hundreds of alternative materials prices, easily substituted into the build-up calculations, for the more unusual items * Approximate Estimates section providing element unit rates for hotels, residential, industrial retail, leisure and office buildings, and costs per m2 * Detailed guidance on wage rates, daywork, cost limits and allowances, property insurance and professional fees, plus useful formulae, design criteria and trade association addresses *Free updates available on the web www.pricebooks.co.uk

Spon's Architects' and Builders' Price Book 2001

Business & Money

EVEREST

Economics

Spon Press

Spon's Landscape and External Works Price Book 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 is therefore an indispensable reference book for quantity surveyors, landscape architects and contractors - essential for compiling estimates, specifications, bills of quantities and works schedules. A full index and list of manufacturers and suppliers gives easy reference to all items.  The L&E comes with a 'free' CDROM that enables the reader to view the entire book on screen, cut and paste prices into other tender documents, export to other major packages, perform simple calculations, index search, produce estimate and tender documents, adjust rates and data. This complete package now means that Spon's Landscape and External Works Price Book for 2002 is now better than ever and is a resource that no building firm, surveyor or architect should be without.  * Includes regional price variations * Material and measured work prices covering contract items from site clearance to planting with full breakdown into labour, materials, etc * Full coverage of external construction work: walls, fences, barriers, bollards, steps, car parks, paving, etc. and prices for land and surface water drainage and piped services * Playgrounds, sport and recreation work, lighting, seating, and water features including fountains, pools and lakes * Detailed guidance on wage rates, landscape consultant's fee scales, British Standards and recent legislation * Extensive Approximate Estimates section for rapid spot estimating  * Soft landscape works: grassed areas, planting, aquatics, forestry and maintenance period prices for grass, planting and tree work   New Features for 2002: * Fees for professional services * Revised and updated section on Cost Information * Approximate Estimate section is now fully linked to the Measured Works section and contains many new revisions and extensions of the items in the Measured Works * Now contains a Memorandum section which itself is a unique manual of information to the industry

Spon's Landscape and External Works Price Book 2002 (Spon's Price Books2002)

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Architecture

Spon's Architects' and Builders' Price Book 2004 is the most detailed, professionally relevant source of construction price information currently available anywhere. With competition growing fiercer throughout the industry and with increasing pressure to obtain a 'competitive advantage', the A and B's unique tender index will be more valuable than ever before. This is the only price book that publishes details of its cost base in such a way that it can be adjusted to allow for market conditions that affect building prices. A separate minor works section on coloured paper covers contracts of around £65,000 in value.The A and B comes with a 'free' CDROM that enables the reader to view the entire book on screen, cut and paste prices into other tender documents, export to other major packages, perform simple calculations, index search, produce estimate and tender documents and adjust rates and data. This complete package now means that Spon's Architects' and Builders' Price Book 2004 is now better than ever and is a resource that no building firm, surveyor or architect should be without.New features in this 129th edition include:an easier-to-read format; information on, and incorporating, the new CICJ three year wage agreement, effective from Monday, 30th June 2003. It also includes additional items for: hot and cold water piping systems; additional building boards and external wall cladding; further aluminium systems curtain walling; western red cedar external wall cladding; fire retardant steel beams; metal and glazed balustrading; sarnafil roofing and acoustic sliding partitions.

Spon's Architects' and Builders' Price Book 2004 (Spon's Pricebooks)

Spon's Architects' and Builders' Price Book 2006

Spon’s Architects' and Builders' Price Book is the most detailed, professionally relevant source of construction price information currently available anywhere. With competition growing fiercer throughout the industry and with increasing pressure to secure a 'competitive advantage', the A and B's unique Tender Index is more valuable than ever before. This is the only price book that gives a detailed cost base in a way that allows adjustment for market conditions that affect building prices for Major Works contracts exceeding £2,500,000 in value. As well as updating all prices, this 131st edition includes the following additional items: <ul>
<li>bathroom pods</li> <li>galvanised steel cladding and decking</li> <li>grade 316 stainless steel rebar</li> <li>minipile piling</li> <li>movable acoustic walls</li> <li>panel fire partitions.</li>
</ul> Substantive overhauls have also been undertaken on the following sections: asphalt and tarmacadam roads; building prices per square metre; diamond drilling and sawing; ironmongery, including specification changes to comply with BS 8300 and Approved Document M; and sanitary fittings. Plus all the standard features you have come to expect from Spon’s A and B: <ul>
<li>unique Davis Langdon Tender Index that allows the reader to make adjustments for market conditions throughout the year using Spon’s free updates</li> <li>20,000 prices for the most frequently specified items, the majority with labour constant details</li> <li>over 300 pages of Major and Minor Works items</li> <li>hundreds of alternative materials prices, easily substituted into the build-up calculations, for the more unusual items</li> <li>Approximate Estimating section providing element unit rates specifically for hotels, residential, industrial, retail, leisure and office buildings, and costs per m2 for 300 building types</li> <li>detailed guidance on wage rates, daywork, cost limits and allowances, property insurance and professional fees, plus useful formulae, design criteria and trade association addresses</li> <li>updated, free of charge, every three months – see enclosed card to register. Updates are available online at www.pricebooks.co.uk</li>
</ul> With its FREE CD–ROM containing Spon Architects' and Builders' price data, you can: <ul>
<li>produce estimate and tender documents</li> <li>generate priced or unpriced schedules</li> <li>adjust rates and data, and enter rogue items</li> <li>cut and paste prices into other tender documents</li> <li>view complete book 'on screen'</li> <li>carry out an index search.</li>
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Spon's Mechanical and Electrical Services Price Book 2006 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. With the emphasis within the building services industry now focusing on the reduction of energy consumption in buildings, and the need to produce a proportion of a building’s energy requirement from on site renewable sources, the 2006 edition features new entries for higher efficiency chillers and boilers and micro CHP units. Subsequent editions of the book will reflect developments in the industry in this respect, on an annual basis. All the standard features you have come to expect from Spon's Mechanical and Electrical 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 heating and air conditioning systems to pipework and insulation, and from power supplies to light switches an extensive Approximate Estimating section for quick, rule-of-thumb pricing of mechanical or electrical installations, including lifts and escalators, together with elemental services costs for different types and standard of buildings full details of wage rates, daywork and cost indices updated, free of charge, every three months – see enclosed card to register. Updates are available online at www.pricebooks.co.uk With FREE CD–ROM containing Spon's Civil Engineering and Highway Works price data.

Spon's Mechanical and Electrical Services Price Book 2006 (Spon's Price Books)

Spon’s Architects' and Builders' Price Book is the most detailed, professionally relevant source of construction price information currently available for the UK. With competition growing fiercer throughout the industry and with recent pressure on materials due to rising commodity prices, the A & B's unique Tender Index and checks against tenders are more valuable than ever before.  This is the only price book that gives a detailed cost base in a way that allows adjustment for market conditions that affect building prices for Major Works contracts exceeding £3,000,000 in value.  Two major changes have been made to this 132nd edition:  1. a brand new section provides Cost Models for eleven ‘key’ building types  2. the Approximate Estimates section has been completely re-modelled:   data is now consolidated into one main column instead of separate columns applied to different building types ranges of costs are now shown against all items specifications have been updated costs have received a sanity check against recent estimates additional items have been added.  As well as updating all prices, this 132nd edition includes the following additional items:   flue systems lightweight structural steel framing systems precast concrete staircases Spanish slates thin joint blockwork  Substantive overhauls have also been undertaken of:  Hardwood Flooring Metal Roofing Sheet Piling  … plus all the standard features you have come to expect from Spon’s A & B:  20,000 prices for the most frequently specified items, the majority with labour constant details almost 600 pages of Major and Minor Works items hundreds of alternative materials prices, easily substituted into the build-up calculations, 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 updated, free of charge, every four months – see enclosed card to register. Updates are available online at www.pricebooks.co.uk.  With its FREE CD–ROM containing Spon's Architects' and Builders' price data, you can:  now access Spon’s new Approximate Estimates rate data, as well as the Measured Works data produce estimate and tender documents generate priced or unpriced schedules adjust rates and data and enter rogue items cut and paste prices into other tender documents view complete book ‘on screen’ carry out an index search.  Other titles in the Spon’s Price Book Series: Spon’s Mechanical and Electrical Services Price Book 2007 Spon’s Civil Engineering and Highway Works Price Book 2007 Spon’s External Works and Landscape Price Book 2007

Spon's Architects' and Builders' Price Book 2007

Spon’s A & B Price Book is the most detailed, professionally relevant source of construction price information currently available for the UK. With competition growing fiercer throughout the industry and with recent pressure on materials due to rising commodity prices, the A & B's unique Tender Index and checks against tenders are more valuable than ever before.  This is the only price book that gives a detailed cost base in a way that allows adjustment for market conditions that affect building prices for Major Works contracts exceeding £3,300,000 in value.  Buyers of this 2008 edition can make a FREE internet download of Spon’s Architects’ and Builders’ price data, which will run to the end of 2008 and: – Access Spon’s new Approximate Estimates rate data, as well as the Measured Works data – Produce estimate and tender documents – Generate priced or unpriced schedules – Adjust rates and data and enter rogue items  – Export schedules into Excel – View the complete book ‘on screen’ – Carry out an index search      Three major changes have been made to this 133rd edition:  1. All sections have re-arranged to place more emphasis on the Approximate Estimates section  2. A new section deals with Sustainability, including indicative costs  3. A list of useful web-sites of comparative prices is given at the end of Tables and Memoranda.  As well as updating of all prices, this 133rd edition includes the following additional Measured Works items:   – Additional high quality balustrades – PVC wall linings – Rainscreen cladding – Resin-bonded gravel – SAS suspended ceilings – Self-levelling screeds – ‘Speedfit’ pipes and fittings – Tapered insulation boards – Waterproofing membranes – Window refurbishment  together with a further expansion of the Approximate Estimates section.  …plus all the standard features you have come to expect from Spon’s A & B: – 20 000 prices for the most frequently specified items, the majority with labour constant details – Almost 600 pages of Major and Minor Works items – Hundreds of alternative materials prices, easily substituted into the build-up calculations, 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 – Updated, free of charge, every four months – see enclosed card to register. Updates are available online at www.pricebooks.co.uk

Spon's Architects' and Builders' Price Book 2008 (Spon's Price Books)

SPON’S ARCHITECTS’ AND BUILDERS’ PRICE BOOK provides the most detailed, professionally relevant construction price information currently available for the UK. This year, for the first time, the download includes a versatile and powerful ebook.  1. The Preliminaries section has been re-written and based upon the 2005 JCT contract 2. The new section on Sustainability has been re-written and considerably expanded  As well as updating all prices, this 134th edition includes the following additional Measured Works items:   New, more economical, lower nickel, stainless steel rebars Schuco curtain walling Brises soleil "Ecologic" roofing tiles Velfac 200 windows Triple glazing  Along with… Additional items of rainscreen cladding Additional damp proof courses Further steel lintels Revisions to Patent Glazing items An expansion of radiators and manhole covers

Spon's Architects' and Builders' Price Book 2009 (Spon's Price Books)

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