Costing, Estimating and Tendering

Spon's A&B still provides the most accurate, detailed and professionally relevant construction price information for the UK, with a VitalSource (R) ebook, for use until the end of 2024.

The definitive M&E price book with additions to the measured works, updates to approximate estimating and new engineering features.

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

Spon's External Works and Landscape Price Book 2024 offers the only comprehensive source of information for detailed external works and landscape costs.

This book is an introductory text on building measurement and estimating for simple buildings in Hong Kong, based on the Hong Kong Standard Method of Measurement, 4th Edition, Revised 2018 (HKSMM4 Rev 2018).

This book shows practitioners the ways that fees are calculated, negotiated and managed. It will increase your understanding of the different fee-earning roles for architects, professional services contracts, how to calculate sustainable fee levels and improve negotiation skills.

Focuses on projects otherwise overshadowed by the spectacular and extravagant buildings that fill the specialist journals: unvarnished, unpretentious buildings that, despite tight budgets, are clearly worked out to the last detail. They exemplify how, and by what measures, cost-effective planning and building are possible.

Follows the building design cost planning process from the crucial inception stages, through all the design stages to the completion of the technical design, contract documentation and the tender. Refers to BIM, NRM1, and the RIBA Plan of Work to provide a template for good cost planning practice.

This key text for the building team is an authoritative guide and gives a detailed account of the team's roles and responsibilities, with best industry practice required to ensure that building projects meet clients' expectations on time, cost and quality.