Spon's Construction Cost and Price Indices Handbook


Book Description

This unique handbook collects together a comprehensive and up-to-date range of indices measuring construction costs and price movements. The authors give guidance on the use of the data making this an essential aid to accurate estimating.







Sweets Residential Cost Guide 2006


Book Description

McGraw-Hill Construction Sweets Residential Cost Guide 2006 from BNI Building News & McGraw-Hill Construction gives you more value and better data than any similar guide available. Flip through the book for the industry's most precise, most thoroughly researched residential construction costs. Your estimates, bids, specifications, and cost checks will come in right on target with this annually updated guide, So thorough, you'll find costs for just about every item. Labor, materials, and equipment prices have been calculated from the average cost of actual jobs completed in 1000s of loations nationwide and presented in CSI MasterFormat -- the industry standard for estimating. With this valuable resource, you'll be able to accurately calculate overhead, profit, and productivity rates. A handy geographical conversion table is included so making adjustments for local costs is a snap.