BUILDING MAINTENANCE PRICE BOOK 2008
The latest edition of the Building Maintenance Price Book was published in March 2008. The price book has been completely revised for 2008 with additional items and updated rates including the latest significant changes to labour and materials costs.
This guide is an essential resource to plan and budget for building maintenance. Current subscribers include local authorities, housing associations, health authorities, educational establishments, facilities managers and surveyors.
The Building Maintenance Price Book is still the only publication dedicated to building maintenance costs. As an independent source of information, it is ideal for use in measured term contracts. Also ideal for estimating and pricing, the Price Book will help you with:
- Budgeting - Helps you calculate the financial content of budgets and consider these against overall policies.
- Estimating - Ensures a consistent level of accuracy and allows a detailed approach to estimating by contractors, DLO managers etc.
- Cost control - Provides a wide range of items to help negotiations with contractors or check their charges; the flexible format also allows the costs of other maintenance items to be calculated.
- Schedule of rates - Offers an ideal basis for letting work on measured term contracts.
- Letting maintenance work - Gives advice on how to let maintenance work.
- Increased costs - Includes guidance on how increased costs can be dealt with.
- Valuations of dilapidations - Provides approximate estimates of repair work required in the valuation of dilapidated premises.
- Planning - Facilitates advance decisions on the jobs, materials, labour and times required by a maintenance programme.
Our researchers have done the groundwork for you - by compiling a price book of labour, materials and plant hire costs for maintenance work, repairs and rehabilitation.
The Building Maintenance Price Book provides labour constants and measured rates for:
- Scaffolding
- Demolitions and alterations
- Excavation and concrete
- Brickwork
- Underpinning
- Stonework
- Roofing
- Woodwork
- Plumbing
- Electrical work
- Finishes
- Glazing
- Painting and decorating
- External works and drainage
Contents also include:
- All-in costs for builders, plumbers and electricians showing basic rates of pay and additional employment costs, such as national insurance, holidays with pay, etc
- Basic costs of materials
- Hire rates for a range of mechanical and non-mechanical plant
- Regional pricing levels
- Notes on different contracts for letting maintenance work.
"An extremely useful, compact and well presented cost guide …it is probably the market leader." Building
The Building Maintenance Price Book is clearly divided into three sections:
- Basic Costs - Labour Rates, Scaffolding & Plant and Materials
- Labour Constants - in hours for skilled and unskilled operatives to complete items of maintenance work, set out in trade order.
- Measured Rates - current prices for maintenance work based on the labour constants, materials prices, hire rates etc.
Publication date: March 2008
ISBN: 978 1 904829 73 7
To order a copy of the Building Maintenance Price Book 2008 (priced £110), order online or call us on T +44 (0)870 333 1600 (select option 2 for BCIS sales and quote item code 17268). Or, you can download the order form from the right hand column of this page.
The Building Maintenance Price Book is an annual publication, priced £110. As a subscriber you will receive a renewal invoice for the 2009 Building Maintenance Price Book in January 2009. The Building Maintenance Price Book 2009 will be sent in March 2009 upon receipt of your payment.
If you would like to use Building Maintenance prices in your computer system please contact us, T +44 (0)20 7695 1500, email: sales@bcis.co.uk to arrange a licence and data format.
The Building Maintenance Price Book 2008 is included free with a subscription to our BCIS Building Running Costs Online service.
Other BCIS services you may be interested in:
BERR MTC Updating Percentages Online (formerly known as Monthly Adjustments for Maintenance Contracts (updating percentages)).
Review of Maintenance Costs 2007 - This report shows the variation of maintenance costs for buildings with different user functions. BCIS estimates for the cost of maintaining a range of common building types are included.
