Spon's Civil Engineering and Highway Works Price Book 2025 (HARD COPY ONLY)

SPON’S Civil Engineering and Highway Works 2025

It provides a full breakdown of labour, plant and material elements for civil and highway works. Cost guidance is given at a number of levels, varying from the more general functional costs to detailed resource costing; and in conformity with CESMM4 and the Highways Method of Measurement, and updated to the CIJC wage agreement.

All prices have been updated via comprehensive supplier engagement combined with AECOM’s market intelligence and a short-term inflationary forecast to ensure you have the most accurate cost data available. Activity descriptions and build ups have been updated to reflect changes to standard specifications, Building Regulation changes, emerging practices, and changing outputs.

• Budgeting: estimating principles, on-cost advice, method-related charges
• Resource costings: labour costs, plant costs, material prices
• Rapid cost information: approximate estimates, dayworks, cost indices
• Plant and labour allowances: production rates, outputs, man hour constants
• Detailed pricing: unit costs with full breakdown, or specialist prices, with advice on item coverage, waste allowances and comparative costs
• Incidental advice: tables and formulae, technical information, professional advice

Table of Contents:

• 1. General
• 2. Oncosts and Profit
• 3. Cost Indices and Location Factors
• 4. Resources
• 5. Approximate Estimating
• 6. Unit Costs – Civil Engineering Works
• 7. Unit Costs – Highway Works
• 8. Daywork
• 9. Professional Fees
• 10. Outputs
• 11. Useful Addresses for Further information
• 12. Tables and Memoranda

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