Publisher's Synopsis
Spon's Landscape and External Works Price Book 1998 offers the only comprehensive source of detailed landscape and external works 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. This edition has been organized in accordance with the Common Arrangement and SMM7. Material and measured work prices covering: contract items from site clearance to planting; 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 full coverage of external construction work: walls, fences, barriers, bollards, steps, carparks, paving etc. and prices for land and surface water drainage and piped services; playgrounds, sports 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 legislatio A full inde;The book is updated free every 3 months until the next year's edition.
