Spon's Construction Cost and Price Indices Handbook

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.
Designed especially with the needs of quantity surveyors in mind, but also as a useful reference work for all who have a need for information about movements in the costs of building and other construction work, this handbook presents all major series of index numbers which measure changes in construction costs and prices in the UK. Over 90 series are represented, including over 80 series which are currently compiled and 10 historical series extending back to the first half of the 19th century. The available series are classified systematically by type and each series is described by a standard format. The index numbers themselves are presented in both tabular and graphical form. The book has been placed within a framework in which the theoretical and practical problems of measuring construction costs and price movements over time are discussed and the practical application of the indices which are available are explained in detail.