This comprehensive handbook explains, clearly and with many examples how construction cost and price indices are compiled and how they can be used by the estimator in tender analysis, pricing and price adjustment, cost planning
and forecasting. The book contains over 100 tables and graphs and all the main indices are covered individually with full details of their movements, including some long-run series going back over 100 years. It is important to have an understanding of how indices are compiled and the authors have considered the problems involved in measuring construction costs and price trends and the different methodological approaches to measurement that may be made.
By:
M C Fleming,
B A Tysoe
Imprint: Spon Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
Spine: 22mm
Weight: 703g
ISBN: 9780419153306
ISBN 10: 0419153306
Pages: 384
Publication Date: 21 February 1991
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
General/trade
,
Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Preface. Acknowledgements. Abbreviations and acronyms. Introduction. Part A: Construction indices: uses and methodology. Uses of construction indices. Problems and methods of measurements. Part B: Currently compiled construction indices. Introduction. Output price indices. Tender price indices. DOE public sector building tender price index, 1975; PSA QSSD index of building tender prices, 1968; BCIS tender price indices, 1974; DOE road construction tender price indices, 1970; DOE price index of public sector housebuilding (PIPSH), 1964; Scottish Office housing tender price index, 1970; D L & E tender price index, 1966; Cost indices. BCIS building cost indices, 1971. Spon's cost indices. Building cost index, 1966; Mechanical services cost index, 1966; Electrical services cost index, 1966; Constructed civil engineering cost index, 1970; Constructed landscaping cost index, 1976; 'Building' housing costs index, 1973; Scottish Office building cost index, 1970; ABI/BCIS house rebuilding cost index, 1978; Association of Cost Engineers - erected plant cost indices, 1958; BMI maintenance cost indices, 1970; PSA APSAB cost indeices, 1970; Comparison and review of current indices. Part C: Historical construction indices. Introduction. Historical cost and price indices. Jones's selling price of building index, 1845-1922; Saville's selling price of building index, 1923-1939; Maiwald's indices of cost for building and other constuction, 1945-1938; Redern's indices of costs for building and works and for housing, 1839/1850-1953; CSO CCA index of costs for new building works, 1888-1956; Board of Inland Revenue (BIR) index of building costs, 1896-1956. Venning Hope cost of building index, 1914-1975; Banister Fletcher's index of the comparative cost of building, 1920-1939; BRS measured work index, London area, 1939-1969 Q2; DOE cost of new construction (CNC) index, 1949 Q1-1980 Q1. Comparison and reviw of historical indices. Bibliography. Appendices. Glossary. Index.
M. C. Fleming is Professor of Economics at Loughborough University. B. A. Tysoe is a Chartered Quantity Surveyor and Estates Directorate at the Department of Health.
