Spon's Construction Cost and Price Indices Handbook

Description

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.

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.