Comprehensive building price book

- major works -2021

thirty-eighth edition

PREFACE

PREFACE BCIS COMPREHENSIVE BUILDING PRICE BOOKS 2021 38th EDITION Preface to the 38th edition The unit rates in this, the latest edition of the BCIS Comprehensive Building Price Book, are compiled from over 500,000 price elements. Each unit rate and element has been thoroughly revised and updated to reflect the realistic and competitive pricing levels predominant within the industry; new materials and specifications have been incorporated where applicable. The latest available amendments to Professional information, Average Building Prices, Town and Country Planning Regulations Fees for Applications and Deemed Applications, Building Regulations Prescribed fees etc. and Cost Limits and Allowances, reproduced by kind permission of the Professional and Public Bodies, have been incorporated. Information and guidance has also been included with regard to land fill tax and land decontamination. Users' attention is drawn to the fact that all prices in the BCIS Databases exclude VAT and also exclude overhead allowances and profit. MATERIAL PRICES Material prices used in this book are based on national average best trade prices. The base date used for these materials costs is the second quarter 2020. LABOUR RATES The Major Works Estimating Price Book volume is based on the Construction Industry Joint Council wage agreement. The Minor Works Estimating Price Book volume is based on the Building and Allied Trades Joint Industrial Council wage agreement. The wage rates agreed by the Joint Industry Board for Plumbing and Mechanical Engineering Services in England and Wales have been used in both volumes. The wage rates agreed by the Joint Industry Board for the Electrical Contracting Industry in England and Wales have been used in both volumes. PLUS RATES No allowance has been made within the labour prices for plus rates. However, if local economic circumstances dictate that such enhancements are appropriate, then a "plus rate" may be easily introduced into the calculation. This philosophy applies to CIJC, BATJIC and the JIBPMES wage rate calculations. We would recommend that users study the introduction, Section A, to familiarise themselves with the basis for pricing this year. PARTNERING FOR EXCELLENCE BCIS and Arcadis share many beliefs and ideals in the provision of quality information and service to all our clients and we are proud of our partnership Arcadis LLP Arcadis is the leading global design and consultancy firm for natural and built assets. Arcadis has access to approximately 28,000 professionals worldwide operating in over 40 countries. Working across a wide range of market sectors, Arcadis helps its clients create exceptional and sustainable outcomes throughout the lifecycle of their natural and built assets. For more information visit http://www.arcadis.com In this edition Arcadis has assisted BCIS with items on Land Decontamination Costs (see Section 6 page 7) and Asbestos in Buildings (see Section 8 page 1). The partnership will bring extended valuable information in future publications. Nang Vo Kham Murng, MRICS, MSc, BEng BCIS Head of Resource Data RICS

AA INTRODUCTION AA

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INTRODUCTION

BCIS COMPREHENSIVE BUILDING PRICE BOOK 2021

AA GENERAL

001 Basis of Pricing

002 The aim of this database is to provide Building Contractors and Consultants with a comprehensive GUIDE to the current (net cost) unit prices for building work whilst enabling the user to check and ensure that his selected rates are competitive.

003 In the Major Works volume the prices are based upon a building of two or three storeys of the Administrative or Recreational type, such as Offices, Libraries, Community Centres and Sports Halls, Architect designed and supervised with a tender price in the range £1,500,000 - £3,500,000, providing reasonable quantities of work in all trades.

004 There is also a separate Minor Works variant of the Comprehensive Price Book available, in which prices are based upon a contract of extensions and alterations to an existing building, two or three storeys high, having a tender price of about £1,000,000, requiring relatively small quantities of materials and labour.

005 This database has been created on a nationally averaged 'best price' basis. For an indication of regional differentials, please refer to sub-section AF - 'Regional Variations'. These factors should be considered if local rates of labour and material are not known at the time of estimating.

006 The database prices represent the net cost of labour, plant and materials, WITHOUT additions for site overheads (examples of which are shown separately in section B - Preliminaries) and WITHOUT additions for off-site office overheads or profit, as such additions fluctuate with market conditions and company policy

007 Prices for work which is normally executed under the Builder's direct control, whether employing in-house labour or labour only sub-contractors, are broken down into 'Net Labour', 'Net Plant' and 'Net Materials', with the aggregate of these separate prices given in bold type under the heading of 'NET UNIT PRICE'.

008 Work normally undertaken by specialist sub-contract firms has been priced by specialist firms and the prices given are total 'Net Unit Prices' inclusive of labour, plant, materials and the specialists' overheads and profit. The prices are inclusive of 2.5% cash discount to the Builder but are exclusive of the Builder's own overheads and profit, general and special attendance.

009 It must be stressed that the prices in the book are GUIDE prices. Quotations for materials and specialists' work should be obtained for particular projects if keen, competitive rates are to be established.

010 Regional price variations, qualities and quantities of materials and work, availability of skilled labour, location of sites and individual project requirements all have a bearing on prices for building work.

011 Descriptions

012 The order and descriptions of work items generally follow those within the Sixth Edition of the Standard Method of Measurement for Building Works (SMM6), but the Database has been structured for utilisation with any Standard Method.

013 Value Added Tax

014 The prices exclude Value Added Tax.

015 Covid-19

The supply prices of materials and plant hire charges are based on the data collected during the second quarter of 2020 and in some circumstances will need to be adjusted in the short-term for the effect of the Covid-19 Lockdown. Constants for labour are based on working practices common in the first quarter of 2020 and do not reflect the effect of implementing Covid-19 Safe Operating Procedures and again, in the short-term an adjustment may be necessary to reflect changes in productivity. Users should consider including an adjustment for the Covid-19 impact for estimates based on BCIS Schedule or Rates and Price Books unit rate data.

The Covid-19 restrictions and the implementation of compliant Safe Operating Procedures may also affect Site Overheads, potentially bringing about lengthening and thickening of preliminaries due to extended contract periods, the increased cost of supervision, additional welfare facilities and provision of PPE. Off-site office overheads and profit may also need to be adjusted to reflect market conditions brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic such as reduced demand, reduced availability of resources, increased overheads and/or reduced profit.

In light of current uncertainty over price movements, we will issue an in-year update to help our users ensure their estimates are informed with the latest data. This update to Tender Price movements, summary of labour, material and plant input costs will be made available to customers who purchase price books and/or subscribe to BCIS Schedule of rates online.

AB BASIC MATERIAL PRICES

001 Base date of prices

002 The supply prices of materials, as shown in 'Basic Prices of Materials' at the beginning of each work section were current during the second quarter of 2020.

003 Trade and quantity discounts

004 The supply prices of materials generally are Trade prices delivered to site unless otherwise stated. In the 'Major Works' volume, the prices are for full loads.

005 Waste factors

006 The percentages added to materials are generally for waste in use, but these are enhanced for such materials as cement, sand, plaster, etc. for general handling losses.

007 Unloading Costs

008 Where applicable, the cost of site labour and plant in unloading materials has been shown separately and added to the delivered supply prices. Surcharges for returnable crates and pallets have been excluded from the supply prices of the materials.

AC INTRODUCTION AC

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AC PLANT COSTS 001 Plant hire charges are applicable to the second quarter of 2020 and are typical rates obtained from plant hire companies. The hire charges for plant show hourly

rates which have been calculated, based upon WEEKLY hire charges, for the purposes of Major Works. At the time of publication prices for plant hire were very competitive and Contractors are advised to obtain competitive quotations at the time of preparing tenders.

002 Idle time 003 Allowances have been made against the hire charges to allow for idle or standing time so that the hourly constants shown in the build-up of prices are for the

actual working time of the plant. 004 Operators 005 Where weekly hire charges for mechanical equipment are exclusive of operators, the costs of operators are shown separately and are calculated in accordance

with the build-up of labour rates shown in Sub-Section AD. 006 Daily or hourly hire charges for mechanical equipment are inclusive of operators where indicated. 007 Fuel etc. 008 The hire charges for mechanical equipment exclude the provision of fuel but include maintenance and services charges. Unit rate build-ups include for fuel costs. AD LABOUR COSTS

001 Format 002 Labour costs have been calculated in accordance with the recommendations of the Code of Estimating Practice published by the Chartered Institute of Building. 003 Base date of pricing 004 Labour costs are based upon the operative rates of wages and allowances effective from 24th June 2019 for CIJC and effective from 6th January 2020 for

JIB and JIBPMES.

005 Hourly rates 006 Major Works have been based on CIJC pay scales, JIB pay scales and JIBPMES pay scales. Attention is drawn to these Bodies' varying interpretation of working

hours/weeks etc. 007 The calculation of hourly labour costs is set out in the following schedules. Users should compare the mode of calculation with their preferred practice before

applying any further adjustments. 008 Plus rates 009 An enhanced 'plus rate' may be inserted in the calculation to suit local labour market conditions. 010 Travelling allowances 011 As travelling allowances vary with the distance of building sites from the Builder's office they have been excluded from the calculation of the hourly labour costs.

Allowances for travelling time and/or expenses should be made in Preliminaries. 014 Overtime 015 The non-productive element in the overtime amounts to an average of 37 hours per operative per annum. 016 Other Emoluments 017 Tool and clothing allowances have been consolidated into the basic rate of pay with effect from 18th August 1997. 018 Calculation of hours worked per annum: Craft Operative and General Operative

(a) Summertime working: 30 weeks of British Summertime at 40.6 hours per week Monday to Friday hours hours hours 30 Weeks at 40.6 hours 1218.0 Less annual holidays (15 days) 121.8 public holidays ( 5 days) 40.6 162.4 1055.6 ----- ------ (b) Winter working: 22 weeks at 40.6 hours per week 22 Weeks at 40.6 hours 893.2 Less annual holidays ( 7 days) 56.8 public holidays ( 3 days) 24.4 Sick leave (8 days) 65.0 146.2 747.0 ----- ----- ------ Total Number of paid working hours during year 1802.6 Less Allowance for inclement weather (2%) 36.1 ------ TOTAL NUMBER OF PRODUCTIVE HOURS WORKED PER ANNUM 1766.6 ------

ROOFING

Basic Prices of Materials Supply Price

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Redland Rosemary machine made smooth face clay tiles, colour red, delivered to sites in the Greater London area:

M0346 plain tiles 578.25 5% - 2.24 609.52 1000 M0347 plain tile-and-a-half tiles 1157.69 5% - 3.92 1219.69 1000 M0348 hips, valleys and angle tiles 8.11 5% - - 8.52 Nr M0349 300 mm half round ridge tiles 8.11 5% - - 8.52 Nr M0350 red clay uni-angle ridge 7.81 5% - - 8.20 Nr M0351 450 mm capped angle ridge tiles 8.11 5% - - 8.52 Nr Protimised sawn softwood battens: M0361 36 x 22 mm 0.54 5% 0.01 - 0.58 m M0362 36 x 25 mm 0.54 5% 0.01 - 0.58 m M0363 36 x 36 mm 0.82 5% 0.02 - 0.88 m M0364 38 x 19 mm 0.54 5% 0.01 - 0.58 m M0365 38 x 25 mm 0.54 5% 0.01 - 0.58 m M0366 38 x 38 mm 0.82 5% 0.02 - 0.88 m M0367 44 x 25 mm 0.71 5% 0.01 - 0.76 m M0368 44 x 38 mm 1.05 5% 0.02 - 1.12 m Protimised sawn softwood ridge battens: M0380 50 x 20 mm 0.71 5% 0.01 - 0.76 m M0381 50 x 25 mm 0.71 5% 0.02 - 0.77 m M0382 50 x 30 mm 1.05 5% 0.02 - 1.12 m M0383 50 x 35 mm 1.05 5% 0.02 - 1.12 m M0384 50 x 40 mm 1.14 5% 0.03 - 1.23 m M0385 50 x 45 mm 1.14 5% 0.03 - 1.23 m M0386 50 x 50 mm 1.14 5% 0.03 - 1.23 m M0387 50 x 75 mm 1.47 5% 0.05 - 1.59 m M0388 50 x 100 mm 1.93 5% 0.07 - 2.10 m M0369 50 - 75 mm Galvanised nails for battens 3.16 10% - - 3.48 kg M0370 Hardened steel masonry nails 50 x 2.5 mm diameter 0.02 10% - - 0.02 Nr Underslating: M0371 Rubershield – Pro breathable membrane (50 m2 roll) 116.81 12.5% 1.31 - 132.89 Nr M0372 Zylex reinforced felt - standard (15 m2 roll) 38.52 12.5% 1.31 - 44.81 Nr M0373 Roofguard SB non-breathable membrane (45 m2 roll) 68.14 12.5% 1.31 - 78.13 Nr A0301 Portland cement delivered in bags 150.29 5% 13.14 - 171.60 tonne A0321 Building sand 24.43 10% - - 26.87 tonne M0379 Unibond PVA adhesive 3.50 10% - - 3.85 ltr Cartridge assisted fasteners (Hilti); for: M0455 75 mm material fixed to concrete NK72 S12 0.51 2.5% - - 0.52 Nr M0457 fixing metal straps to steel ENK19 512 0.35 2.5% - - 0.36 Nr M0458 cartridges (red) 0.25 2.5% - - 0.26 Nr M0480 Oxidised bitumen bond compound 45 kg keg 1.12 10% - - 1.23 kg M0483 Bitumen primer Ruberoid IKOpro, 5 ltr 6.24 - - - 6.24 ltr M0490 IKO Easyseal bitumen vapour control layer self adhesive - 15 m x 1 m roll 4.16 5% - - 4.37 m2 M0491 PU adhesive INSU-STIX for insulation boards 6.2 kg tub 5.85 5% - - 6.14 kg M0492 IKO premium Styrene-Butadiene-Styrene (SBS) torch-on roofing underlay

12 m x 1 m 300m2 pallet 4.01 5% - - 4.21 m2

M0493 IKO Ruberoid 4 kg app torch on roof capping sheet plain, glass based (pallet of 36)

3.05 5% - - 3.20 m2

M0494 IKO Ruberoid 4 kg app torch on roof capping sheet green, glass based (pallet of 36)

3.05 5% - - 3.20 m2

M0495 IKO TGX torch-on green mineral roof felt capping sheet, 8 m x 1 m roll 2.95 5% - - 3.09 m2 M0496 IKO Ruberoid Styrene-Butadiene-Styrene (SBS) turbo torch-on blue/grey roof

capping sheet, 8 m x 1 m 5.67 5% - - 5.96 m2

IKO Enerthem ALU PIR rigid insulation board 1200 x 2400 mm, clad both sides

with a multi-layer gastight aluminium complex:

M0497 50 mm thick 6.54 5% - - 6.87 m2 M0498 75 mm thick 9.24 5% - - 9.70 m2 M0499 100 mm thick 11.64 5% - - 12.22 m2 M0508 150 mm thick 16.79 5% - - 17.63 m2 M0509 Composite GRC checkerplate promenade tile (all colours), 300 x 300 mm 16.63 5% - - 17.46 m2 M0514 IKO Easyseal / Coldseal self-adhesive roofing felt primer, 25 Litres 5.93 5% - - 6.23 ltr M0565 IKO Easyseal / Coldseal self-adhesive roofing felt underlay, 8 m x 1 m 5.06 5% - - 5.31 m2 M0519 IKO Easyseal / Coldseal self-adhesive top sheet roofing felt, green mineral

finish, 6 m x 1 m 8.77 5% - - 9.20 m2

M0520 Fibreglass flat roofing kit, resin, catalyst, matting and ancillaries for 30 m2 13.67 5% - - 14.35 m2 M0538 Cromar GRP fibreglass Pro 25 resin, 20 kg, 25 litres 3.93 5% - - 4.13 m2 M0539 Flexitec 2020 chopped strand matting fibreglass 225g, 30m2 1.20 5% - - 1.26 m2 M0540 Fibreglass hardener, 1 litre, use 20 ml per kg 8.35 5% - - 8.77 ltr M0541 Fibreglass roofing, upstand fillet trim, 260 mm wide, 3 m length 4.95 5% - - 5.20 m M0542 Fibreglass roofing raised edging trim, 260 mm wide, 3 m length 4.60 5% - - 4.83 m M0543 Fibreglass roofing drip fascia, 200 mm wide, 3 m length 4.60 5% - - 4.83 m M0544 Fibreglass roofing flashing, 200 mm wide, 3 m length 4.60 5% - - 4.83 m M0545 EPDM rubber membrane, 1.1 mm thick 7.49 5% - - 7.86 m2 M0546 EPDM rubber membrane, 1.5 mm thick 9.32 5% - - 9.79 m2 M0547 PVCu gutter drip trim for EPDM roof systems, 2.5 m length 4.13 5% - - 4.33 m M0548 Metal wall flashing plastisol coated, 100 mm girth, including return, 2.5 m length 3.02 5% - - 3.18 m