BCIS Comprehensive Building Price Book 2023 - 40th edition

An essential tool for businesses working in construction. The Comprehensive Building price book, comprising major and minor works datasets, provides fully priced standard estimates for projects with a value up to around £3.5 million in major works and £1 million in minor works.

BCIS Comprehensive Building Price Book 2023 – 40th edition

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An essential tool for businesses working in construction. The Comprehensive Building price book, comprising major and minor works datasets, provides fully priced standard estimates for projects with a value up to around £3.5 million in major works and £1 million in minor works.

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The dataset in this price book is available online in our Schedule of Rates

To see the additional benefits of our online version and how it works, you can request a demonstration.

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This comprehensive price book contains both major and minor works datasets, each with more than 26,800 rates and more than 10,000 resources.

With building costs varying greatly between the trades, this guide is essential for businesses working in construction today.

Each trade section includes unit rates with build-ups for average labour, plant and material costs. Rates can be further refined using location factors within the UK.

Delivery: 5-7 working days

Published: October 2022

Fully reviewed and updated labour, plant and material costs to reflect the realistic and competitive pricing levels predominant in the construction industry.

Among almost 500 new rates for 2023, additions to the datasets include sustainable items seeing increased popularity in response to efforts to reduce carbon emissions and changes to building regulations.

What’s new in the 2023 edition:

  • Low carbon sustainable masonry – straw bale
  • Kiln dried C24 regularised treated timber in the Woodwork section
  • Heat pump system – air source
  • Integrated electric vehicle charging socket
  • Organic, designer colour, Feng Shui, emulsion paints in the Painting and Decorating section
  • Permeable block paving

Labour rates in the major works dataset incorporate the latest wage agreements from the CIJC, JIB-PMES and the Electrotechnical JIB. In minor works, the latest agreements from BATJIC, JIB-PMES and the Electrotechnical JIB are used.

Material supply prices and plant hire charges are current at 2Q2022.

Trade sections:

  • Demolitions
  • Excavations and Earthworks
  • Piling and Diaphragm Walling
  • Concrete Work
  • Brickwork and Blockwork
  • Underpinning
  • Rubble Walling
  • Masonry
  • Asphalt Work
  • Roofing
  • Woodwork
  • Structural Steelwork / Mezzanine Flooring
  • Metalwork
  • Plumbing and Engineering Installations
  • Electrical Installations
  • Floor, Wall and Ceiling Finishes
  • Glazing
  • Painting and Decorating
  • Drainage
  • Fencing
  • External Works

Further sections include BCIS Quarterly Building Costs per sq metre and Approximate Estimating.

The price book also includes guidance on factoring in regional variations, preliminaries and daywork, incorporating site overheads, and professional services information.

To download a sample of major works, click here:

BCIS Comprehensive Price Book - Major Works

To download a sample of minor works, click here: