• Helps to determine what a building should cost in the future based on historical and current projects.
• Control project costs pre, during and post construction
• Benchmarking; It gives a view of the market and bid comparisons to help ensure that sum costs are in the right ball park.
• Predict the profitability of your project more confidently.
• Expand your horizon. If your firm focuses on a particular sector, BCIS can provide you with a wider view of the market.
• Provides assurance and gives your quotes/tenders credibility. BCIS is reliable; our data is not subject to commercial bias. It is the only available source of independent data in the UK.
• The tool enables forecasting five years in the future at a UK regional level

• Over 20,000 cost analyses
• Twelve sets of Indices
• Average £/m2 building prices
• Construction Duration Calculator
• Wage agreements
• Dayworks rates
• Schedule of Basic Plant Charges
• Contract percentages
• Tender Price Studies
• Duration calculator
• Tender Price Index (Regional)
• Retail Prices
• Briefing

• Quantity surveyors
• Contractors
• Building Surveyors
• Consultancy
• Local/Central Government
• Housing Associations
• Universities
• Commercial Property Surveyors
• Facilities Managers
• Estate Agents
• Loss Adjusters
• Insurance Brokers
• Architects
• Civil Engineers
• Developers
• Planners
• Valuers
• Actuaries
• BIM Professionals

• BCIS Cost Indices
• BCIS Tender Price Indices (TPI)
• Building Cost Indices
• BCIS Regional Price Indices
• BCIS Output Indices
• BCIS Trade Indices
• Construction New Orders
• Construction Output
• House Prices
• Housing Starts and Completions
• Resource Indices
• Retail Prices

“…whenever there is a change in the market, we are able to adapt…”

“Until just over two years ago we were focused on one client, working with the British Government on their schools and hospital programme. But the cuts introduced by Government meant we had to diversify our market into the private sector. We had no information for residential or refurbishment projects, but the BCIS database gave us everything we needed. Now, whenever there is a change in the market, we are able to adapt. It is one of the benefits of subscribing to BCIS.”

Benoit Midol, Estimating Manager
Bouygues UK

“This has helped the P21+ programme exceed its 14% construction cost reduction target as part of the Government Construction Strategy…”

“The Department was keen to ensure the wealth of data under the P21+ programme reaches the widest audience possible. The BCIS on-line portal provides this information in a recognised format and importantly has been sense checked by the BCIS as part of the publication process. Availability of cost data supports budget development, benchmarking and cost management for new and developing healthcare projects. This has helped the P21+ programme exceed its 14% construction cost reduction target as part of the Government Construction Strategy.”

David Low
Construction Procurement Team
Department of Health

“…the BCIS database was able to provide what we couldn’t manage ourselves in-house…”

“I needed to justify £6m of spend; by using the BCIS database I was able to use the up-to-date benchmarking data, to adjust the date of the build and use the location factors to validate the difference in cost from building on a green field site in the North, against demolishing and reconstruction on a site in the South, over a year later. The data we require is quite specialist yet the BCIS database was able to provide what we couldn’t manage ourselves in-house.”

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