This tool helps you prepare cost plans, provide early cost advice to clients and benchmark costs for both commercial and residential buildings.

• Tender Price Indices for building generally and for the sectors of the industry
• Output Price Indices for building generally and for the sectors of the industry
• Resource Cost Indices for building generally and for the main types of construction

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This tool helps you provide insurance reinstatement cost assessments, early cost advice, development appraisals or valuations based on current construction prices

• BCIS Cost Indices
• BCIS Tender Price Indices
• Miscellaneous Indices
• Retail Prices
• BCIS General Building Cost Index
• BCIS All-in TPI
• BCIS Private Commercial TPI
• BCIS Private Industrial TPI
• BCIS Private Sector TPI
• BCIS Public Sector TPI
• ABI/BCIS Housing Rebuilding Cost Index
• All Items excluding Mortgage Interest Payments
• Consumer Prices Index
• General Index of Retail Prices (All items)

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This tool provides you rapid access to reinstatement costs, to support decisions when insuring domestic property.

• Provide up-to-date reinstatement costs to minimise the risk of over or under-insurance on domestic properties
• Give you peace of mind that you're benchmarking reinstatement costs in line with the latest Building Regulations
• Tailor your assessment to account for specific property features
• Independently assess reinstatement costs with the use of trusted BCIS data

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This tool provides access to building pricing information quickly and accurately. The independent data source for estimating costs. An excellent online alternative to BCIS Price Books.

• Alterations & Refurbishment
• Major Works
• Minor Works
• Minor Works SMM7
• SMM7
• Painting & Decorating

Other datasets sold separately from the BCIS Schedule of Rates package.

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• BCIS Comprehensive building price book
• BCIS Alterations and refurbishment price book
• BCIS Guide to estimating for small works
• BCIS Painting & decorating price book
• BCIS building maintenance price book
• BCIS Dilapidations price book

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This tool may be used as a contractual basis for reimbursement of increased costs for the contracts let on all PSA Schedules of Rates or other forms of maintenance contracts as well as assisting in updating estimates.

• Daywork Rates
• Indices for Maintenance Costs

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This tool provides a comprehensive, detailed and easy to use method of measuring cost movement for building and civil engineering. Widely used in the construction and infrastructure sector to help fairly allocate risk between the client and sub-contractors

These are monthly indices used in conjunction with the Formula Methods of adjusting building, specialist engineering and civil engineering contracts, to allow for changes in the costs of labour, plant and materials.

They are also familiarly known as either the NEDO, Baxter or Osborne Indices and are
widely used on Variation of Price Contracts.

• Building series
• Specialist Engineering Formulae series
• Civil Engineering Formulae series
• Highways Term Maintenance Price Adjustment Formulae series
• Structural Steelwork Formulae series

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This tool gives you access up-to-date Daywork Rates.

Rates are given for the major trades in England, Scotland and Wales.

Includes new rates for 47 grades of operative covering the following trades:

• Builders (6 grades)
• Plumbers - main grades (7 grades)
• Plumbers - apprentices (8 grades)
• Heating and ventilating (11 grades)
• Electricians - main grades (12 grades)
• Electricians - apprentices (3 grades) (Scotland only)

Each grade is calculated in accordance with the appropriate 'Definition of Prime Cost of Daywork' agreed between RICS and the Contracting Organisations. Plumbers rates are based on a formula agreed between RICS and the plumbing contracting organisations in England, Wales and Scotland.

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A basic tool of the trade for anyone involved in estimating, cost checking and fee negotiation on public sector construction works including roadsDaywork Rates

BCIS Index Series

PUBSEC Indices

• Building Tender Price Indices
• Location Study of Building Tender Price Indices
• Function Study of Building Tender Price Indices
• Forecasts are provided for the PUBSEC TPI for Non-Housing

• Road Construction Tender Price Indices
• All Construction Resource Cost Indices
• Building Non-Housing Resource Cost Indices
• House Building Resource Cost Indices
• Road Construction Resource Cost Indices
• Infrastructure Resource Cost Indices
• Building Maintenance Non-Housing Resource Cost Indices
• House Building Maintenance Resource Cost Indices
• Projected Formula VOP Indices

BIS Index Series
As part of the service RICS publish the ‘new generation’ of the BIS Indices when available.

These indices cover:

• ‘Input Cost Indices’
• ‘Output Prices Indices’

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This tool helps you value plant and other fixed assets with consistency.

• Agricultural and forestry machinery
• Air and spacecraft and related machinery
• Aluminium
• Batteries and accumulators
• Bearings and gears
• Carpets and rugs
• Central heating radiators and boilers
• Communication equipment
• Computers and peripheral equipment
• Consumer electronics
• Control valves
• Copper
• Curtains and blinds
• Electric domestic appliances
• Electric lighting equipment
• Electric motors, generators and transformers
• Electrical distribution and control apparatus
• Electrical equipment (not included elsewhere)
• Engines and turbines (excluding aircraft, vehicle and cycle engines)
• Fabricated metal products (not included elsewhere)
• Fluid power equipment
• Food, beverage and tobacco processing machinery
• General-purpose machinery (not included elsewhere)
• Installation services of industrial machinery and equipment
• Iron and steel
• Irradiation, electromedical and electrotherapeutic equipment
• Lifting and handling equipment
• Medical and dental instruments and supplies
• Metal structures and parts of structures
• Metal tanks, reservoirs and containers
• Mining, quarrying and construction machinery
• Motor vehicles
• Office and shop furniture
• Office machinery and equipment (excluding computers and peripheral equipment)
• Plastics and rubber machinery
• Pumps and compressors
• Railway locomotives and rolling stock
• Special purpose machinery (not included elsewhere)
• Steam generators (excluding central heating hot water boilers)
• Steel tubes, pipes, hollow profiles and related fittings
• Trailers and semi-trailers
• Ventilation and cooling equipment

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