Spon's Irish Construction Price Book (Hardcover)

The construction industry in Ireland is enjoying a boom in activity in the late 1990s, the impact of which is to create an atmosphere of uncertainty among consultants and contractors over the ever-increasing cost of construction. Adding to the uncertainty in pricing is the recent change of the late 1990s in method of measurement introduced in Ireland by the Construction Industry Federation (CIF) and the Society of Chartered Surveyors (SCS). The new method of measurement, entitled Agreed Rules of Measurement (ARM), calls for a new format in bill of quantities style and descriptive content and is a compromise document which follows neither SMM6 nor SMM7. An opportunity now exists for the introduction of a price book specifically formulated in accordance with the new method of measurement.