This year’s book has a strong approximate estimates section, with most measured works items also presented as composite items. Now in its 34th edition, offers the only comprehensive source of information for detailed external works and landscape costs. It covers all the items to be found in hard and soft landscape contracts, and forms an indispensable reference book for quantity surveyors, landscape architects, contractors and local authority managers – essential for compiling estimates, specifications, bills of quantities and works schedules – no matter what the size of the project being undertaken. Use the access code inside the front cover of the book to get set up with internet access to this 2015 edition until the end of December 2015. We now provide Spon’s Online, a versatile and powerful , which replaces the estimating software and ebook of recent years. The book now uses a combination of NRM1 and NRM2 as the measurement standards. This edition includes the following new and significantly developed items