Manage your business costs with Rawlinsons

Writer: Kate Calacouras

Businesses in the construction industry can not afford to make uneducated assumptions about the final cost of a project in 2023.

With inflation soaring, and supply chain issues still hampering parts of the sector, it is crucial businesses quote appropriately to ensure they can cover their costs, without pricing themselves out of work.

Rawlinsons publications provide comprehensive pricing guides so those in the construction industry can feel confident in their business decisions.

For the past 41 years Rawlinsons have provided this cost data, by carefully evaluating local and global conditions that are likely to affect prices of materials.

The specialist publications provide an essential guide for builders, architects, engineers, project managers, estimators, valuers and developers, with regional indices for all states included.

The easy-to-follow guide includes cost data structured to follow the design stages of a project from initial feasibility cost estimates based on a $/m2 rate for different types of projects, through to detailed Bill of Quantities trade pricing and everything in between.

Rawlisons Director Niall McAree said the guide is helping businesses accurately price the cost of materials, and manage labour costs, which is difficult in a tight market.

“Numerous users have advised that they have used our cost guides to cross check pricing from sub-contractors, and benchmark their own quotes as a risk mitigating strategy.

“It has been increasingly hard to get subcontractor quotations over the past few years so having a comprehensive and detailed cost guide available at all times has proved indispensable.”

The 2023 publications include the Rawlinsons

Australian Construction Handbook 2023 for large and medium projects, the Rawlinsons Construction Cost Guide 2023 for projects up to $1.5m, and the Rawlinsons Process Engineering Handbook, which is a reference guide for those involved in oil and gas, mining, and process engineering.

The books are available in print or digital formats, and each purchase includes quarterly updates, outlining price fluctuations in the industry along with exclusive market insights for each state.

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