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| b - Additional costs | |
| Option | £/m² gifa |
| Short bore piled foundations to columns for use in poor soil conditions | £155 |
| Substitute composite roof panels for built-up panels | £12 |
| Substitute composite wall panels for built-up panels | £25 |
| Using masonry dado walling instead of built up cladding at bottom of wall | £30 |
| Two-hour fire walls to boundary | £40/m² of boundary wall area |
| Permeable paving instead of normal paving | £15/gifa of building |
| Geocellular storage | £30/gifa of building |
| Add ordinary hazard sprinkler system | £25 |
| Upgrade sprinkler system from ordinary to high hazard | £12 |
| Add high level radient heating | £24 |
| Add external-mounted CCTV camera, cabling and TV monitor to each unit | £1,250/unit |
| c - Location factors | |
| The cost breakdown is based on price levels current in the South-east and should be adjusted by the following location factors for schemes in other regions: | |
| Inner London | 1.04 |
| Outer London | 1.01 |
| South-west | 0.95 |
| East Midlands | 0.91 |
| West Midlands | 0.93 |
| East Anglia | 0.96 |
| Yorkshire & Humberside | 0.96 |
| North-west | 0.93 |
| Northern | 0.95 |
| Scotland | 0.95 |
| Wales | 0.90 |
| Northern Ireland | 0.74 |