Costs | Features | Building

Recreation building - Gross internal floor area 2100 m2 - 1970s design
Location	Item	Quantity	Rate	Total £	Priority £ - High	Priority £ - Medium
Entrance lobby	Disabled parking bays with dropped kerb:
	Disabled parking bay	2	750	1,500	1,500	–
	Dropped kerb	2	200	400	400	–
	Sign on pole	2	120	240	240	–
	Provide handrails and balustrade to side of ramp	3 m	200	600	600	–
	Provide kerb to side of ramp	3 m	50	150	150	–
	Paint bollards to improve contrast	5	30	150	150	–
	Take up and relay broken paving	100 m2	30	3,000	3,000	–
	Lay new footpath	30 m2	50	1,500	1,500	–
	Paint high contrast bands around columns	57 m	10	570	570	–
	Provide new automatic doors	4	8,000	32,000	32,000	–
	Provide paved access to sports grounds	200 m2	30	6,000	6,000	–
	Paint ramp to indicate landing	5 m	10	50	–	50
Reception	Lower section of reception desk	1	1,500	1,500	1,500	–
	Provide locational signage	10	15	150	150	–
	Provide tactile signage generally	6	50	300	300	–
	Remove existing portable noticeboard	2	50	100	100	–
	Provide new permanently fixed noticeboard	2	200	400	400	–
Fitness room	Move equipment to ensure circulation space	1	100	100	100	–
Swimming pool	Line marking to edge of pool	200 m	10	2,000	2,000	–
Catering	Lower kitchen base unit	1	500	500	500	–
	Replace carpet to improve contrast	45 m2	25	1,130	1,130	–
	Replace cupboard doors with sliding doors	1	100	100	100	–
	Provide armless chairs to viewing area	4	200	800	800	–
	Provide lower kitchen unit for microwave	2	500	1,000	1,000	–
Changing area	Provide accessible facilities to public and staff
	male and female changing rooms:
	Convert toilet for disabled	4	2,500	10,000	10,000	–
	Shower cubicle with floor drainage and pull–down seat	4	4,000	16,000	16,000	–
	Changing cubicle	4	1,000	4,000	4,000	–
Signage	Improve signage throughout whole building	50	15	750	750	–
Internal doors	Provide new single doorsets including enlarge
	existing structural opening	6	1,350	8,100	8,100	–
	Replace existing pairs of double doorsets with
	new 1.5 doorsets	8	600	4,800	–	4,800
	Enlarge existing single door opening and
	provide new door	1	1,100	1,100	1,100	–
Staircases	Provide new internal stairs	1	22,500	22,500	–	22,500
Fire exits	Provide new ramps to fire exits	6	500	3,000	–	3,000
Lift	Provide new two-storey lift	1	70,000	70,000	–	70,000
	Subtotal for recommendations in access report				94,140	100,350
	Add preliminaries @ 20%				18,830	20,070
	Subtotal				112,970	120,420
	Add contingencies @ 15%				16,950	18,060
	Subtotal				129,920	138,480
	Above excludes professional fees and VAT

Flooring costs: Finishes, upper floors and lower-floor structures
Indicative inclusive rates for various types of floor finishes and structures, representing average contract rates in February 2004. Costs exclude screeds. Ranges reflect specification, quantity and regional price differences.
Finishes
Description	unit	Cost range £
Access floors
150 mm high raised access flooring	m2	35–45
Screeds
50 mm thick cement sand screed	m2	12–18
Ceramic tiling
Vitrified ceramic floor tiles with coved skirting	m2	35–55
Timber flooring
22 mm thick Hardwood flooring, tongued and grooved, underlay	m2	65–85
Rubber flooring
4mm studded rubber flooring including edge details	m2	35–45
Plastic tiling/sheeting
2.5 mm slip resistant vinyl flooring including edge details	m2	25–35
2 mm thick anti–static vinyl flooring including edge details	m2	30–40
Lino
2.5 mm thick linoleum flooring including edge details	m2	22–30
Carpet tiling/sheeting
Carpet tiles	m2	18–25
Carpet, manmade including underlay	m2	20–30
Carpet, 70% wool including underlay	m2	30–40
Skirtings
Softwood skirting	m	5–8
Hardwood skirting	m	10–12
Entrance matting
Entrance matting with aluminium frame	m2	250–450
Composition block flooring
Sprung composition block flooring	m2	65–75
Upper floor structures
Reinforced concrete slab on permanent metal decking	m2	35–45
Prestressed precast concrete plank flooring	m2	35–45
Precast concrete beam with block infills	m2	35–45
Precast concrete composite floor with structural screed	m2	55–70
Softwood suspended floor, joists, insulation and boarding	m2	35–50
Lower floor structures
Thermal insulation below ground floor slabs
Rigid foam insulation board, 50 mm thick	m2	7–9
Acoustic insulation to timber upper floors
Glass wool insulation laid across battens, 25 mm thick	m2	6–8