Cost model: Museums | Features

Overall building GFA 6,000 m²
Exhibition GFA 2,500 m²
	Total Cost £	£/m² Total GFA	£/m² Exhibition GFA
Setworks	2,000,000	333.33	800
Construction of walls, ceilings and other supporting work to display objects not in showcases, bases for showcases, projector housings, pivoting doors and moving benches, lightboxes and setwork electrics
Show cases	450,000	75	180
Cases freestanding or on plinths including fibre optics
Mounts	200,000	33.33	80
Mounts in showcases and setworks displays and for separate heavy objects
Interactives	125,000	20.83	50
Electronic and manual interactive units
Graphics	250,000	41.67	100
Artwork and production of the graphics displays
Electrical and lighting	425,000	70.83	170
Electrical distribution, lighting and power throughout exhibition
Audio visual hardware	1,100,000	183.33	440
AV equipment serving all units including all computers racking and controls
Audio visual softward	1,000,000	166.67	400
Writing and translating al naratives included with the displays
Flooring	85,000	14.17	34
Floor covering to the new build section of the exhibition
General items	135,000	22.5	54
Installation of large objects (e.g. installations and artwork) builder's work (chases), seating (chairs) etc
Preliminaries	900,000	150	360
Fit-out contractor’s preliminaries
Total	6,670,000	1,111.67	2668

Regional factors
All regions	Location factors
Inner London	1.08
Greater London	0.99
South-east (excluding Greater London)	1.00
South-west	0.94
East Midlands	0.90
West Midlands	0.89
East Anglia	0.94
Yorkshire and Humberside	0.93
North-west	0.91
Northern	0.93
Scotland	0.89
Wales	0.87
Northern Ireland	0.72