2025 Light Commercial Costs Book

Unlock accurate and reliable cost data with the 2024 Light Commercial Costs Book with RSMeans Data, your essential guide for estimating and budgeting light commercial construction projects. Tailored specifically for professionals in the construction industry, this book provides detailed cost breakdowns, covering everything from materials and labor to equipment and overhead.

With the 2024 Light Commercial Costs Book, you gain access to up-to-date pricing for a wide range of commercial construction projects, including small office buildings, retail spaces, warehouses, and more. The book includes region-specific data, making it easy to adjust your estimates based on local conditions. Whether you are a contractor, architect, or project manager, this resource is invaluable for ensuring your light commercial projects are completed on time and within budget.

• Ability to evaluate alternative assemblies in the early stages of design/planning
• More than 15,500 unit costs to ensure you have the most current prices you need when you need them

Supplemental Information Included: Equipment Rentals, Crews, Historical Cost Indexes, Location Factors, Reference Tables, Change Orders, Project Costs, Square Foot Project Size Modifier, Abbreviations

Level of Cost Detail: Unit Costs, Assemblies, Commercial Models

Light Commercial Cost Book With RSMeans Data is ideal for smaller commercial properties that are less than four stories and cover about 25,000 square feet or less, such as small offices, banks, fast-food restaurants, auto repair shops, carwashes and specialty medical facilities. With nearly 16,000 unit cost line items across 24 CSI MasterFormat Divisions, this dataset is a good source for cost estimating new and renovation projects.

• Tasks such as demolition, remediation, partitions, windows and doors can be found in this dataset.
• With this dataset, you have the ability to evaluate alternative assemblies in the early stages of design/planning.
• Unit costs are organized in CSI MasterFormat 2018.  
• Assemblies are organized in UniFormat II.

Supplemental Information Included: Equipment rental costs, crew listings, Historical Cost Indexes, location factors, reference tables, change order best practices, project size modifiers, labor trade rates including Overhead and profit and common abbreviations.

Level of Cost Detail: Unit Costs, Assemblies, Commercial Square Foot Costs

Labor Type: Open Shop