2025 Open Shop Building Construction Costs Book

The 2025 Open Shop Building Construction Costs Book with RSMeans data incorporates the latest costs to accurately budget and estimate new commercial and residential construction, renovation work, change orders and cost engineering used in Non-Union shops and is aimed at estimating commercial and industrial projects or large multi-family housing projects costing $3,500,000 and up.

• Develop benchmark prices for change orders.
• Fill in gaps on preliminary estimates and budgets.
• Estimate complex projects.
• Substantiate invoices on contracts
• Price ADA related renovations

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

Level of Cost Detail: Unit Costs

The 2025 Open Shop Building Construction Costs Book With RSMeans Data incorporates the latest costs to accurately budget and estimate new commercial and residential construction, renovation work, Change Order Best Practices and cost engineering used in Non-Union shops. Aimed at estimating commercial and industrial projects or large multi-family housing projects costing $3.5 million and up.

• Develop benchmark prices for Change Order Best Practices.
• Fill in gaps on preliminary estimates and budgets.
• Substantiate invoices on contracts.
• Price ADA related renovations.

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

Level of Cost Detail: Unit Costs

Labor Type: Open Shop