2026 Light Commercial Costs Book

The 2026 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