Laxton*s Guide to Term Maintenance Contracts: For Schools and Colleges

Present Government policy on education involves removing responsibility for schools and colleges away from local authorities and placing it with the schools themselves. This means that individuals with little knowledge of finance or building maintenance
can suddenly find themselves having to administer annual maintenance budgets. This is generally done on an informal ad hoc (italics) basis, and the aim of this book is to establish more efficient and cost-effective procedures.


The first book of its kind, with the combined authority of Laxton's who have been publishing the market leading building price book 170 years, and Tweeds who are one of the UK's leading firms of Chartered Quantity Surveyors with a massive and constantly updated database of cost information, and specialist expertise in educational buildings.
Annual maintenance for most schools is about 20-50,000 pounds. Possibly a total of 1.5 billion.
Guidance on contract administration, preparation of budgets, checking tenders, professional fees, standard letters to contractors and technical terms.