| Acronym |
Definition |
| AC |
Annual Conference |
| AD |
CII Associate Director |
| AWP |
Advanced Work Packaging |
| AWP CBA |
Advanced Work Packaging CBA |
| BAG |
Benchmarking Advisory Group |
| BM&M |
Benchmarking & Metrics |
| BOA |
Board of Advisors |
| BP |
CII Best Practices |
| BPC |
CII Best Practices Course program |
| CBA |
Community for Business Advancement |
| CCIS |
Center for Construction Industry Studies (sister organization under the CII umbrella) |
| CEPM |
Construction Engineering and Project Management (at The University of Texas at Austin) |
| CEU |
Continuing Education Unit |
| CICE |
Construction Industry Cost Effectiveness (historic study by The Business Roundtable that helped start CII) |
| CII |
Construction Industry Institute |
| CMAA |
Construction Management Association of America (CII’s partner in Best Practices–Best Practitioners Alliance) |
| CRA |
Construction Readiness Assessment tool |
| DA CBA |
Data Analytics CBA |
| DART |
Days Away, Restricted or Transferred, Time (Days Away Restricted Time) |
| DCC |
Downstream & Chemical Sector Committee |
| DPC |
Deployment Committee |
| DSA |
Distinguished Service Award |
| DW |
Data Warehouse |
| EM |
Education Module (CII publication type – classroom instruction in two components: see IG and PH) |
| ESG |
Environmental, Social & Governance |
| F2F |
Face-to-Face Meeting |
| FEP |
Front End Planning |
| FF‐DARAP |
Federal Facilities Data Analytics Research and Applications Program (Federal Facilities Benchmarking) |
| FHC |
Facilities & Healthcare Sector Committee |
| FIATECH |
Fully Integrated & Automated Technologies for Construction (sunset group, but some of its initiatives live on in CII’s TC) |
| FR |
Final Report (CII publication type) |
| FSC |
Funded Studies Committee |
| FT |
Designation for all Fiatech documents incorporated into KB |
| HSE (or SHE) |
Health, Safety & Environment |
| I2PD |
Industrial Integrated Project Delivery |
| IG |
Instructor’s Guide (teacher component of EM) |
| IM CBA |
Information Management CBA |
| IPA |
Independent Project Analysis, Inc. |
| IPD |
Integrated Project Delivery |
| IPRA |
Integrated Project Risk Assessment (formerly International Project Risk Assessment) |
| IR |
Implementation Resource (CII publication type – useful tool, checklist, etc.) |
| JGW |
Joint Work Group |
| JIP |
Joint Industry Program |
| KA |
Knowledge Area |
| KB |
CII's Knowledge Base |
| KPI |
Key Performance Indicator metrics |
| LEED |
Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design (rating system developed by the USGBC) |
| MLS |
Manufacturing and Life Sciences Sector Committee |
| Mod CBA |
Modularization CBA |
| NCCER |
National Center for Construction Education and Research |
| NIST |
National Institute of Standards and Technology |
| NSF |
National Science Foundation |
| OLE |
CII Online Education Program |
| P3 |
Pre Project Planning (superseded by FEP) |
| PC CBA |
Project Controls CBA |
| PDCS |
Project Delivery and Contract Strategies |
| PDH |
Professional Development Hour |
| PDRI |
Project Definition Rating Index tool |
| PEpC |
Procurement, Engineering Procurement, Construction |
| PH |
Participant Handbook (student component of EM) |
| PHI |
Project Health Indicator tool |
| PIP |
Process Industry Practices (sister organization under CII umbrella) |
| PIW |
CII Performance Improvement Workshop |
| PM |
Project Manager |
| PMI |
Project Management Institute |
| PPMOF |
Prefabrication, Preassembly, Modularization & Offsite Fabrication |
| PPP |
Pre-Project Planning |
| PRB |
Product Review Board |
| PUIC |
Power, Utility, and Infrastructure Sector Committee |
| QM |
Quality Management |
| QM CBA |
Quality Management CBA |
| R&D |
Research & Development |
| REP |
Registered Education Provider |
| RFID |
Radio Frequency Identification |
| RM CBA |
Risk Management CBA |
| ROI |
Return on Investment |
| RR |
Research Report (CII publication type – academic white paper) |
| RS |
Research Summary (CII publication type – Cliffs Notes for specific RT) |
| RT |
Research Team |
| Safety CBA |
Safety CBA |
| SCM CBA |
Supply Chain Management CBA |
| SD |
Source Document (CII publication type – precursor to RR) |
| SHE (or HSE) |
Safety, Health & Environment |
| SLC |
Sector Leadership Committee |
| SME |
Subject Matter Expert |
| SP |
Special Publication (CII publication type – similar to IR) |
| SPC |
Strategic Planning Committee |
| SR |
Special Report (CII publication type) |
| TACC |
Texas Advanced Computing Center (benchmarking collaborator) |
| TC |
Technology Committee |
| TQM |
Total Quality Management |
| TRIR |
Total Recordable Incident Rate |
| UMM |
Upstream, Midstream, and Mining Sector Committee |
| V or VM |
Virtual Meeting |
| XC |
Executive Committee |
| XLP |
Executive Leadership Program |