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 |