CII Acronyms
CII and other industry participants use acronyms to quickly refer to complex concepts. Please see the list below.
| 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 |