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1 AAF eBuilder Process: Allowance Authorization Form
2 ACBM Asbestos Containing Building Material
3 ACDC An Electrical System or Device Compatible with both Alternating Current and Direct Current.
4 ACM Asbestos Containing Material
5 ACTUAL COST (Cost Module) Actual Costs are project expenses and invoices that have been approved for payment. Examples include invoices, reimbursable expenses, and contractor applications for payment.
6 ADA Americans with Disabilities Act.
7 A/E Architect / Engineer
8 AES A/E Selection: Selects Professional Services for the project; even for re-sites.
9 AFF Allowance Authorization Form
10 AHERA Asbestos Hazard Emergency Response Act
11 AIA American Institute of Architects
12 AVL Approved Vendor List
13 BC Boulder City
14 BIC Ball in Court - Assigns a task or tasks to a specific person(s)
15 BLM Bureau of Land Management
16 BOC Bond Oversight Committee
17 BOST Board of School Trustees
18 B&T Boundary and Topographical
19 BUDG eBuilder: Budget Initiation/Adjustment, Setup initial budget and process any budget adjustments that are not scope changes.
20 BUDGET (Cost Module) A budget is the original detailed cost estimate for your project.
21 CAF Contingency Authorization Form
22 CAF eBuilder: Capital Authorization Form, Developed for the purpose of approving authorized funding in eB.
23 CAP Commitment Approval, Approval of a Contract that is initiated after bidding for Construction contracts and initiated by Procurement Manager in the Request for Proposal (RFP) process for Design contracts.
24 CAPITAL PLANNING The process of budgeting resources for the future of an organization's long term plans. Capital planning for a business would include budgeting for new and replacement machinery, research and development and the production of new products, new plants and other major capital expenditures. Also called investment appraisal, capital budgeting.
25 CASH FLOW (Cost Module) Cash Flow is used to project the amount of money that will be expended each month in the remaining life of a project. These forecasts can be reported at the program level in the Reports module to plan program wide cash flow needs in future months, quarters, or years.
26 CC Clark County
27 CCD Construction Change Directive
28 CCDAQEM Clark County Department of Air Quality & Environmental Management
29 CCDS Clark County Development Services
30 CCI Code Compliance Inspector
31 CCSD Clark County School District
32 CDC Construction Document Clerk
33 CIP Capital Improvement Program
34 CLV City of Las Vegas
35 CM Construction Manager
36 CMAR Construction Manager At Risk
37 CMS Construction Management Support
38 CNLV City of North Las Vegas
39 CO eBuilder: Change Order (CO) is a formal agreement between the District and the Contractor that sets forth a description of the change, the amount of adjustment to the contract price, if any, and/or the extent of adjustment to the contact time, if any. The Change Order Process will bundle multiple Change Order Authorizations into one Change Order.
40 COA Change Order Authorization
41 COH City of Henderson
42 COMMITMENT (Cost Module) A commitment is a promise that you make to a seller to purchase goods or services in exchange for money in accordance with specific terms and conditions. The most common types of commitments are contracts and purchase orders.
43 COMMITMENT INVOICE (Cost Module) A commitment Invoice is an actual cost associated with an existing commitment. For example, a request for payment from a vendor that you have a contract with would be entered as a commitment invoice.
44 C.O.R The Contractor submits a Change Order Request (COR) to the A/E (or PM) requesting contract amount and/or time adjustments based on conditions encountered. A Change Order Authorization (COA) is an interim document used by the A/E and/or PM to evaluate. Note: This process is being phased out.
45 COR The Contractor submits a Change Order Request (COR) to the A/E (or PM) requesting contract amount and/or time adjustments based on conditions encountered. A Change Order Authorization (COA) is an interim document used by the A/E and/or PM to evaluate.
46 COSC Certificate of Substantial Completion. The Architect/Engineer submits a Certificate of substantial completion document. The document need to be DocuSign by CCSD, Contractor and Architect/Engineer.
47 CPC Contracts, Procurement, and Compliance
48 CPC Contracts, Procurement, and Compliance Department
49 CPM Critical Path Method
50 CSI <b>Construction Specifications Institute. </b>The 16 Divisions of construction, as defined by the Construction Specifications Institute (CSI)'s MasterFormat, is the most widely used standard for organizing specifications and other written information for commercial and institutional building projects in the U.S. and Canada.
51 CSR eBuilder: Change in Services Request, Any and all services that are in addition to or over and above an engineer's/consultants Basic Services must be approved via a Change in Services Request (CSR).
52 CXA Commissioning
53 DCP Desert Conservation Program
54 DTCC Desert Tortoise Conservation Center
55 EA Environmental Assessment
56 EAP Easement Approval Process, This process is initiated by the CM (Construction Manager) in order to have RPM (Real Property Management) approve all easement documents required by other jurisdictions.
57 EPA Environmental Protection Agency
58 ES Elementary School
59 FBFFM Facilities & Bond Fund Financial Management
60 FUNDING SOURCES (Cost Module) Funding sources are the accounts or institutions from which project funds are received. Examples include debt, equity, grants, and donations. By using funding sources you are able to track the amount of funds remaining in each funding account at any point in the project.
61 GENERAL INVOICE (Cost Module) A general invoice is an actual cost that does not have an associated commitment. For example, a fee paid to the city for a permit is typically entered as a general invoice.
62 GMP Guaranteed Maximum Price
63 GST Government Supplemental Tax
64 HS High School
65 HVAC Heating, Ventilation, and Air-Conditioning System
66 IBC International Building Code
67 ICC International Code Council
68 INSP Inspection Request - GC to request inspection by CCSD Building Department and/or Third party inspection.
69 INSPM Inspection Assignment - Maintenance, Permit Tech will initiate process and select inspector to perform inspection on maintenance project. Process can only be used on the annual project. Annual projects must be added to the configurations. Request coming from Maintenance.
70 INV Invoice Approval - Architect / Engineer, Vendor invoices submitted then routed for approval and processing.
71 INV-C Invoice Approval - Commissioning Services
72 INV-G Invoice Approval - GeoTech Services
73 INV-R Invoice Approval - Constructability Review professional
74 INV-S Invoice Approval - Schedule Review Services
75 INV-T Invoice Approval - Test & Balance (TAB)
76 INVTS Invoice Approval - Topo & Survey
77 INV-U Invoice Approval - Unit Cost Contract
78 LEED leadership in Energy and Environmental Design
79 LS Lump Sum: A single payment made at a particular time, as opposed to a number of smaller payments or installments.
80 LVINS Low Voltage Inspection Request (LVINS)
81 LVVWD Las Vegas Valley Water District
82 MP Master Plan
83 MPID Master Plan Identification Number
84 MS Middle School
85 NDEP Nevada Division of Environmental Protection
86 NDF Nevada Division of Forestry
87 NESHAP National Emissions Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants
88 NNC Notices of Non-Compliance
89 NOA Notice of Award
90 NOC Notice of Clarification Initiated by AE & PM to provide additional information to the contractor for clarification
91 NOI Notice of Intent
92 NPDES National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System
93 NRS Nevada Revised Statues
94 NSI eBuilder Process: Networking Service Inspection
95 NTP Notice to Proceed
96 NUR New User Request, Process for requesting e-Builder logons to be created.
97 NVA No Value Added
98 OLC Office of Labor Commissions
99 O&M Operations and Maintenance
100 OM Operations Manager
101 OSHA Occupational Safety and Health Administration
102 OVER/UNDER (Cost Module) In the Cost Summary for a project the (Over/Under) shows the expected variance to budget for the project. For example, an over/under of zero means that a project is expected to be exactly on budget. The over/under is automatically calculated based on the data entered for the project.
103 PAF Project Authorization Funding
104 PCB Poly-chlorinated Biphenyl
105 PCO Project Close-Out
106 PENDING (Cost Module) Pending is a status indicator that is available for commitments, commitment changes, and budget changes. It is used to indicate when there is a likely change to an existing commitment or line item in the budget. It is also used to record commitments that are likely to occur, but are not yet finalized- such as a verbal acceptance of a contract but the signed copy has not been received. By entering these items the team can gain visibility into any anticipated changes before they occur.
107 PM Project Manager
108 PMA Project Manager Assistant
109 PPE Personal Protection Equipment
110 PROJECTED (Cost Module) Projected is a status indicator that is available for commitment and budget changes. It is used to indicate when there is a possible change to an existing commitment or line item in the budget. By entering these items the team can gain visibility into any anticipated changes before they occur.
111 PSRFP Requests for Proposal (RFPs) are requests from the PM to the Vendor to provide an estimate of cost and/or time impacts for work needing to be added, deleted or modified. This process may be spawned from the AE Selection process or started initiated.
112 PSS Professional Service Submittal, Design professional to submit drawings, reports, etc. via this process to gain approval and have the information uploaded into BlueBeam.
113 PW Prevailing Wages
114 PWP Public Works Project
115 PWP# Public Works Project Number
116 PYAPP eBuilder: Application for Payment, Process to submit and approve Construction Application for Payments (Pay Apps).
117 RFI Request for Information, During the course of construction, the Contractor may encounter items within the contract documents that require clarification. Requests for Information (RFIs) provide an orderly method for tracking and resolving these questions when they arise.
118 RFI-C Request for Information (RFI) - Construction
119 RFP Request for Proposal - Initiated by AE & PM to request for proposal from the contractor.
120 RFQ Request for Qualification
121 ROE Right of Entry
122 ROW Right of Way
123 RPM Real Property Management
124 R&PP Recreational or Public Purposes
125 SES Safety and Environmental Services
126 SF Capital Funds Expenditure Authorization (School/Special Funds)
127 SFRP SF Routing Process, This process has been set-up to digitally track and ensure the accuracy of SFs before being sent to finance.
128 SNHD Southern Nevada Health District
129 SOV Schedule of Values Used by General Contractor (GC) to break out the lump sum commitment item into the Schedule of Values (SOV).
130 STATUS (Cost Module) In the Budget, Commitment, and Actual Cost areas of the Cost module each item that is entered has a status which indicates whether or not it has been finalized. Every item is first placed in draft status so that it can be reviewed before proceeding. Depending on what type of item is being entered, its status can move through intermediate steps before it becomes approved.
131 SWPPP Storm Water Pollution Protection Program
132 TABA Testing and Air Balance Agency
133 TCO Temporary Certificate of Occupancy.
134 TIFF Tagged Image File Format
135 UST Underground Storage Tanks
136 VA Value Added
137 VVWD Virgin Valley Water District
138 WIP Work in Progress
139 WN Warranty Notice eBuilder process