Definitions / Abbreviations
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Abbreviation | Description | |
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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 |