ACEEE

American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy

ACSIM

Office of the Assistant Chief of Staff for Installation Management, U.S. Army

ADA

Americans with Disabilities Act

AE

Architect-engineer

AFCEE

Air Force Center for Environmental Excellence

AFCESA

Air Force Civil Engineer Support Agency

AIA

The American Institute of Architects

AISC

American Institute of Steel Construction

ANSI

American National Standards Institute

ASAE

American Society of Agricultural Engineers

ASCE

American Society of Civil Engineers

ASLA

American Society of Landscape Architects

ASTM

American Society for Testing and Materials

ASHRAE

American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers

ASTM

ASTM International, a.k.a. the American Society for Testing and Materials

AT/FP

Antiterrorism/Force Protection

ATM

Automated teller machine

B20

Mixture of 20 percent biodiesel and 80 percent petroleum diesel

B100

100 percent biodiesel

BEES

Building for Environmental and Economic Sustainability

BHT

Butylated hydroxytoluene

BMPs

Best Management Practices for stormwater control

BOD

Basis of design

BOD ₅

5-Day Biological oxygen demand

BRAC

Base realignment and closure

BREEAM

Building Research Establishment's Environmental Assessment Method

CARB

California Air Resources Board

CBECS

Commercial Buildings Energy Consumption Survey (U.S. DoE)

CCB

Construction criteria base

Cd

Cadmium

CDA

Copper Development Association

CEPSCI

Certified Erosion Prevention and Sedimentation Control Inspector

CEC

California Energy Commission

CERCLA

Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act

CERL

USACE's Construction Engineering Research Laboratory

CFC

Chlorofluorocarbon

CFC11

Trichlorofluoromethane (a.k.a. R-11 or CCl3F)

CF ₂BrCl

Bromochlorodifluoromethane (halon...