List of Acronyms
| AA | Alternatives Analysis |
| A2LA | American Association for Laboratory Accreditation |
| ANSI | American National Standards Institute |
| ASQC | American Society of Quality Control |
| ASCE | American Society of Civil Engineers |
| ASME | American Society of Mechanical Engineers |
| CII | Construction Industry Institute |
| CMC | Construction Management Consultant |
| DB | Design-Build |
| DCQI | Design and Construction Quality Institute |
| DOD | Department of Defense |
| FFGA | Full Funding Grant Agreementv |
| FHWA | Federal Highway Administration |
| FTA | Federal Transit Administration |
| ICBO ES | International Council of Building Officials Evaluation Service |
| IEEE | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers |
| ISO | International Organization for Standardization |
| LAP | Laboratory Accreditation Program |
| LIRR | Long Island Rail Road |
| NACLA | National Cooperation of Laboratory Accreditation |
| NIST | National Institute of Standards and Technology |
| NVLAP | National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation Program |
| OSS | Office of Standards Services |
| PE | Preliminary Engineering |
| PMO | Project Management Oversight |
| PMOC | Project Management Oversight Contractor |
| PMP | Project Management Plan |
| PM | Project Manager |
| QA | Quality Assurance |
| QC | Quality Control |
| RCC | Rail Construction Corporation |
| RE | Resident Engineer |
| SEPTA | Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority |
| SPC | Statistical Process Control |
| SWTP | The Southwest Transit Project of the Chicago DPW |
| TQM | Total Quality Management |
| TRB | Transportation Research Board |
| VQS | Vendor’s Quality Systemv |
| VSDP | Vendor’s Software Development Process |
| WMATA | Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority |
