ACCA | Air Conditioning Contractors of America |
ACI | American Concrete Institute |
AEO | Applied Economics Office |
AGV | automated guided vehicle |
AHAM | Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers |
AHRI | Air-Conditioning, Heating, and Refrigeration Institute |
AISC | American Institute of Steel Construction |
ANSI | American National Standards Institute |
APAR-DD | air handling unit performance assessment rule—dual duct |
ASCE | American Society of Civil Engineers |
ASHRAE | American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers |
ASME | American Society of Mechanical Engineers |
ASTM | American Society for Testing and Materials |
BACnet | building automation and control network |
BEES | building for environmental and economic sustainability |
BEMS | building energy management systems |
BIRDS | building industry reporting and design for sustainability |
CFAST | consolidated model of fire and smoke transport |
CFD | computational fluid dynamics |
CIB | International Council for Building |
CPSC | Consumer Product Safety Commission |
DARPA | Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency |
DHHS | Department of Health and Human Services |
DOE | Department of Energy |
EED | Energy and Environment Division |
EL | Engineering Laboratory |
ERDC | Engineering Research and Development Center |
FAA | Federal Aviation Administration |
FAR | Federal Acquisition Regulations |
FDD | fault detection and diagnostics |
FDNY | Fire Department of New York City |
FDS | Fire Dynamics Simulator |
FEMA | Federal Emergency Management Agency |
FRD | Fire Research Division |
FSGIM | facility smart grid information model |
GSA | Government Services Administration |
HVAC&R | heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and refrigeration |
IAFC | International Association of Fire Chiefs |
IAFF | International Association of Fire Fighters |
IAQ | indoor-air quality |
ICC | International Code Council |
ICS | industrial control systems |
IEC | International Electrotechnical Commission |
IEQ | indoor environment quality |
IFSI | Illinois Fire Service Institute |
IFSTA | International Fire Service Training Association |
INCOSE | International Council on Systems Engineering |
ISD | Intelligent Systems Division |
ISO | International Organization for Standardization |
MBE | model-based enterprise |
MSSD | Materials and Structural Systems Division |
NASA | National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
NEMA | National Electrical Manufacturers Association |
NFPA | National Fire Protection Association |
NFRL | National Fire Research Laboratory |
NGRA | next- generation robotics and automation |
NIOSH | National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health |
NIST | National Institute of Standards and Technology |
NRC | National Research Council |
NZERTF | Net-Zero Energy Residential Test Facility |
OA | other agency |
OMB | Office of Management and Budget |
OMG | Object Management Group |
PMI | product manufacturing information |
R&D | research and development |
SCBA | self-contained breathing apparatus |
SFPE | Society of Fire Protection Engineers |
SI | systems integration |
SID | Systems Integration Division |
SLICE-ERS | size up, locate the fire, isolate the flow path, cool from a safe distance, extinguish, and then rescue and salvage |
SMCS | smart manufacturing construction systems |
SRMs | standard reference materials |
STEP | Standard for Exchange of Product |
SURF | Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship |
TRANSYS | transient system simulation |
UL | Underwriters Laboratories |
USFA | U.S. Fire Administration |
USFS | U.S. Forest Service |
UV | ultraviolet |
VOC | volatile organic compound |
WUI | wildland-urban interface |
W3C | World Wide Web Consortium |