ACRONYM ALLEY
ACRONYM
AASHTO
AACM
AAV
ABI
ABS
ABS C
ABS S
AC
ACA
ACC-CG
ACE
ACoP
ACPO
ACT
ACVTL
ADCO-CPR
ADEPT
ADP
AENOR
AFNOR
AGRI
AH
AIA
AISI
DESCRIPTION
American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials
Alkali-Activated Cementitious Material
Aggregate Abrasion Value
Association of British Insurers
Air-cooled Blastfurnace Slag
Air-cooled Blastfurnace Slag from carbon steel production
Air-cooled Blastfurnace Slag from stainless/high alloy steel production
Asphalt Concrete (formerly Macadam)
Architectural Cladding Association
Adaptation to Climate Change Coordination Group
Association of Chemical Engineers
Approved Code of Practice
Association of Chief Police Officers
Accelerated Carbonation Technology (process for producing lightweight aggregates)
Asphalt Concrete for Very Thin Layers (BBTM)
Administratie Cooperation Market Surveillance CPR
Association of Directors of Environment, Economy, Planning & Transport (formerly CSS)
Abiotic Depletion Potential
Spain's National Standards Body (Asociacion Espanola de Normalizacion y Certificacion)
France's National Standards Body (Association Française de NORmalisation)
Agriculture and Rural Development (European Parliament Committee)
Absolute Hazardous (WM2) - wastes that are always hazardous
Asphalt Industry Alliance (Alliance of MPA Asphalt and RBA)
American Iron and Steel Institute
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ACRONYM
AITS
ALA
ALARM
ALARP
ALSF
AMPS
AN
ANEC
AoC
APCR
API
APL
APPG
APSE
APSRG
ARD
ARMCA
ASPA
asPECT
ASR
ASTM
ATD
AUTL
AVCP
DESCRIPTION
Assisted International Travel Scheme (DTI through BSI)
Agricultural Lime Association
Annual Local Authority Road Maintenance (annual survey organised by the AIA - 2013 is the 18th survey)
As Low As Reasonably Practical (used in Health & Safety)
Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund
Annual Mineral Planning Survey
Absolute Non-hazardous (WM2) - wastes that are always non-hazardous
European Association for the co-ordination of consumer representation in standardisation
Attestation of Conformity
Air Polution Control Residues (potential cement additives)
American Petroleum Institute
Additional Protective Layer
All Party Parliamentary Group (an Industry/Government group focussing on highway maintenance)
Association for Public Service Excellence (not for profit government body working with Councils/LAs)
All-Party Parliamentary Sustainable Resource Group
Abiotic Resource Depletion
American Ready Mixed Concrete Association
Architectural and Structural Precast Association
Asphalt Pavement Embodied Carbon Tool
Alkali Silica Reaction
American Society for Testing and Materials
Authority To Discharge (usually applicable to Bitumen)
Asphalt for Ultra-Thin-Layers (EN 13108-9)
Assessment and Verification of Constancy of Performance (a requirement of CPR)
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ACRONYM
AWCCT
AWP
BAA
BAP
BAR
BAT
BATNEEC
BATRRT
BBA
BBA
BBCT
BBTM
BC
BCA
BCCF
BCIS
BDP
BFS
BIBM
BIM
BIS
BLA
BMAPA
BoE
DESCRIPTION
Asphalt Waste Containing Coal Tar (Designation used by EA in their Regulatory Position Statement))
Aggregate Working Party (Mineral Planning)
British Aggregates Association
Biodiversity Action Plan
British Association of Reinforcement
Best Available Techniques
Best Available Techniques Not Entailing Excessive Cost
Best Available Treatment Recovery and Recycling Techniques
British Board of Agrément
Bétons Bitumineux pour chaussées Aéronautiques (Bituminous Concrete for Airfield Pavements)
Bumblebee Conservation Trust (in a partnership with MPA)
Béton Bitumineux Très Mince (Ultra Thin Asphalt for Very Thin Layers)
Binder Course
British Cement Association
British Calcium Carbonates Federation
Building Cost Information Service
Bitumen Discharge Permit
Blast Furnace Slag
European Federation for Precast Concrete (Bureau International du Béton Manufacturé)
Business Information Modelling
UK department for Business Innovation and Skills
British Lime Association
British Marine Aggregate Producers Association
Bank of England
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ACRONYM
BOS
BPCF
BRCW
BRDO
BRE
BREEAM
BREF
BRMCA
BS
BS EN
BSI
BSSD
C&DW
CAA
CAA
CAD
CAT
CBGM
CBI
CBM
CBR
CCA
CCA
CCS
DESCRIPTION
Basic Oxygen Steelslag
British Precast Concrete Federation
Basic Requirements for Construction Works (in CPR replacing CPD)
Better Regulation Delivery Office (part of BIS)
Building Research Establishment
BRE Environment Assessment Method
Best available techniques (BAT) Reference documents
British Ready Mixed Concrete Association
British Standard
European Standard published by BSI for use in the UK.
British Standards Institution
Basic Safety Standards Diective (EC)
Construction and Demolition Waste
Cement Admixtures Association
Civil Aviation Authority
Chemical Agents Diective (EC)
Capability Assessment Toolkit (HA assessment)
Cement Bound Granular Material
Confederation of British Industry
Cement Bound Material
California Bearing Ratio
Climate Change Agreement
European Calcium Carbonates Association - Full designation: "CCA-Europe"
Carbon Capture and Storage
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ACRONYM
CCL
CCMC
CDEW
CDM
CDW
CE
CE
CECA
CEDR
CEFTA
CEMBUREAU
CEN
CEN TB
CENELEC
CEP
CEPMC
CERAM
CESWI
CETE
CEW
CEWEP
CfSH
CIBSE
CIC
DESCRIPTION
Climate Change Levy
CEN-CENELEC Management Centre (Brussels) in charge of the daily operations, coordination and promotion of all CEN and CENELEC activities
Construction Demolition and Excavation Waste
Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2007
Construction and Demolition Waste (before processing)
Circular Economy (see CEP)
Communauté Européenne - Short for CE Mark the Certificate of Conformity with a European Standard
Civil Engineering Contractors Association
Conference of European Directors of Roads
Central European Free Trade Agreement
The European Cement Association
European Committee for Standardisation (Comité Européen de Normalisation) - includes three EFTA Countries: Iceland, Norway & Switzerland
CEN Technical Board (Controls the Standards programme and the work of the Technical Committees)
European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization
Circular Economy Package (an EU action plan for the Circular Economy)
Council of European Producers of Materials for Construction (name changed to CPE May 13)
British Ceramics Research Association
Civil Engineering Specification for the Water Industry
Centre d’Etudes Techniques de l’Equipement (French road construction research centre)
Constructing Excellence in Wales (promotes best practice and knowledge across the Welsh construction industry)
Confederation of European Waste-to-Energy Plants
Code for Sustainable Homes
Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers
Construction Industry Council
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ACRONYM
CID
CIF
CIHT
CILT
CIPFA
CIRIA
CITB
CIWEM
CIWM
CL:AIRE
CLG
CLP
CMD
CoC
COMPET
CONCAWE
CONT
CoP
CoRAP
COSHH
CoTC
CP
CPA
CPD
DESCRIPTION
Commission Implementing Decision
Cost, Insurance and Freight [included] - (applicable to shipped products)
Chartered Institution of Highways & Transportation formerly the IHT
Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport
Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy
Construction Industry Research and Information Centre
Construction Industry Training Board
Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management
Chartered Institution of Wastes Management
Contaminated Land: Applications in Real Environments
Communities and Local Government (usually shown as DCLG)
Classification, Labelling and Packaging of substances and mixtures regulation
Carcinogens and Mutagens Directive (EC)
Certificate of Conformity
EU Council of Competiveness Ministers
CONservation of Clean Air and Water in Europe (Oil companies' European association for environment & health and safety in refining and distribution)
Budgetary Control (European Parliament Committee)
Code of Practice
Community Rolling Action Plan (ECHA and others)
Control of Substances Hazardous to Health
Certificate of Technical Competence (links to WAMITAB)
Prefix - British Standard Code of Practice
Construction Products Association
Continuing Professional Development
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ACRONYM
CPD
CPI
CPE
CPF
CPR
CPSR
CRA
CRC
CRC
CRCB
CRCP
CRL
CRT
CSMA
CROSS
CSI
CSR
CSR
CSNPE
CSS
CT
CUAP
DC
DCLG
DESCRIPTION
Construction Products Directive (superseded by CPR Reg. No. 305/2011 in July 2013)
Consumer Price Index
Construction Products Europe (formerly called CEPMC name changed May 13)
Carbon Price Floor (Government initiative)
Construction Products Regulation (EC Regulation No 305/2011 - preceded by CPD)
Consumer Product Safety Regulation (new EU regulation planned for 2013/14)
Construction Recycling Alliance
Continuously Reinforced Concrete
Carbon Reduction Commitment
Continually Reinforced Concrete Base
Continually Reinforced Concrete Pavement
Crack Relief Layer
Cathode Ray Tube
Cementitious Slag Makers Association
Confidential Reporting on Structural Safety
Cement Sustainability Initiative
Chemical Safety Report
Comprehensive Spending Review
Construction Sector Network Project for the Environment
Formerly the "County Surveyors Society" which became ADEPT in Sept 2009.
Carbon Trust
Common Understanding of Assessment Procedure (basis of European Technical Approvals)
Direct Current
Department for Communities and Local Government
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ACRONYM
DCO
DCP
DCPC
DE
DECC
DEF
Defra
DERD
DESI
DfT
DG ENV
DG GROW
DIN
DIO
DIS
DMRB
DNEL
DoC
DoP
DPC
DSG
DWI
EA
EAD
DESCRIPTION
Development Consent Order
Dynamic Cone Penetrometer
Driver Certificate of Professional Competence
Defence Estates
Department of Energy and Climate Change
Delayed Ettringite Formation
Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs
Deputy European Road Directors (now CEDR)
Digital Economy and Society Index (tracks the evolution of EU member states in digital competitiveness)
Department for Transport
DG Environment - The Environment Directorate-General of the European Commission
DG Growth - EC Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs
Germany's National Standards Body (Deutsches Institut für Normung)
Defence Infrastructure Organisation (formerly Defence Estates)
Draft International Standard
Design Manual for Roads and Bridges
Derived No Effect Limit (mg/m3)
Declaration of Conformity (a legal requirement of CPD)
Declaration of Performance (a legal requirement of CPR)
Draft for Public Comment (usually applicable to standards)
Dimension Stone Group (MPA)
Drinking Water Inspectorate
Environment Agency
European Assessment Document (produced by EOTA)
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ACRONYM
EAF
EAF C
EAF S
EANCB
EAPA
EBITDA
EC
ECA
ECE
ECF
ECHA
ECI
ECISS
ECJ
ECOBA
ECON
ECOS
ECP
ECSPA
EDD
EDGAR
EDR
EEA
EED
DESCRIPTION
Electric Arc Furnace (steel slag)
Electric Arc Furnace slag from Carbon steel production
Electric Arc Furnace slag from Stainless/high alloy steel production
Estimated Annual Net Cost to Business
European Asphalt Pavement Association
Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation and Amortization
European Commission
Electrical Contractors Association
Economic Commission for Europe
European Construction Forum
European CHemicals Agency
Early Contractor Involvement
European Commission for Iron and Steel Standardization
European Court of Justice
European Coal Combustion Products Association
Economy and Monetary Affairs (European Parliament Committee)
Environmental Citizens Organisation for Standardisation
European Concrete Platform
European Calcium Silicate Producers Association
Ecodesign Directive (EC)
Evaluation and Decision process for Greener Asphalt Roads
Environmental Damage Regulations
European Economic Area
Energy Efficiency Directive (EC)
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ACRONYM
EETS
EFCA
EFG
EFTA
EfW
EGDS
EIA
EITI
EIUG
ELD
ELV
EMAS
EME
EMEP
EMIS
EMO
EMR
EMS
EMSAGG
EN
ENSREG
ENVI
EoC
EOTA
DESCRIPTION
European Emissions Trading Scheme
European Federation of Concrete Admixtures Associations
Environmental Focus Group
European Free Trade Association (International organization of Iceland, Norway, Switzerland, and Liechtenstein)
Energy from Waste
European Expert Group on Dangerous Substances (under UEPG)
Environmental Impact Assessment (directive)
Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative
Energy Intensive Users Group
Energy Labelling Directive (EC)
End-of-Life Vehicles
Eco-Management and Audit Scheme (included in the EU Circular Economy proposals - (Dec 2015)
Enrobés à Module Élevé (High Stiffness Modulus Asphalt Concrete)
European Monitoring and Evaluation Program (Programme for Monitoring and Evaluation of the Long-range Transmission of Air Pollutants in Europe)
Emissions Measurements in the Automotive Sector (European Parliament Committee of Inquiry)
European Mortar Organisation
Electricity Market Reform
Environmental Management System
European Marine Sand and Gravel Group
European Standard (Europäische Norm)
European Nuclear Safety Regulators Group (an independent ECexpert advisory group)
Environment, Public Health and Foof Safety (European Parliament Committee)
Evaluation of conformity
European Organisation for Technical Approvals
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ACRONYM
EOTC
EoWC
EP
EP
EPBD
EPD
EPOW
EPRA
EQAR
EQual
ER
ERMCO
ES
ESA
ESDAL
ESIS
ESL
ESS
ETA
ETAG
ETP
ETP SMR
ETSI
EU
DESCRIPTION
European Organisation for Testing and Certification
End of Waste Criteria
European Parliament
Eutrophication Potential
Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EC)
Environmental Product Declaration
European Pathway to Zero Waste
European Platform for Recycled Aggregates
European Quality Association for Recycling
Ensuring Quality of waste-derived products to achieve resource (Steering Board for management & promotion of Quality Protocols)
Essential Requirement
European Ready Mixed Concrete Organisation
Exposure Scenario
Environmental Services Association
Electronic Service Delivery of Abnormal Loads (Highways England)
European chemical Substances Information System
Estimated Service Life
European Standardisation System
European Technical Approval
European Technical Approval Guideline
European Technology Platform
European Technology Platform on Sustainable Mineral Resources
European Telecommunications Standards Institute
European Union
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ACRONYM
EU ETS
EuDA
EuLA
EURATOM
EUROFER
EUROSIL
EUROSLAG
EVT
EWC
FABM
FBA
FBCFA
FDIS
FEED
FEHRL
FEhS
FGTr
FIA
fib
FIEC
FIR
FMB
FMC
FPC
DESCRIPTION
European Union Emissions Trading System
European Dredging Association
European Lime Association
EC Directive 2013 (lays down safety standards for protection against the dangers arising from exposure to ionising radiation)
European Steel Association
The European Association of Industrial Silica Producers (Member of IMA Europe)
The European Association representing the producers and processors of metallurgical slags
Environmental Technology Verification (included in the EU Circular Economy proposals - Dec 2015)
European Waste Catalogue
Fly Ash Bound Mixture
Furnace Bottom Ash
Fluidized Bed Combustion Fly Ash
Final Draft International Standard (Final voting stage)
Front End Engineering and Design
Forum of European Highway Research Laboratories
Institut für Baustoff-Forschung (Building Research Institute) network of research facilities, testing bodies and interest groups.
Flue-Gas Treatment residues
Financial Impact Assessment
International Federation for Structural Concrete (fédération internationale du béton)
European Construction Industry Federation (Fédération de l'Industrie Européenne de la Construction)
International Recycling Federation (Fédération Internationale du Recyclage)
Federation of Master Builders
Future Maintenance Contracts (HA)
Factory Production Control (The documented system for the assessment of quality and conformity of products)
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ACRONYM
FPC
FTA
FTD
GATT
GBFS
GCMS
GDD
GDS
GGBS
GHS
GNB
GoCo
GP
GPP
GPR
GPSD
GPSR
GWP
HA
HAGDMS
HAMFIG
HAPAS
HAPMS
HAUC
DESCRIPTION
Federation of Planing Contractors
Freight Transport Association
Flat Traffic Delineator
General Agreements on Tariffs and Trade (predecessor to WTO)
Granulated Blast Furnace Slag
Gas Chromatography Mass Spectrometry
Groundwater Daughter Directive (December 2006)
Government Digital Services
Ground Granulated Blastfurnace Slag
Globally Harmonized System for Classification and Labelling of Chemicals
Group of Notified Bodies
Government Company (Highways Agency changed in 2014 from an executive agency to Government owned Company)
Guidance Paper
Green Public Procurement (included in the EU Circular Economy proposals - Dec 2015)
Ground Penetrating Radar
General Product Safety Diective (EC)
General Product Safety Regulations
Global Warming Potential
Highways Agency
Highways Agency Geotechnical Data Management System
Highway Asset Management Financial Information Group
Highways Authorities Product Approval Scheme
Highways Agency Pavement Management System
Highway Authorities and Utilities Committee
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ACRONYM
HBM
HCD
HCFC
HE
HECS
hEN
HESPE
HFC
HiTAC
HMA
HMAC
HMB
HMEP
HMSO/TSO
HPER
HPLC
HRA
HSE
HTMA
HWR
IAG
IAM-IS
IAN
IARC
DESCRIPTION
Hydraulic Bound Mixture
Highway Construction Details
Hydrochlorofluorocarbon
Highways England (Government company from April 2015 - previously the Highways Agency - HA)
High-Efficiency Combustion System
Harmonised European Standard (containing an Annex ZA/product can be CE marked)
Highway and Engineering Services Procurement Exercise
Hydrofluorocarbons
Highways Technical Advisory Committee
Hot Mixed Asphalt
Hot Mixed Asphalt Concrete
High Modulus Base (Asphalt Concrete)
Highways Maintenance Efficiency Programme
Her Majesty’s Stationery Office/The Stationery Office
House Price Earnings Ratio
High Performance Liquid Chromatography
Hot Rolled Asphalt
Health and Safety Executive
Highways Term Maintenance Association
Hazardous Waste Regulations
Industry Advisory Group (HA)
Integrated Asset Management - Information System (Origin HA)
Interim Advisory Note (published by the HA)
International Agency for Research on Cancer
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ACRONYM
IAT
IBAA
ICE
ICR
ICRP
ICT
IED
IEEA
IFS
IFSTTAR
IHE
IIUG
IMA
IMCO
IMF
IMS
INRETS
INTA
IOM3
IPPCD
IPTS
IQ
IR
ISO
DESCRIPTION
Institute of Asphalt Technology
Incinerator Bottom Ash Aggregate
Institution of Civil Engineers
Infrastructure Carbon Review (joint industry and government initiative to cut carbon emissions)
International Commission on Radiological Protection (recommends to the Euratom Directive)
Information and Communication Technologies
Industrial Emissions Diective (EC)
Industrial Energy Efficiency Accelerator
Institute for Fiscal Studies
French Institute of Science and Technology for Transport (LCPC merged with INRETS)
Institute of Highway Engineers
Irish Innovative Users Group
Industrial Minerals Association - Europe
Internal Market and Consumer Protection (Committee of the European Parliament)
International Monetary Fund
Integrated Management System (SHEQ)
Institut National de Recherche sur les Transports et leur Sécurité (French National Institute for Transport and Safety Research)
International Trade (European Parliament Committee)
The Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining
Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control Diective (EC)
Institute for Prospective Technological Studies
Institute of Quarrying
International Regulations (of CEN/CENELEC)
International Standards Organisation
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ACRONYM
ITRE
ITS
ITT
ITU
JAGDAG
JEP
JRC
JRC
JURC
JURI
LA
LA
L/A
LAA
LCA
LCI
LCIA
LCPC
LEP
LG TAG
LIBE
LNT
LOD
LOT
DESCRIPTION
Industry Research and Energy (European Parliament Committee)
Intelligent Transport Systems
Initial Type Testing (precedes TT)
International Telecommunications Union
Joint Agencies Groundwater Directive Advisory Group
Joint Environmental Programme
Jointed Reinforced Concrete
Joint Research Centre (the European Commission's in-house science service)
Jointed Unreinforced Concrete
Legal Affairs (European Parliament Committee)
Los Angeles (Aggregate fragmentation test)
Local Authority
Liquid to Air ratio (mainly used in the determination of leaching potenial)
Local Aggregate Assessments (Mineral Planning)
Life Cycle Analysis
Life Cycle Inventory
Life Cycle Impact Assessment
Laboratoire Central des Ponts et Chaussées (French road construction central laboratory)
Local Enterprise Partnership
Local Government Technical Advisory Group
Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (European Parliament Committee)
Linear-non-Threshold model (based on assuming radiation doses greater than zero will increase the risk of excess cancer)
Limit Of Detection
Lifetime Optimisation Tool
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ACRONYM
LLE
L/S
LTI
LTIFR
MA
MAC
MASHAM
MAS
MASS
MC
MC
MCV
MD
MDPE
MEWP
MH
MHA
MIA
MIBA
MIBAA
MIDP
MIFA
MIRA
MIRO
DESCRIPTION
Loss of Life Expectancy (from radiation exposure)
Liquid to Solids ratio (mainly used in the determination of leaching potenial)
Lost Time Injury
Lost Time Injury Frequency Rate
Mastic Asphalt
Managing Agent Contractor
Management and Administration of Safety and Health at Mines (regulations 1993)
Manufacturing Advisory Service.
Managed Aggregates Supply System
Masonry Cement
Mutation Component (relating to radiation)
Moisture Condition Value
Micro-Deval (Aggregate abrasion resistance test)
Medium Density Polyethylene
Mobile Elevated Working Platform
Mirror Hazardous (WM2) - Waste that may be hazardous.
Midland Highways Alliance (a partnership of 18 Local Authorities and the HA formed in 2007)
Mortar Industry Association
Municipal Incinerator Bottom Ash
Municipal Incinerator Bottom Ash Aggregate (aggregate produced from MIBA)
Master Information Delivery Plan (origin HA)
Municipal Incinerator Fly Ash
Motor Industry Research Association
Mineral Industry Research Organisation
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ACRONYM
MIST
MMA
MMR
MN
MPA
MPQC
MRA
MSCR
MSDS
MWC
MWD
MWRP
NACG
NANDO
NAPA
NAT
NBN
NBS
NC
NDD
NDP
NEN
NePSi
NF
DESCRIPTION
Mineral Industry Sustainable Technology
Modern Masonry Alliance
Mortgage Market Review
Mirror Non-hazardous (WM2) - Waste that may be non-hazardous.
Mineral Products Association
Mineral Products Qualification Council
Mutual Recognition Agreement (component of international trade agreement)
Multiple Stress Creep Recovery (a bitumen test)
Manufacturers Safety Data Sheet
Modified Work Cases (introduced May 2015 for H & S reporting)
Mining Waste Diective (EC)
Modernising Waste Regulation Panel (EA)
National Aggregate Coordinating Group (Mineral Planning)
New Approach Notified and Designated Organisations information system.
National Asphalt Pavement Association (USA)
Nottingham Asphalt Tester
Belgium's National Standards Body (Bureau De Normalisation)
National Building Specification
National Committee
National Delivery and Development directive (Highways England)
Nationally Determined Parameter (European Codes of Practice)
The Netherlands' National Standards Body (Nederlandse Norm)
Noyau europeen Pour la Silice -The European Network for Silica (formed by the Employee and Employer European sectorial associations)
Norme Française (French Standard)
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ACRONYM
NFB
NG
NHBC
NHPU
NHSS
NIEA
NIESR
NIM
NMM
NORM
NOS
NOx
NP
NPD
NPDLG
NPPF
NPT
NPWD
NQIT
NR
NRSWA
NRW
NSA
NSB
DESCRIPTION
National Federation of Builders
Notes for Guidance (prefix to Clause number in Volume 2 SHW)
National House Building Council
National Housing and Planning Unit
National Highway Sector Scheme
Northern Ireland Environment Agency
National Institute of Economic and Social Research
National Implementation Measures
Network Management Manual (HA)
Naturally Occurring Radioactive Materials
National Occupational Standards (see also RQS)
Nitrogen Oxides
New work item Proposal (CEN)
No Performance Determined (material property)
National Pavement Design Liaison Group (Under the new name UKPLG from Oct 12)
National Planning Policy Framework
Non Proliferation Treaty
National Packaging Waste Database
National Quarries Inspection Team (HSE)
Not Required (material's property category)
New Road & Street Works Act 2010
Natural Resources Wales (Welsh Government sponsored body from July 2013)
National Slag Association (USA)
National Standards Body
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ACRONYM
NSCS
NVQ
OBR
ODP
OE
OECD
OEL
Ofqual
OJEU
OMC
ONS
ORR
OS
OSHA
PA
PAA
PAG
PAG
PAG
PAH
PAS
PC
PCA
PCB
DESCRIPTION
National Structural Concrete Specification
National Vocational Qualification
Office for Budget Responsibility
Ozone Depletion Potential
Occupational Exposure
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Operational Exposure Limit (mg/m3)
Office of Qualifications and examinations (regulates qualifications, examinations and assessments in England and VQ in NI)
Official Journal of the European Union
Optimum Moisture Content
Office of National Statistics
Office of the Rail Regulator (from 2015 also responsible for monitoring the performance of the motorway/trunk road network)
Oxidisable Sulphides
European Agency for Health and Safety at Work
Porous Asphalt
Primary Authority Agreement (applicable to CPR electronic CE marking)
Policy Advisory Group (MPA)
Programming Advisory Group (CEN/BSI)
Project Advisory Group
Poly Aromatic Hydrocarbons (found in Tar)
Publicly Available Specification (produced by BSI)
Portland Cement
Portland Cement Association (USA)
PolyChlorinated Biphenyl
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ACRONYM
PCBC
PCC
PCPC
PCR
PCRF
PCSM
PD
PDT
PECT
PEF
PERN
PFA
PFF
PFG
PFI
PFO
PG
PGN
PICNIC
PICS
PM10
PM2.5
PMI
PNEC
DESCRIPTION
Permanent Cold-lay Binder Course
Precoated Chippings
Product Contact Point for Construction (primarily CPR)
Product Category Rules (rules applicable to the environmental performance of a product or group of products)
Percentage Recoverable Correction Factor (applicable to radiation effects)
Permanent Cold-lay Surfacing Materials
Published Document (BSI published UK guidance document for an EN)
Product Data Template
Pavement Embodied Carbon Tool
Product Environmental Footprint (for EPD)
Packaging Export Recovery Notes
Pulverised Fuel Ash (fly ash)
Precast Flooring Federation
Pavement Foundation Group
Public Finance Initiative
Processed Fuel Oil
Pavement Group (MPA Sub-group formerly the PFG)
Process Guidance Note
Problem In Chair Not In Computer
Pacific Industrial Contractor Screening
Particulate Matter less than or equal to 10µm
Particulate Matter less than or equal to 2.5µm
Purchasing Manager Indexes
Predicted No-Effect Concentration
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ACRONYM
POP
PPS
PQ
PQD
PQQ
PRASEG
prEN
PRD
PRN
PRTR
PSD
PSMSP
PSV
PUPPY
PVA
PVC
PVC-U
PWI
QA
QC
QCF
QLRA
QMS
QNJAC
DESCRIPTION
Persistent Organic Pollutants
Planning Policy Statement
Pavement Quality (usually refers to Concrete)
Professional Qualifications Directive (Services in the EC construction sector)
Prequalification Question or Questionnaire
(All -Party) Parliamentary Renewable and Sustainable Energy Group
Projet Norme Europeenne (Draft European Standard)
Percentage Refusal Density
Packaging Waste Recovery Note
Pollution Release and Transfer Register
Passive Solar Design
Product Safety and Market Surveillance Package (EU proposal Feb 2013)
Polished Stone Value
Prominent Unorthodox Polychromatic Protective Yukata
Polyvinyl Acetate
Polyvinyl Chloride
Unplasticised Polyvinyl Chloride
Potential new Work Item
Quality Assurance
Quality Control
Qualifications and Credit Framework (closed on 3th September 2015 - see RQF)
Qualitative Risk Assessment
Quality Management System
Quarries National Joint Advisory Committee
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ACRONYM
QP
QPA
QSRMC
RA
RAP
RATG
RAWP
RBA
RBE
RCA
RCC
RCS
RDF
RDS
REACH
REAP
REGI
REID
REP
RES
RESD
RFID
RFO
RFSC
DESCRIPTION
Quality Protocol (e.g. WRAP QP for the production of aggregates from inert waste)
Quarry Products Association (Predecessor of the MPA)
Quality Scheme for Ready Mixed Concrete
Recycled Asphalt
Recycled Asphalt Pavement (commonly replaced by RA)
Recycled Aggregates Task Group (in UEPG)
Regional Aggregates Working Party
Refined Bitumen Association
Relative Biological Effectiveness
Recycled Concrete Aggregate or Recycled Aggregates
Roller Compacted Concrete
Respirable Crystalline Silica
Refuse Derived Fuels
Regulated Dangerous Substances
The regulation for Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and restriction of CHemicals
Resourch Efficiency Action Programme
Regional Development (European Parliament Committee)
Risk of Exposure-Induced Death (from radiation)
Resource Efficiency Policy
Resource Efficiency Scoreboard (used by the EU Circular economy initiative)
Renewable Energy Resources Directive (EC)
Radio-Frequency IDentification (electronic chips/tags added to Asphalt or ANO product to identify product details)
Recovered Fuel Oil (unprocessed)
REACH Ferrous Slag Consortium
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ACRONYM ALLEY
ACRONYM
RGT
RHA
RHS
RIBA
RICS
RIDDOR
RIS
RMS
RMSI
RoC
ROMP
RoWSaF
RPA
RPE
RPS
RQF
RQS
RRQ
RSG
RSM
RSL
RSTA
RTC
RTPI
DESCRIPTION
Regional Growth Tracker (Usually from Banks)
Road Haulage Association
Rectangular Hollow Section
Royal Institute of British Architects
Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors
The Reporting of Injuries, Diseases and Dangerous Occurrences Regulation
Road Investment Strategy (Highways England)
Raw Materials Scoreboard (used by the EU Circular economy initiative)
Raw Material Supply Initiative (EU Commission publication)
Rules of Combination (see CITB and RQS)
Revision Of Mineral Planning
Road Workers Safety Forum
Risk & Policy Analysis ltd (company employed by the European Commission to carry out the CPR review)
Respiratory Protective Equipment
Regulatory Position Statement (an interim regulatory notice published by the EA)
Regulated Qualification Framework (introduced 1st October 2015 replacing QCF)
Recommended Qualification Structures (for National Occupational Standards under CITB)
Register of Regulated Qualifications - refer to Ofqual
Road Strategy Group (MPA cross-product group covering strategic road construction issues)
Road Solutions Manual
Reference Service Life
Road Surface Treatment Association
Red Tape Challenge (Government initiative)
Royal Town Planning Institute
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ACRONYM ALLEY
ACRONYM
RUA
RWIS
RWM
RWSC
SA
SABE
SAMI
SAMSA
SAP
SARTS
SB
SBM
SC
SC
SCC
SCCSO
SCF
SCF
SCOEL
SCOSS
SCRIM
SCS
SD
SD
DESCRIPTION
Road Users Alliance
Raw Materials Information System (EU initiative)
Recycling and Waste Management
Routine and Winter Service Code (HA)
Soft Asphalt
Strategic Advisory Body on Environment (body that advises the CEN Technical Board)
Stress Absorbing Membrane Interlayer
Silica and Moulding Sands Association
Standard Assessment Procedure (energy performance of buildings)
Spectrographic Analysis of Roads at Traffic Speed (HE project)
Standardisation Body
Slag Bound Mixture
Sub-Committee (of a CEN TC)
Surface Course
Standing Committee for Construction (covering CPD)
Saw-Cut, Crack and Seat and Overlay
Sustainable Concrete Forum - an MPA group
Sustainable Concrete Forum - an MPA sector interest group with supply chain representation
Scientific Committee on Occupational Expose Limits
Standing Committee on Structural Safety
Sideways Force Routine Investigation Machine
Saw-Cut and Seal
Services Directive (Services in the EC construction sector)
Sustainable Development (Group)
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ACRONYM ALLEY
ACRONYM
SDS
SECG
SEPA
SETRA
SHEQ
SHW
SI
SIPT
SMA
SMC
SME
SMTD
SNED
SOx
SPA
SQD
SQR
SRN
SRP
SSIP
SSSI
StART
STP
SuDS
DESCRIPTION
Safety Data Sheet
Specialist Engineering Contractor's Group
Scottish Environment Protection Agency
Service d’Etudes sur les Transports, les Routes et leurs Aménagements (French transport and road development design agency)
Safety Health Environment & Quality
Specification for Highway Works
Statutory Instrument
Site Installation Performance Trial (required under new Cl 942)
Stone Mastic Asphalt
Saturation Moisture Content
Small or Medium Enterprise
Sensor Measured Texture Depth
Dismantling Companies National Union (in France)
Sulfur Oxide gases
Structural Precast Association
Soil Quality Decree (applicable to the Netherlands)
Soil Quality Regulation (applicable to the Netherlands)
Strategic Road Network
Standard Rules Permit (applies to waste recycling exemptions)
Safety Schemes In Procurement
Site of Special Scientific Interest
Strategic Alignment Review Tool (HA)
Standard Temperature and Pressure (250C and 1 atmosphere)
Sustainable Drainage System (a heavily voided pavement allowing water to pass through)
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ACRONYM ALLEY
ACRONYM
SUSPROC
SVHC
SVQ
SWEEP
TAB
TAG
TAIT
TB
TBT
TC
TCC
TENORM
TG
TLA
TMB
TMR
TPH
TPH
TR
TRACIMAT
TRACS
TRAN
TRAP
TRIS
DESCRIPTION
SUStainable PROduction & Consumption (action group of the European Commission JRCs Institute for Prospective Technological Studies)
Substances of Very High Concern (under REACH)
Scottish Vocational Qualification
Software for the Whole life Economic Evaluation of Pavements
Technical Assessment Body (defined within CPR)
Technical Advisory Group
Type Approval Installation Trial (applicable primarily to Asphalt mixtures)
Technical Board (CEN) see CEN TB
Technical Barrier to Trade (used in/by TRIS and WTO)
Technical Committee (CEN Committee e.g. TC 227 Road Materials)
The Concrete Centre
Technologically Enhanced Naturally Occurring Radioactive Materials
Task Group (a sub-group to a WG e.g. TC 227/WG1/TG3)
Trinidad Lake Asphalt
Technical Management Board
Total Material Requirement
Total Petroleum Hydrocarbons
Tonnes per Hour
Technical Report
Belgian C&D organisation guaranteeing quality and traceability of construction and demolition waste before processing
Traffic Speed Condition Surveys (Alternative method to SCRIM)
Transport and Tourism (European Parliament Committee)
Tar-contaminated Recycled Asphalt Pavement
Technical Regulation Information System (EC)
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ACRONYM ALLEY
ACRONYM
TRL
TS
TS
TSB
TSCS
TSD
TSI
TSRD
TSRDG
TSS
TSS
TT
UAP
UEPG
UIC
UKAS
UKPLG
UKQAA
UKCRIC
UNECE
UNI
UQ
URL
UTLAC
DESCRIPTION
Transport Research Laboratory (formerly TRRL)
Thin Surfacing
Technical Specification (CEN document can precede an EN Standard)
Technology Strategy Board
Thin Surface Course System
Traffic Speed Deflectometer
Trading Standards Institute
Technical Standards and Regulations Directive (No. 98/34/EC - European Directive covering the vetting of national standards and specification)
Traffic Signs Regulations and General Directions
Thin Surfacing System (encompasses all aspects including the asphalt mixture, site preparation and laying)
Traffic Systems and Signs (Highways England (formerly HA))
Type Testing
Unique Acceptance Procedure (Applies to the rapid approval of European Standards and other documents)
European Aggregates Association (Union Européenne des Producteurs de Granulats)
Unique Identification Code (e.g. a product code)
United Kingdom Accreditation Service
United Kingdom Pavement Liaison Group (Principle representation: HA Chair, MPA, ADEPT, Transport Scotland, NI and Wales)
United Kingdom Quality Ash Association
United Kingdom Collaboration for Research in Infrastructure and Cities
United Nations Economic Council for Europe
Italy's National Standards Body (Ente Nationale Italiano di Unificazione)
Updating Questionnaire (used by CEN)
Uniform Resource Locator (Weblink)
Ultra Thin Layer Asphalt Concrete
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ACRONYM ALLEY
ACRONYM
VCS
VOC
VOSA
VQ
WAC
WAG
WAMITAB
WCL
WDF
WEB
WEEE
WERD
WFD
WFT
WG
WI
WLC
WMA
WM2
WoISS
WPIC
WRAP
WS
WSS
DESCRIPTION
Visual Condition Survey
Volatile Organic Compound
Vehicle and Operator Services Agency
Vocational Qualifications
Waste Acceptance Criteria (testing)
Welsh Assembly Government
Waste Management Industry Training and Advisory Board (links to CoTC).
Waste Carriers Licence
Waste Derived Fuel
WEEE, ELV and Batteries
Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment
Western European Road Directors (now CEDR)
Waste Framework Diective (EC)
Without Further Testing
Working Group (sub-group to a Technical Committee)
Work Item (a standards project)
Whole-Life Cost (analysis)
Warm Mixed Asphalt
Hazardous waste - Interpretation of the definition and classification of hazardous waste
World of Iron and Steel Slag
Waste Protocols Implementation Committee (overarching all EA and EPOW waste Quality Protocols)
Waste & Resources Action Programme
Wehner Schultze (test for measuring potential resistance to skidding of asphalt samples)
Water Soluble Sulfate
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ACRONYM ALLEY
ACRONYM
WT
WTO
WTO TBT
XLPE
DESCRIPTION
Without Testing
World Trade Organisation (formed January 1995 after GATT)
World Trade Organisation Technical Barriers to Trade
Cross-Linked Polyethylene
700
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