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  2. Engineering, procurement, and construction - Wikipedia

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    The EPC contractor coordinates all design, procurement and construction work and ensures that the whole project is completed as required and in time. They may or may not undertake actual site work. EPC companies are often used in large-scale projects, such as power plants, refineries, chemical processing facilities, infrastructure projects, and ...

  3. Earned value management - Wikipedia

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    According to the PMBOK (7th edition) by the Project Management Institute (PMI), Estimate at completion (EAC) is the "expected total cost of completing all work expressed as the sum of the actual cost to date and the estimate to complete." [19] EAC is the manager's projection of total cost of the project at completion.

  4. Engineering drawing abbreviations and symbols - Wikipedia

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    CAD: computer-aided design, computer-aided drafting; cadmium [plating]: CAGE: Commercial and Government Entity [code]: A CAGE code is a unique identifier to label an entity (that is, a specific government agency or corporation at a specific site) that is a CDA, ODA, or MFR of the part defined by the drawing.

  5. Design–build - Wikipedia

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    Its membership is composed of design and construction industry professionals as well as project owners. DBIA promotes the value of design–build project delivery and teaches the effective integration of design and construction services to ensure success for owners and design and construction practitioners.

  6. Eurasian Conformity mark - Wikipedia

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    The Eurasian Conformity mark (EAC, Russian: Евразийское соответствие (ЕАС)) is a certification mark to indicate products that conform to all technical regulations of the Eurasian Customs Union. It means that the EAC-marked products meet all requirements of the corresponding technical regulations and have passed all ...

  7. PC strand - Wikipedia

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    To 15-7Φ5, for example, 5 said a single diameter 5.0mm of steel, 7Φ5 said seven of the steel wire to form a strand, and 15 that the diameter of each strand of 15mm, the total meaning is "one The beam consists of 7 strands of diameter 15 mm (each having a total diameter of about 15.24 mm, a dimensional deviation +0.40 -0.20; a diameter of ...

  8. Glossary of civil engineering - Wikipedia

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    Also Abrams' water-cement ratio law. A law which states that the strength of a concrete mix is inversely related to the mass ratio of water to cement. As the water content increases, the strength of the concrete decreases. abrasion The process of scuffing, scratching, wearing down, marring, or rubbing away a substance or substrate. It can be intentionally imposed in a controlled process using ...

  9. List of information technology initialisms - Wikipedia

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    PC: Personal computer (host) Hardware PIM: Personal information manager Software category PCM: Pulse-code modulation Physical layer ITU-T G.711: PDU: Protocol data unit (such as segment, packet, frame, etc.) Multiple layers Fed Std 1037C: POP3: Post Office Protocol, version 3 Application layer RFC 1939 POP: Point of presence Telecom Telecom ...