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14 February 2001

FOREWORD

The Unified Facilities Criteria (UFC) system provides planning, design, construction, operations

and maintenance criteria, and applies to all service commands having military construction

responsibilities. UFC will be used for all service projects and work for other customers where

appropriate.

UFC are living documents and will be periodically reviewed, updated, and made available to

users as part of the Services' responsibility for providing technical criteria for military

construction. Headquarters, United States Army Corps of Engineers (HQUSACE), Naval

Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC), and Air Force Civil Engineer Support Agency

(AFCESA) are responsible for administration of the UFC system. Technical content of UFC is

the responsibility of the preparing tri-service committee. Recommended changes with

supporting rationale should be sent to the respective service proponent office, as follows:

HQUSACE, ATTN: CECW-E, 20 Massachusetts Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20314 -1000 or the

Recommended Changes To Engineering Docume nts page on the TECHINFO site listed below.

Commander, Atlantic Division, Naval Facilities Engineering Command, 1510 Gilbert Street (ATTN:

NAVFAC Criteria Office), Norfolk, Virginia 23511-2699 or ufc@efdlant.navfac.navy.mil, by

commercial telephone (757)322-4200 or DSN 262-4200, or by facsimile machine to (757) 322-4416

Air Force Civil Engineer Support Agency, 139 Barnes Drive, Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida

32403-5319 or larry.spangler@Tyndall.af.mil.

UFC are effective upon issuance. UFC are distributed only in electronic media from the

following sources:

USACE TECHINFO Internet site http://www.hnd.usace.army.mil/techinfo/index.htm.

NAVFAC Criteria Office Internet site http://criteria.navfac.navy.mil/criteria.

Construction Criteria Base (CCB) system maintained by t he National Institute of Building

Sciences at Internet site http://www.nibs.org/ccb/.

Hard copies of UFC printed from electronic media should be checked against the current

electronic version prior to use to ensure that they are current.

AUTHORIZED BY:

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Dwight A. Beranek, P.E.

Dr. Get Moy, P.E.

Chief, Engineering and Construction Division

Chief Engineer and

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Director of Planning and Engineering,

Naval Facilities Engineering Command

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Michael Aimone, P.E.

Frank Lane

Deputy Civil Engineer

Director of Analysis & Investment

Deputy Chief of Staff, Installations & Logistics

Deputy Under Secretary of Defense

Department of the Air Force

for Installations

Department of Defense