FOREWORD - 4_150

UFC 4-150-06

12 December 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 Documents 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 , 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 .

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

following sources:

Construction Criteria Base (CCB) system maintained by the 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.

Deputy Civil Engineer

Deputy Chief of Staff, Installations & Logistics

Department of the Air Force

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