DefenseLINK News: DoD Establishes Unified Facility Criteria
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No. 613-00
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October 6, 2000
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IMMEDIATE RELEASE
DOD ESTABLISHES UNIFIED FACILITY CRITERIA
The Department of Defense has begun a five-year consolidation effort to unify all design and
construction technical criteria. This move will enhance the Department's ability to develop and maintain
technical criteria that are current with technological advances and industry standards.
Along with the office of the Secretary of Defense, key players in this program are the U. S. Army Corps
of Engineers (USACE), Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) and the Air Force Civil
Engineer Support Agency (AFCESA). These organizations have established the Tri-Service Committee
for Unified Design Guidance to manage this program under the direction of the chief engineers of each
service and the deputy undersecretary of Defense for installations. Officials say the unified criteria
program will greatly simplify the way architectural and engineering firms do business with DoD.
Under this consolidation, the military departments expect to convert most of the existing facility-related
handbooks, design manuals, engineering manuals, and technical manuals into Unified Facilities Criteria
(UFC) documents. The conversion also will utilize non-government standards to the greatest extent
possible.
A comprehensive UFC index listing new documents with service criteria will be available soon. The
index, new UFC documents, and additional information on the UFC program are available from the
services or from the National Institute of Building Sciences (NIBS) via the Construction Criteria Base
(CCB) and the Whole Building Design Guide (WBDG).
For further details, visit the following Internet sites:
USACE: http://www.hnd.usace.army.mil/techinfo/ufc.htm
NAVFAC: http://criteria.navfac.navy.mil/criteria
AFCESA: http://www.afcesa.af.mil
NIBS/CCB: http://www.ccb.org
NIBS/WBDG: http://www.wbdg.org
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