Construction industry acronyms - U
This article presents a list of construction industry acronyms beginning with 'U'.
For other letters click on the list below:
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U/S - Underside
UA - Unit of Account
UAD - Urban Archaeological Databases
UB - Universal Beam
UBC - Uniform Building Code
UC - Universal Column
UCATT - Union of Construction, Allied Trades and Technicians
UCC - Universal Copyright Convention
UCITS - Undertakings for Collective Investment in Transferable Securities
UCO - Town and Country (Use Classes) Order
UCO - Use Classes Order
UCTA - Unfair Contract Terms Act
UCWI - urban catchment wetness index
UDC - Universal Decimal Classification
UDI - Useful Daylight Illuminance
UDL - Uniformly Distributed Load
UDP - Unitary Development Plan
UE - Urban exploration
UEAV - Upper Exposure Action Value
UEC - Unit Energy Consumption
UEL - Upper Exposure Limit
UF - Under Floor
UF - Urea Formaldehyde
UFAD - Underfloor Air Distribution
UFAS - Unwanted Fire Alarm Signal
UfH - Underfloor Heating
UHI / UHIE - Urban Heat Island Effect
UHM - Ultra High Modulus
UHPC - Ultra High-Performance Concrete / Ultra high performance fibre concrete.
UIT - Ultrasonic Impact Testing
UKAPIS - United Kingdom Air Pollution Information System
UKAS - United Kingdom Accreditation Service
UKCCRA - United Kingdom Climate Change Risk Assessment
UKCIP - United Kingdom Climate Impacts Programme
UKCP - UK Climate Projections
UKCP09 - United Kingdom Climate Projections 2009
UK-GBC - UK Green Building Council
UKTA - UK Thermography Association
UKWIR - UK Water Industry Research
UL - Upper Level
ULS - Ultimate Limit State
UNECE - United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
UNFCCC - United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
Uniclass - Unified Classification for the Construction Industry
UNO - Unless Noted Otherwise
UP - Ultrasonic Peening
UP - Unsaturated Polyester (paint, powder coatings, & bituminous felt)
UPC - Unacceptable Professional Conduct
UPF - Uranium Processing Facility
UPS - Uninterrupted Power Supply
uPVC - Unplasticated Polyvinyl Chloride (rainwater, soil & waste pipes, & roof sheeting)
UR - Urinal
URBAN - Flood Studies Report index of fractional urban extent
URBEXT1990 - FEH index of fractional urban extent
URBEXT2000 - Revised index of urban extent, measured differently from URBEXT1990
US - Ultimate State
USB - Universal Serial Bus
USF - Usable Square Feet / Footage
USFB - Ultra Shallow Floor Beam
USP - Unique Selling Point
UST - Underground Storage Tank
UTCCR - Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts Regulations
UTL - Unable To Lift
UTL - Utility
UTS - Ultimate Tensile Strength
UV - Ultra Violet
U-value - energy efficiency value of a material
UWC - User Worked Crossing
UWED - Use of Work Equipment Directive (EC)
UWFS - Unwanted Fire Signal
UXO - Unexploded Ordnance
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