Appendix B Appendix B R.S. Means Abbreviations This chapter provides a list of the abbreviations used in the R.S. Means databases viewed in the Assemblies and Unit Prices resource windows. BSD CostLink/AE User Manual 129 Appendix B : R.S. Means Abbreviations 130 BSD CostLink/AE User Manual Abbreviations A AAFES ABS A.C., AC ACI ACR ADA AD Addit. Adj. af AFUE AGA Agg. A.H., Ah A hr. A.H.U., AHU A.I.A. AIC Allow. alt., alt Alum. a.m. Amp. Anod. ANSI APA Approx. Apt. Asb. A.S.B.C. Asbe. ASCE. A.S.H.R.A.E. ASME ASTM Attchmt. Avg., Ave. AWG AWWA Bbl. B&B, BB B&S B.&W. b.c.c. B.C.Y. BE B.F. Bg. cem. BHP B.I. bidir. Bit., Bitum. Bit., Conc. Bk. Bkrs. Bldg., bldg Blk. Bm. Boil. bpm BR Brg. Brhe. Bric. Area Square Feet; Ampere Army and Air Force Exchange Service Acrylonitrile Butadiene Stryrene; Asbestos Bonded Steel Alternating Current; Air-Conditioning; Asbestos Cement; Plywood Grade A & C American Concrete Institute Air Conditioning Refrigeration Americans with Disabilities Act Plywood, Grade A & D Additional Adjustable Audio-frequency Annual Fuel Utilization Efficiency American Gas Association Aggregate Ampere Hours Ampere-hour Air Handling Unit American Institute of Architects Ampere Interrupting Capacity Allowance Alternate Aluminum Ante Meridiem Ampere Anodized American National Standards Institute American Plywood Association Approximate Apartment Asbestos American Standard Building Code Asbestos Worker American Society of Civil Engineers American Society of Heating, Refrig. & AC Engineers American Society of Mechanical Engineers American Society for Testing and Materials Attachment Average American Wire Gauge American Water Works Assoc. Barrel Grade B and Better; Balled & Burlapped Bell and Spigot Black and White Body-centered Cubic Bank Cubic Yards Bevel End Board Feet Bag of Cement Boiler Horsepower; Brake Horsepower Black Iron bidirectional Bituminous Bituminous Concrete Backed Breakers Building Block Beam Boilermaker Blows per Minute Bedroom Bearing Bricklayer Helper Bricklayer Brk., brk brkt Brng. Brs. Brz. Bsn. Btr. Btu BTUH Bu. BUR BX °C c C C/C C-C Cab Cair. Cal. Calc Cap. Carp. C.B. C.C.A. C.C.F. cd cd/sf CD CDX Cefi. Cem. CF C.F. CFM CFRP c.g. CHW C.I., CI C.I.P., CIP Circ. C.L. CL Clab. Clam C.L.F. CLF CLP cm CMP CMU CN Col. CO2 Comb. comm. Compr. Conc. Cont., cont Corr. Cos Cot Cov. C/P CPA Cplg. CPM CPVC C.Pr. CRC Creos. Crpt. CRT CS Brick Bracket Bearing Brass Bronze Basin Better British Thermal Unit BTU per Hour bushels Built-up Roofing Interlocked Armored Cable degree centegrade Conductivity, Copper Sweat Hundred; Centigrade Center to Center, Cedar on Cedar Center to Center Cabinet Air Tool Laborer caliper Calculated Capacity Carpenter Circuit Breaker Chromate Copper Arsenate Hundred Cubic Feet Candela Candela per Square Foot Grade of Plywood Face & Back Plywood, Grade C & D, exterior glue Cement Finisher Cement Hundred Feet Cubic Feet Cubic Feet per Minute Carbon Fiber Reinforced Plastic Center of Gravity Chilled Water; Commercial Hot Water Cast Iron Cast in Place Circuit Carload Lot Chain Link Common Laborer Common maintenance laborer Hundred Linear Feet Current Limiting Fuse Cross Linked Polyethylene Centimeter Corr. Metal Pipe Concrete Masonry Unit Change Notice Column Carbon Dioxide Combination Commercial, Communication Compressor Concrete Continuous; Continued, Container Corrugated Cosine Cotangent Cover Cedar on Paneling Control Point Adjustment Coupling Critical Path Method Chlorinated Polyvinyl Chloride Hundred Pair Cold Rolled Channel Creosote Carpet & Linoleum Layer Cathode-ray Tube Carbon Steel, Constant Shear Bar Joist Csc C.S.F. CSI CT CTS Cu Cu. Ft. cw C.W. Cwt. C.W.X. C.Y. C.Y./Hr. Cyl. d D Dis., Disch. Db Dbl. DC DDC Demob. d.f.t. d.f.u. D.H. DHW DI Diag. Diam., Dia Distrib. Div. Dk. D.L. DLH dlx Do. DOP Dp., dp D.P.S.T. Dr. DR Drink. D.S. D.S.A. D.S.B. Dty. DWV DX dyn e E Ea. EB Econ. E.C.Y EDP EIFS E.D.R. Eq. EL Elec. Elev. EMT Eng. EPDM EPS Eqhv. Eqlt. Eqmd. Eqmm. Eqol. Equip. ERW Cosecant Hundred Square Feet Construction Specifications Institute Current Transformer Copper Tube Size Copper, Cubic Cubic Foot Continuous Wave Cool White; Cold Water 100 Pounds Cool White Deluxe Cubic Yard (27 cubic feet) Cubic Yard per Hour Cylinder Penny (nail size) Deep; Depth; Discharge Discharge Decibel Double Direct Current Direct Digital Control Demobilization Dry Film Thickness Drainage Fixture Units Double Hung Domestic Hot Water Ductile Iron Diagonal Diameter Distribution Division Deck Dead Load; Diesel Deep Long Span Bar Joist Deluxe Ditto Dioctyl Phthalate Penetration Test (Air Filters) Depth Double Pole, Single Throw Drive Dimension Ratio Drinking Double Strength Double Strength A Grade Double Strength B Grade Duty Drain Waste Vent Deluxe White, Direct Expansion Dyne Eccentricity Equipment Only; East; emissivity Each Encased Burial Economy Embankment Cubic Yards Electronic Data Processing Exterior Insulation Finish System Equiv. Direct Radiation Equation elevation Electrician; Electrical Elevator; Elevating Electrical Metallic Conduit; Thin Wall Conduit Engine, Engineered Ethylene Propylene Diene Monomer Expanded Polystyrene Equip. Oper., Heavy Equip. Oper., Light Equip. Oper., Medium Equip. Oper., Master Mechanic Equip. Oper., Oilers Equipment Electric Resistance Welded 871 Abbreviations E.S. Est. esu E.W. EWT Excav. excl Exp., exp Ext., ext Extru. f. F Fab., fab FBGS F.C. f.c.c. f′c. F.E. FEP F.G. F.H.A. Fig. Fin. FIPS Fixt. FJP Fl. Oz. Flr. FM Fmg. FM/UL Fdn. FNPT Fori. Foro. Fount. fpm FPT Fr F.R. FRK FSK FRP FS FSC Ft., ft Ftng. Ftg. Ft lb. Furn. FVNR FVR FXM Fy. g G Ga. Gal., gal. gpm, GPM Galv., galv GC/MS Gen. GFI GFRC Glaz. GPD gpf GPH GPM GR Gran. Grnd. GVW GWB 872 Energy Saver Estimated Electrostatic Units Each Way Entering Water Temperature Excavation Excluding Expansion, Exposure Exterior; Extension Extrusion Fiber stress Fahrenheit; Female; Fill Fabricated; fabric Fiberglass Footcandles Face-centered Cubic Compressive Stress in Concrete; Extreme Compressive Stress Front End Fluorinated Ethylene Propylene (Teflon) Flat Grain Federal Housing Administration Figure Finished Female Iron Pipe Size Fixture Finger jointed and primed Fluid Ounces Floor Frequency Modulation; Factory Mutual Framing Factory Mutual/Underwriters Labs Foundation Female National Pipe Thread Foreman, Inside Foreman, Outside Fountain Feet per Minute Female Pipe Thread Frame Fire Rating Foil Reinforced Kraft Foil/scrim/kraft Fiberglass Reinforced Plastic Forged Steel Cast Body; Cast Switch Box Foot; Feet Fitting Footing Foot Pound Furniture Full Voltage Non-Reversing Full Voltage Reversing Female by Male Minimum Yield Stress of Steel Gram Gauss Gauge Gallon Gallon per Minute Galvanized Gas Chromatograph/Mass Spectrometer General Ground Fault Interrupter Glass Fiber Reinforced Concrete Glazier Gallons per Day Gallon per flush Gallons per Hour Gallons per Minute Grade Granular Ground Gross Vehicle Weight Gypsum wall board H HC H.D., HD H.D.O. HDPE Hdr. Hdwe. H.I.D., HID Help. HEPA Hg HIC HM HMWPE HO Horiz. H.P., HP H.P.F. Hr. Hrs./Day HSC Ht. Htg. Htrs. HVAC Hvy. HW Hyd.; Hydr. Hz I. IBC I.C. ID I.D. I.F. I.M.C. In. Incan. Incl. Int. Inst. Insul., insul I.P. I.P.S., IPS IPT I.W. J J.I.C. K K.A.H. kcmil KD K.D.A.T. kg kG kgf kHz Kip KJ K.L. K.L.F. Km KO K.S.F. K.S.I. kV kVA kVAR KW KWh L Lab. lat High Henry High Capacity Heavy Duty; High Density High Density Overlaid High density polyethelene plastic Header Hardware High Intensity Discharge Helper Average High Efficiency Particulate Air Filter Mercury High Interrupting Capacity Hollow Metal high molecular weight polyethylene High Output Horizontal Horsepower; High Pressure High Power Factor Hour Hours per Day High Short Circuit Height Heating Heaters Heating, Ventilation & AirConditioning Heavy Hot Water Hydraulic Hertz (cycles) Moment of Inertia International Building Code Interrupting Capacity Inside Diameter Inside Dimension; Identification Inside Frosted Intermediate Metal Conduit Inch Incandescent Included; Including Interior Installation Insulation/Insulated Iron Pipe Iron Pipe Size Iron Pipe Threaded Indirect Waste Joule Joint Industrial Council Thousand;Thousand Pounds; Heavy Wall Copper Tubing, Kelvin Thousand Amp. Hours Thousand Circular Mils Knock Down Kiln Dried After Treatment Kilogram Kilogauss Kilogram Force Kilohertz 1000 Pounds Kiljoule Effective Length Factor Kips per Linear Foot Kilometer Knock Out Kips per Square Foot Kips per Square Inch Kilovolt Kilovolt Ampere Kilovar (Reactance) Kilowatt Kilowatt-hour Labor Only; Length; Long; Medium Wall Copper Tubing Labor Latitude Lath. Lav. lb.; # L.B., LB L. & E. lb./hr. lb./L.F. lbf/sq.in. L.C.L. L.C.Y. Ld. LE LED L.F. L.F. Nose L.F. Rsr Lg. L&H LH L.H. L.L., LL L.L.D. lm lm/sf lm/W LOA log L-O-L long. L.P., LP L.P.F. LR L.S. Lt. Lt. Ga. L.T.L. Lt. Wt. L.V. M M2CA m/hr.; M.H. mA Mach. Mag. Str. Maint. Marb. Mat; Mat’l. Max. MBF MBH MC MCC M.C.F. MCFM M.C.M. MCP MD MDF M.D.O. Med. MF M.F.B.M. Mfg. Mfrs. mg MGD MGPH MH, M.H. MHz Mi. MI MIPS mj m mm Mill. Min., min. Lather Lavatory Pound Load Bearing; L Conduit Body Labor & Equipment Pounds per Hour Pounds per Linear Foot Pound-force per Square Inch Less than Carload Lot Loose Cubic Yard Load Lead Equivalent Light Emitting Diode Linear Foot Linear Foot of Stair Nosing Linear Foot of Stair Riser Long; Length; Large Light and Heat Long Span Bar Joist Labor Hours Live Load Lamp Lumen Depreciation Lumen Lumen per Square Foot Lumen per Watt Length Over All Logarithm Lateralolet longitude Liquefied Petroleum; Low Pressure Low Power Factor Long Radius Lump Sum Light Light Gauge Less than Truckload Lot Lightweight Low Voltage Thousand; Material; Male; Light Wall Copper Tubing Meters Squared Contact Area Man-hour Milliampere Machine Magnetic Starter Maintenance Marble Setter Material Maximum Thousand Board Feet Thousand BTU’s per hr. Metal Clad Cable Motor Control Center Thousand Cubic Feet Thousand Cubic Feet per Minute Thousand Circular Mils Motor Circuit Protector Medium Duty Medium-density fibreboard Medium Density Overlaid Medium Thousand Feet Thousand Feet Board Measure Manufacturing Manufacturers Milligram Million Gallons per Day Thousand Gallons per Hour Manhole; Metal Halide; Man-Hour Megahertz Mile Malleable Iron; Mineral Insulated Male Iron Pipe Size Mechanical Joint Meter Millimeter Millwright Minimum, minute Abbreviations Misc. ml M.L.F. Mo. Mobil. Mog. MPH MPT MRGWB Miscellaneous Milliliter, Mainline Thousand Linear Feet Month Mobilization Mogul Base Miles per Hour Male Pipe Thread Moisture Resistant Gypsum Wallboard MRT Mile Round Trip ms Millisecond M.S.F. Thousand Square Feet Mstz. Mosaic & Terrazzo Worker M.S.Y. Thousand Square Yards Mtd., mtd., mtd Mounted Mthe. Mosaic & Terrazzo Helper Mtng. Mounting Mult. Multi; Multiply M.V.A. Million Volt Amperes M.V.A.R. Million Volt Amperes Reactance MV Megavolt MW Megawatt MXM Male by Male MYD Thousand Yards N Natural; North nA Nanoampere NA Not Available; Not Applicable N.B.C. National Building Code NC Normally Closed NEMA National Electrical Manufacturers Assoc. NEHB Bolted Circuit Breaker to 600V. NFPA National Fire ProtectionAssociation NLB Non-Load-Bearing NM Non-Metallic Cable nm Nanometer No. Number NO Normally Open N.O.C. Not Otherwise Classified Nose. Nosing NPT National Pipe Thread NQOD Combination Plug-on/Bolt on Circuit Breaker to 240V. N.R.C., NRC Noise Reduction Coefficient/ Nuclear Regulator Commission N.R.S. Non Rising Stem ns Nanosecond nW Nanowatt OB Opposing Blade OC On Center OD Outside Diameter O.D. Outside Dimension ODS Overhead Distribution System O.G. Ogee O.H. Overhead O&P Overhead and Profit Oper. Operator Opng. Opening Orna. Ornamental OSB Oriented Strand Board OS&Y Outside Screw and Yoke OSHA Occupational Safety and Health Act Ovhd. Overhead OWG Oil,Water or Gas Oz. Ounce P. Pole;Applied Load; Projection p. Page Pape. Paperhanger P.A.P.R. Powered Air Purifying Respirator PAR Parabolic Reflector P.B., PB Push Button Pc., Pcs. Piece, Pieces P.C. Portland Cement;Power Connector P.C.F. Pounds per Cubic Foot PCM Phase Contrast Microscopy PDCA P.E., PE P.E.C.I. Perf. PEX Ph. P.I. Pile. Pkg. Pl. Plah. Plas. plf Pluh. Plum. Ply. p.m. Pntd. Pord. pp PP, PPL P.P.M. Pr. P.E.S.B. Prefab. Prefin. Prop. PSF, psf PSI, psi PSIG PSP Pspr. Psst. P.T. P. & T. Ptd. Ptns. Pu PVC Pvmt. PRV Pwr. Q Qt. Quan., Qty. Q.C. r R R.C.P. Rect. recpt. Reg. Reinf. Req’d. Res. Resi. RF RFID Rgh. RGS RHW rms Rnd. Rodm. Rofc. Rofp. Rohe. Rots. R.O.W. RPM R.S. Rsr RT S. SBS Painting and Decorating Contractors of America Professional Engineer; Porcelain Enamel; Polyethylene; Plain End Porcelain Enamel on Cast Iron Perforated Cross linked polyethylene Phase Pressure Injected Pile Driver Package Plate Plasterer Helper Plasterer Pounds Per Linear Foot Plumbers Helper Plumber Plywood Post Meridiem Painted Painter, Ordinary Pages Polypropylene Parts per Million Pair Pre-engineered Steel Building Prefabricated Prefinished Propelled Pounds per Square Foot Pounds per Square Inch Pounds per Square Inch Gauge Plastic Sewer Pipe Painter, Spray Painter, Structural Steel Potential Transformer Pressure & Temperature Painted Partitions Ultimate Load Polyvinyl Chloride Pavement Pressure Relief Valve Power Quantity Heat Flow Quart Quantity Quick Coupling Radius of Gyration Resistance Reinforced Concrete Pipe Rectangle receptacle Regular Reinforced Required Resistant Residential Radio Frequency Radio-frequency identification Rough Rigid Galvanized Steel Rubber, Heat & Water Resistant; Residential Hot Water Root Mean Square Round Rodman Roofer, Composition Roofer, Precast Roofer Helpers (Composition) Roofer,Tile & Slate Right of Way Revolutions per Minute Rapid Start Riser Round Trip Suction; Single Entrance; South Styrene Butadiere Styrene SC SCFM Scaf. Sch., Sched. S.C.R. S.D. SDR S.E. Sel. SER, SEU S.F. S.F.C.A. S.F. Flr. S.F.G. S.F. Hor. SFR S.F. Shlf. S4S Shee. Sin. Skwk. SL S.L. Sldr. SLH S.N. SO S-O-L sp S.P. Spri. spwg S.P.D.T. SPF S.P.S.T. SPT Sq. Sq. Hd. Sq. In. S.S. S.S.B. sst, ss Sswk. Sswl. St.; Stl. STC Std. Stg. STK STP Stpi. Str. Strd. Struct. Sty. Subj. Subs. Surf. Sw. Swbd. S.Y. Syn. S.Y.P. Sys. t. T Tan T.C. T&C T.D. Tdd T.E.M. temp TFFN Screw Cover Standard Cubic Feet per Minute Scaffold Schedule Modular Brick Sound Deadening Standard Dimension Ratio Surfaced Edge Select Service Entrance Cable Square Foot Square Foot Contact Area Square Foot of Floor Square Foot of Ground Square Foot Horizontal Square Feet of Radiation Square Foot of Shelf Surface 4 Sides Sheet Metal Worker Sine Skilled Worker Saran Lined Slimline Solder Super Long Span Bar Joist Solid Neutral Stranded with oil resistant inside insulation Socketolet Standpipe Static Pressure; Single Pole; SelfPropelled Sprinkler Installer Static Pressure Water Gauge Single Pole, Double Throw Spruce Pine Fir; Sprayed Polyurethane Foam Single Pole, Single Throw Standard Pipe Thread Square; 100 Square Feet Square Head Square Inch Single Strength; Stainless Steel Single Strength B Grade Stainless Steel Structural Steel Worker Structural Steel Welder Steel Sound Transmission Coefficient Standard Staging Select Tight Knot Standard Temperature & Pressure Steamfitter, Pipefitter Strength; Starter; Straight Stranded Structural Story Subject Subcontractors Surface Switch Switchboard Square Yard Synthetic Southern Yellow Pine System Thickness Temperature;Ton Tangent Terra Cotta Threaded and Coupled Temperature Difference Telecommunications Device for the Deaf Transmission Electron Microscopy Temperature,Tempered,Temporary Nylon Jacketed Wire 873 Abbreviations TFE T. & G. Th.,Thk. Thn. Thrded Tilf. Tilh. THHN THW. THWN T.L.,TL T.M. Tot. T-O-L tmpd TPO T.S. Tr. Transf. Trhv. Trlr Trlt. TTY TV T.W. UCI UF UGND UHF U.I. 874 Tetrafluoroethylene (Teflon) Tongue & Groove; Tar & Gravel Thick Thin Threaded Tile Layer, Floor Tile Layer, Helper Nylon Jacketed Wire Insulated Strand Wire Nylon Jacketed Wire Truckload Track Mounted Total Threadolet Tempered Thermoplastic Polyolefin Trigger Start Trade Transformer Truck Driver, Heavy Trailer Truck Driver, Light Teletypewriter Television Thermoplastic Water Resistant Wire Uniform Construction Index Underground Feeder Underground Feeder Ultra High Frequency United Inch U.L., UL Uld. Unfin. UPS URD US USGBC USP UTMCD UTP V VA V.C.T. VAV VC VDC Vent. Vert. V.F. V.G. VHF VHO Vib. VLF VOC Vol. VRP W Underwriters Laboratory unloading Unfinished Uninterruptible Power Supply Underground Residential Distribution United States U.S. Green Building Council United States Primed Uniform Traffic Manual For Control Devices Unshielded Twisted Pair Volt Volt Amperes Vinyl Composition Tile Variable Air Volume Veneer Core Volts Direct Current Ventilation Vertical Vinyl Faced Vertical Grain Very High Frequency Very High Output Vibrating Vertical Linear Foot Volitile Organic Compound Volume Vinyl Reinforced Polyester Wire;Watt;Wide;West w/ W.C.,WC W.F. W.G. Wldg. W. Mile W-O-L W.R. Wrck. W.S.P. WT.,Wt. WWF XFER XFMR XHD XHHW, XLPE XLP Xport Y yd yr Δ % ∼ ∅ @ # < > Z With Water Column;Water Closet Wide Flange Water Gauge Welding Wire Mile Weldolet Water Resistant Wrecker Water, Steam, Petroleum Weight Welded Wire Fabric Transfer Transformer Extra Heavy Duty Cross-Linked Polyethylene Wire Insulation Cross-linked Polyethylene Transport Wye Yard Year Delta Percent Approximately Phase; diameter At Pound; Number Less Than Greater Than zone