Table of Contents
Preface
PART 1—ORGANIZATION AND OPERATION OF TECHNICAL COMMITTEES
CHAPTER 1—ORGANIZATION
1.1—Technical Activities Committee (TAC)
1.1.1 TAC (Secretary)
1.1.2 TAC Construction Standards Committee (TCSC)
1.1.3 TAC Repair and Rehabilitation Committee (TRRC)
1.2—Technical committees
1.2.1 Number designations
1.2.2 Comparison of subcommittee and task groups
1.2.3 Subcommittees
1.2.3.1 Editorial subcommittee
1.2.3.2 Steering subcommittee
1.2.3.3 Liaison subcommittee
1.2.4 Task groups
1.3—Committee establishment, reorganization, and discharge
1.3.1 Establishment
1.3.1.1 Request to establish a new technical committee
1.3.1.2 Request to establish an Innovation Task Group (ITG)
1.3.2 Reorganization
1.3.2.1 Reorganization with discharge of members
1.3.2.2 Reorganization with retention of members
1.3.3 Discharge
1.4—Joint committees and committee cooperation with other organizations
1.4.1 Cooperation
1.4.1.1 Seminars or workshops with cosponsoring organizations
1.4.2 Joint committees
1.5—Membership categories
1.5.1 Voting members
1.5.1.1 Qualifications
1.5.1.2 Requirements
1.5.1.3 Privileges
1.5.1.4 Term
1.5.1.5 Appointment
1.5.2 Associate members
1.5.2.1 Qualifications
1.5.2.2 Requirements
1.5.2.3 Privileges
1.5.2.4 Term
1.5.2.5 Appointment
1.5.3 Consulting members
1.5.3.1 Qualifications
1.5.3.2 Requirements
1.5.3.3 Privileges
1.5.3.4 Term
1.5.3.5 Appointment
1.5.4 Liaison members
1.5.4.1 Qualifications
1.5.4.2 Requirements
1.5.4.3 Privileges
1.5.4.4 Term
1.5.4.5 Appointment
1.6—Committee membership
1.6.1 Application for membership
1.6.2 Appointments and membership changes
1.6.3 Appointments to joint committees
1.6.4 Overlap of membership between committees
1.6.5 Appointment not approved
1.6.5.1 Committees with restricted membership
1.6.6 Membership termination
1.6.7 Resignation from membership
1.6.8 Appeal of membership action
1.7—Balance of interests
1.7.1 Interest categories
1.7.1.1 Producer
1.7.1.2 User
1.7.1.3 Supplemental categories
1.7.1.4 General interest
1.7.2 Safety- and non-safety-related standards and documents
1.7.3 Criteria for committee balance
1.7.4 Membership termination to achieve balance
1.8—Committee officers
1.8.1 Chair
1.8.1.1 Chair qualifications
1.8.1.2 Chair term
1.8.1.3 Chair candidates
1.8.1.4 Chair appointment
1.8.1.5 Chair resignation
1.8.2 Vice chair
1.8.3 Secretary
CHAPTER 2—TECHNICAL COMMITTEE OPERATIONS
2.1—Mission and title
2.2—Goals
2.2.1 Develop new documents
2.2.2 Maintain existing documents
2.2.3 Sponsor convention sessions and related publications
2.2.4 Develop seminars
2.2.5 Develop video information
2.3—Meetings
2.3.1 Conducting committee meetings
2.3.2 Quorum
2.3.3 Administrative actions
2.3.4 Convention committee meetings
2.3.5 Interim committee meetings
2.3.5.1 Physical interim meetings
2.3.5.2 Virtual interim meetings
2.3.6 Closed meetings
2.3.7 Visitors
2.3.8 Agenda
2.3.9 Minutes
2.4—Communication
2.4.1 Correspondence within a committee
2.4.2 Correspondence between committees
2.4.3 Correspondence with TAC and ACI headquarters
2.4.4 Discussion in outside publications
2.4.5 Coordination among committees
2.4.6 Committee reporting and webpage management
2.4.7 Questionnaires
2.5—Breakfast meeting for technical committee chairs
2.6—Technical committee certificates
2.6.1 Chair certificates
2.6.2 Outstanding service by committee members
2.6.3 Del Bloem Distinguished Service Award
2.7—Committee-related finances
2.7.1 ACI Foundation funding
2.7.2 Concrete Research Council (CRC)
2.7.3 Strategic Development Council (SDC)
2.7.4 Committee work expenses
2.8—Staff assistance
CHAPTER 3—BALLOTING
3.1—Voting methods and rules
3.1.1 Administrative ballots
3.2—Letter ballots
3.2.1 Passage of letter ballot items
3.2.2 Initiation and format
3.2.3 Time frame
3.2.4 Distribution
3.2.5 Votes
3.2.5.1 Affirmative votes
3.2.5.2 Affirmative votes with comments
3.2.5.3 Negative votes with reason
3.2.5.4 Abstentions
3.2.5.5 Ballots not returned
3.2.5.6 Comments from nonvoting members
3.2.6 Analysis and further action
3.2.6.1 Updating results
3.2.6.2 Revising and reballoting
3.2.7 Subcommittee letter ballots
3.2.8 Patented items
3.3—Meeting ballots
3.3.1 Passage of item by meeting ballot
3.3.2 Exception to the 40 percent rule
3.4—Consideration of negative votes
3.4.1 Withdrawal of negative vote (no change to document)
3.4.2 Unrelated to ballot item (no change to document)
3.4.3 Nonpersuasive (no change to document)
3.4.4 Persuasive (technical change to document)
3.4.5 Appeals
3.5—Ballot summaries
3.6—Procedures when ACI is the minor sponsor
PART 2—ACI STANDARDS
CHAPTER 4—DEVELOPMENT OF STANDARDS
4.1—Description
4.1.1 Standards
4.1.1.1 Code requirements
4.1.1.2 Code cases
4.1.1.3 Acceptance criteria
4.1.1.4 Design specifications
4.1.2 Construction standards
4.1.2.1 Construction specifications
4.1.2.2 Material specifications
4.1.2.3 Test methods
4.1.2.4 Inspection services specifications
4.1.2.5 Testing services specifications
4.2—Procedures
4.2.1 New standard
4.2.2 Revising existing standards
4.2.2.1 Reapproval
4.2.2.2 Revision
4.2.2.3 Withdrawal
4.2.3 Maintenance of the content of ITG standards
4.2.4 Committee editorial review
4.2.5 Circulating draft standards
4.2.6 Coordination of ACI standards
4.2.6.1 Industry standards
4.2.6.2 Interaction among standards-writing committees
4.2.6.3 Proposed changes from outside of committee
4.2.6.4 Coordination among technical committees
4.2.6.5 Standards sponsored with other ACI technical committees
4.2.6.6 Coordination with the Construction Liaison Committee (CLC)
4.2.6.7 Coordination with TAC
4.2.6.8 Coordination of terminology
4.2.7 Translation of ACI standards
4.2.8 Patented items
4.2.9 Errata
4.3—Writing standards
4.3.1 Format
4.3.2 Units
4.3.3 Notation
4.3.4 Style
4.4—TAC review
4.4.1 Submission package
4.4.2 Staff editorial review
4.4.3 TAC review
4.4.3.1 TAC review group
4.4.3.2 Review comment classifications
4.4.4 TAC decision
4.4.4.1 Standard approved
4.4.4.2 Responding to TAC comments
4.4.4.3 Standard not approved
4.5—Public discussion process
4.5.1 Release for public discussion
4.5.2 Public discussion
4.5.2.1 Code case
4.5.2.2 Provisional standard
4.5.3 Committee closure
4.5.4 Release for publication
4.5.5 Adoption as an ACI standard
4.5.6 Approval as an American National Standard
4.6—Appeal of committee actions related to standards development
4.6.1 Appeal requirements and procedure for submittal
4.6.2 Appeal review and adjudication process
CHAPTER 5—FORMAT AND LANGUAGE FOR CODES
5.1—General
5.2—Organization
5.2.1 Front matter
5.2.2 Code chapters
5.2.3 Back matter
5.2.4 Article titles
5.2.5 Section and subsection titles
5.2.6 Provision numbering
5.3—Language
5.3.1 Verb usage
5.3.2 Adjectives and adverbs
5.3.3 Comparative phrases
5.3.4 Preferred words or phrases
5.4—References
5.4.1 References to provisions and chapters
5.4.2 Compliance phrases
5.4.3 Referenced standard style
5.5—Commentary to a code
5.5.1 General
5.5.2 Commentary references
5.5.3 Cited reference style
CHAPTER 6—FORMAT AND LANGUAGE FOR CONSTRUCTION SPECIFICATIONS
6.1—General
6.2—Format
6.2.1 Single-item specifications
6.2.2 Numbering within single-item specifications
6.2.3 Multi-item specifications
6.2.4 Numbering within multi-item specifications
6.2.5 Description of title page
6.2.6 Description of Part I, General
6.2.6.1 Scope
6.2.6.2 Interpretation
6.2.6.3 Definitions
6.2.6.4 Referenced standards
6.2.6.5 Personnel certification programs
6.2.6.6 Plant certification programs
6.2.6.7 Submittals
6.2.6.8 Delivery, storage, and handling
6.2.6.9 Quality assurance and quality control
6.2.7 Description of Part 2, Products
6.2.7.1 Materials
6.2.7.2 Mixtures
6.2.7.3 Fabrication
6.2.7.4 Source quality control
6.2.8 Description of Part 3, Execution
6.2.8.1 Preparation
6.2.8.2 Sequence
6.2.8.3 Installation
6.2.8.4 Post-installation testing
6.2.8.5 Repair
6.2.8.6 Protection
6.2.9 Description of Notes to Specifiers
6.2.9.1 General notes, foreword to checklists, and list of references
6.2.9.2 Mandatory requirements checklists
6.2.9.3 Optional requirements checklists
6.2.9.4 Checklist format
6.2.9.5 Referral phrases and Checklists
6.3—Language
6.3.1 Tolerances
6.3.2 Verb usage
6.3.3 Gender-specific language
6.3.4 Subjective language
6.3.5 Time-related requirements
6.3.6 Qualitative requirements
6.3.7 Repetition of items
6.3.8 Jargon and slang
6.3.9 Approved
6.3.10 Responsibilities
6.3.11 Referral phrase
6.3.12 Compliance phrases
6.3.13 Article use
6.3.14 Pronouns
6.3.15 Options
6.3.16 Conditional phrases (use of “it,” “when,” and “where”)
6.4—Referenced standards
6.4.1 Standards in specification text
6.4.2 References in checklists
6.4.3 Reference to other ACI construction specifications
6.4.3.1 Referencing entire specification
6.4.3.2 Referencing sections of multi-item specifications
6.5—Guide for specifying concrete construction
6.5.1 Format
6.6—Appendixes
PART 3—GUIDES AND REPORTS
CHAPTER 7—DEVELOPMENT OF GUIDES AND REPORTS
7.1—General
7.2—Description of guides and reports
7.2.1 Guides
7.2.1.1 Handbooks and manuals
7.2.1.2 TechNotes
7.2.2 Reports
7.2.2.1 Emerging Technology Report (ETR)
7.2.3 Errata
7.3—Development
7.3.1 New guides and reports
7.3.2 Existing guides and reports
7.3.2.1 Reapproval
7.3.2.2 Revision
7.3.2.3 Withdrawal
7.3.2.4 ITG guides and reports
7.3.3 Documents sponsored with other ACI technical committees
7.3.4 Restrictions on circulating drafts
7.3.5 Coordination of information
7.3.5.1 Technical committees
7.3.5.2 Construction Liaison Committee (CLC)
7.3.5.3 Terminology
7.3.6 Translation of ACI documents
7.3.7 Guides and reports authored by ACI chapters
7.4—Writing guides and reports
7.4.1 Format
7.4.2 Units
7.4.3 Notation
7.4.4 Style
7.4.5 Editorial review
7.5—TAC review
7.5.1 Submission package
7.5.2 Staff editorial review
7.5.3 TAC review
7.5.3.1 TAC review group
7.5.3.2 Review comment classifications
7.5.4 TAC decision
7.5.4.1 Document approved
7.5.4.2 Responding to TAC comments
7.5.4.3 Document not approved
7.6—Appeal processes
7.6.1 Guides and reports under development
7.6.2 Published guides and reports
7.6.3 Technical grounds
7.6.4 Procedural grounds
CHAPTER 8—FORMAT AND LANGUAGE FOR GUIDES AND REPORTS
8.1—Format
8.1.1 Outline
8.1.1.1 Guide and report outline example
8.1.1.2 TechNote outline example
8.1.2 Description of required front matter
8.1.3 Description of chapters
8.1.4 Description of back matter
8.1.5 Numbering and titles
8.2—Language
8.2.1 General principles
8.2.2 Clarity
8.2.3 Gender-specific language
8.2.4 Vague language
8.2.5 Active versus passive voice
8.3—References
PART 4—STYLE
CHAPTER 9—ACI TECHNICAL WRITING STYLE
9.1—Units
9.2—Equations
9.2.1 Equation numbering
9.3—Figures
9.3.1 Figure captions
9.3.2 Figure captions
9.3.3 Figure quality and copyright
9.4—Tables
9.4.1 Table footnotes
9.4.2 Table formatting
9.5—Lists
9.6—Grammar
9.6.1 Gender-specific language
9.6.2 Conditional phrases (use of if, when, and where)
9.6.3 Acceptable and unacceptable terminology
9.6.4 Numbers
9.6.5 Hyphens
9.6.6 Serial comma
9.6.7 Footnotes
9.6.8 Parentheses and brackets
9.6.9 Abbreviations
9.6.10 Capitalization
9.6.11 Per versus “/”
9.6.12 And/or
CHAPTER 10—NOTATION AND DEFINITIONS
10.1—Notation
10.1.1 General
10.1.2 Rules for making notation
10.1.3 Format
10.1.4 Notation use in text
10.2—Definitions
10.2.1 ACI Concrete Terminology
10.2.1.1 Process for submitting terminology
10.2.1.2 Referencing the CT
10.2.3 Format
CHAPTER 11—UNITS OF MEASUREMENT
11.1—Policy
11.2—Inch-pound units
11.3—SI units
11.4—Hard versus soft conversion
11.4.1 Soft metric conversion
11.4.2 Hard metric conversion
11.5—Format for unit names and abbreviations
11.5.1 General
11.5.2 Percentages, decimals, and fractions
11.5.3 Degrees
11.6—Conversion of units
11.6.1 Conversion factors
11.6.2 Significant digits
11.6.3 Rounding
11.6.4 Reinforcing bar designations
11.6.5 Degree of precision
11.6.6 Mass versus weight
11.6.7 Decimal point and implied tolerances
PART 5—SESSIONS AND VIDEO PRODUCTS
CHAPTER 12—CONVENTION SESSIONS AND RELATED PUBLICATIONS
12.1—Committee planning
12.2—TAC approval
12.2.1 Session moderator training
12.3—Sponsorship of technical sessions at non-ACI conventions
12.4—Convention session procedures
12.4.1 Initiating a session
12.4.2 Preliminary TAC approval
12.4.2.1 Deadlines for preliminary TAC approval
12.4.3 Time allotted for presentations
12.4.4 Sessions honoring prominent ACI members
12.4.5 Speakers
12.4.5.1 Calls for papers
12.4.5.2 Selecting speakers
12.4.5.3 Notifying speakers
12.4.6 Final TAC approval
12.4.6.1 Deadlines for final TAC approval
12.4.7 Staff assistance
12.4.8 Presentation materials
12.5—Publication of session papers in an ACI Special Publication
12.5.1 SP from conferences outside ACI conventions
12.5.2 SP honoring an individual
12.5.3 Preliminary TAC approval
12.5.4 Preparation of papers
12.5.5 Review of papers
12.5.6 Final TAC approval
CHAPTER 13—DEVELOPMENT OF VIDEO PRODUCTS
13.1—Initial approval
13.2—Funding request
13.3—Secondary approval
13.4—Final approval
13.5—Revision
PART 6—POLICIES
CHAPTER 14—DOCUMENT-RELATED INSTITUTE POLICIES
14.1—Publication
14.1.1 Stand-alone document
14.1.2 ACI Collection
14.2—Legal and directional statements
14.2.1 Disclaimer on first page of guides and reports
14.2.2 Disclaimer on inside front cover
14.2.3 Statement describing ITG reports
14.2.4 Statement describing Emerging Technology Reports
14.2.5 Translation disclaimer
14.2.6 Metric unit conversion disclaimer
14.2.7 Patent disclaimer
14.2.8 Certification statement
14.3—ACI metrication policy
APPENDIX A—TAC’S INTERNATIONAL OUTREACH
INDEX