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Terminology and Abbreviation

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CNS

Table of Contents

1. ...1

General Terms and Abbreviation

2. ..16

Civil Works

3. ..27

Architecture

4. ..37

Electrical and Mechanical

5. ..52

Operation

6. ..62

Maintenance

7 ....67

Track Works

8.... .74

Financial

1. .79

Appendix 1. General Units and Symbols

2 . ..81

Appendix 2. Societies and Institutes

3. .86

Appendix 3. Standard words in Chinese

1.

General Terms and Abbreviation

FULL NAME OR DEFINITION

CHINESE MEANING

ABBR

Airport Height Restriction

As-built Drawings

Assignment / / (

Baseline Criteria

Baseline Development

Baseline Programme ()

Building Services General Consultants

Certificate of Substantial Completion

Commencement Date

Competitive Tender

Concession Period

Conciliation Procedures

Confidentiality Affidavit

Configuration Control Board

Configuration Management

Consortium / /

Construction Detail Drawing

Construction Restriction

Contract Management

Critical Item /

Critical Land Issue

Cycle Time

Defects Correction Certificate

Designer ()

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FULL NAME OR DEFINITION

CHINESE MEANING

ABBR

Discovery Period / Warranty Period

Driving Simulator

E&M Design Criteria

E-mail (e-mail) () /

Equipment

Executive Summary

Fabrication Drawing

Force Majeure

General Consultants

Grace Period

Handover /

Information Center / Information Desk /

Initial Planning Criteria

Key Equipment(Plants)

Key Milestone

Key date

Key Issue /

Know how

Lead Inspector

Main Guideway Piers

No objection

Noise barrier

Non Collusion Affidavit

Parameter /

Particular Specification

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FULL NAME OR DEFINITION

CHINESE MEANING

ABBR

Patent Rights

Planimetric features /

Planning /

Project Control /

Project Manager

Request For Proposal ()

River Administration Rules

River Crossing Permit

River Land using Permit

Road Diversion

Rolling Program /

Rolling Stock / Trainset /

Selection Committee

Shop Drawing

Short Form Contract

Sign-off /

Special Measures

Station Zone Master plan

Subcontractor

Take Over

Test Line

Third Party /

Ticket Barrier

Tracking mechanisms

Transits

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FULL NAME OR DEFINITION

CHINESE MEANING

ABBR

Trend Report

UP

Water Channel Diversion

Work Specification

Working Drawing

Abbreviation ABBR

Agreement / Contract Agreement /

As Low As Reasonably Practicable ALARP

Alignment Drawing

Advance Loss of Profit ALOP

Advance Loss of Revenue ALOR

Applicable Law

Approved Sub-contractor

Approximate APPROX

Alternative Risk Transfer ART

Automatic Train Control System ATCS

Auxiliary AUX

Between BET

Building BLDG

Budget Management BM

Biologic Oxygen Demand BOD

Build Operate Transfer BOT

Bureau of Taiwan High Speed Rail /

BOTHSR

British Standard BS

Baseline Status Report BSR

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FULL NAME OR DEFINITION

CHINESE MEANING

ABBR

Business Development Land

Construction and Operation greement; C&OA

Computer Aided Drafting and Design CADD

Construction All Risks Insurance CAR

Construction Contract CC

Center to Center C-C

Carbonic Copy / cc.

Contract Change Order CCO

Contract Document Requirement List CDRL

Coordination Engineer CE

Current Forecast CF

Critical Item Action Report CIAR

Contractors Independent Checking Engineer. () CICE

Civil Works ()

Configuration Management Change Control CMCC

Critical Path Method CMcmP

The Concession Company Con Co

Construction Drawing

Construction Specification

Consultancy Agreement

Consultants /

Contingency

Contract Joint

Contract

Contract Sum

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FULL NAME OR DEFINITION

CHINESE MEANING

ABBR

Contract Price

Contractor

Contractors Equipment

Contractors Representative

Contractors Submission

Core Systesm Core

Core System Contract (Contractor) ()

Core programme CP

Consultants Project Manager CPM

Change Request CR

Combined Services Drawing CSD

Chairman , Tender Board CTB

Design and Build D & B

Dispute Adjudication Board DAB

Design Coordinator DC

Detailed Design Consultants DDC

Drop Dead Dates DDD

Defects Correction Period

Department DEPT

Deputy Employer Representative DER

Design Drawings

Design Review

Design Specification

Design Unit

Detail DET

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FULL NAME OR DEFINITION

CHINESE MEANING

ABBR

Dimension DIM

Directive Drawing

Down DN

Deputy Project Director DPD

Development Steering Committee () DSC

Delay in Start Up (Insurance) () DSU

Dummy Change Order

East E

Electrical and Mechanical E&M

Environmental Control System ECS

Existing Ground Level EGL

Environmental Impact Assessment EIA

Emergency EMERG

Employer

Employers Requirements

Employers Specification

Encouragement Statute /

Expression of Interest EOI

Engineering Procurement Construction EPC

Equivalent EQ

Employers Representative ER

Each Way EW

Excepted Risks

Existing EXIST

Expansion EXP

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FULL NAME OR DEFINITION

CHINESE MEANING

ABBR

External Interface

Final Employer Acceptance () FEA

Financial Institutions (consortium) ()

Freeway FWY

General Conditions of Contract GCC

General Arrangement Drawing

Geographic Information System GIS

Ground Level / GL

Guideway

Height H

High Density HD

Horizontal / HOR

Hour HR

Highway HWY

Interface Management

Interface Action Form IAF

Insurance Broker Consortium IBC

Independent Checking Engineer () ICE

Interface Coordination Work Group ICWG

Identification / Inside Diameter / ID

Independent Engineer IE

Interface Engineer IE

Information / INFO

In Place INSITU

Intellectual Property Rights

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FULL NAME OR DEFINITION

CHINESE MEANING

ABBR

Interface

Interface Action List

Interface Action Report

Interface Control

Interface Control Drawing

Internal Interface

Independent Site Engineer () ISE

Instructions To Tenderers ITT

Independent Verification and Validation IV&V

Junior Engineer / Site Engineer / Office ngineer / JE

Joint Venture () JV

Key Person

Key Issue Action Report KIAR

Letter of Credit L / C

Legal Adviser LA

Land Lease Contract

Land Use Contract

Local Condition LC

Life Cycle Cost LCC

Liquidation Damages LDs

Average Noise Levels / Equivalent Continuous Sound Level

Leq

Left Hand LH

Local Road LR

Main Station M / S

Major Temporary Work

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FULL NAME OR DEFINITION

CHINESE MEANING

ABBR

Master Schedule

Middle Capacity Transportation MCT

Method Statement on Construction

Manager Mgr

Milestone

Milestone Certificate

Management Information System MIS

Miscellaneous MISC

Miscellaneous / MISC

Master Interface Table MIT

Mean Kilometer Between Failure MKMkmBF

Match Line / ML

Maintenance Man Hour MMmmH

Montreal Protocol

Memorandum Of Understanding MOU

Monthly Progress Report MPR

Mass Rapid Transit MRT

Materials Technician MT

Mean Time Between Failure MTBF

Metal MTL

Mean Time To Repair MTTR

North N

Not Applicable NA

Not Included / Not In Contract / NIC

National Information Infrastructure NII

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1.General Terms and Definitions

FULL NAME OR