The Construction Industry Institute (CII), based at The University of Texas at Austin, is a non-profit consortium

Consortium

A consortium is an association of two or more individuals, companies, organizations or governments with the objective of participating in a common activity or pooling their resources for achieving a common goal....

 of more than 100 leading owner, engineering-contractor, and supplier firms from both the public and private arenas. These organizations have joined together to enhance the business effectiveness and sustainability of the capital facility life cycle through CII research, related initiatives, and industry alliances.

CII Best Practices

A "Best Practice" is a process or method that, when executed effectively, leads to enhanced project performance. CII Best Practices have been proven through extensive industry use and/or validation. CII Best Practices include the following 15 topics:

• Alignment
  Alignment
  Alignment may refer to:* Alignment , secondary evidence used to associate features such as postholes* Alignment , in Israel from 1965 to 1992...
  
  
• Benchmarking & Metrics
  Benchmarking
  Benchmarking is the process of comparing one's business processes and performance metrics to industry bests and/or best practices from other industries. Dimensions typically measured are quality, time and cost...
  
  
• Change Management
  Change management
  Change management is a structured approach to shifting/transitioning individuals, teams, and organizations from a current state to a desired future state. It is an organizational process aimed at helping employees to accept and embrace changes in their current business environment....
  
  
• Constructability
  Constructability
  Constructability is a project management technique to review construction processes from start to finish during pre-construction phase. It is to identify obstacles before a project is actually built to reduce or prevent errors, delays, and cost overruns.The term "constructability" defines the ease...
  
  
• Disputes Prevention & Resolution
• Front End Planning
• Implementation of CII Research
• Lessons Learned
• Materials Management
  Materials management
  Materials management can deal with campus planning and building design for the movement of materials, or with logistics that deal with the tangible components of a supply chain...
  
  
• Partnering
  Business partnering
  Business partnering is "the development of successful, long term, strategic relationships between customers and suppliers, based on achieving best practice and sustainable competitive advantage".- Mission :...
  
  
• Planning for Startup
• Project Risk Assessment
  Risk assessment
  Risk assessment is a step in a risk management procedure. Risk assessment is the determination of quantitative or qualitative value of risk related to a concrete situation and a recognized threat...
  
  
• Quality Management
  Quality management
  The term Quality management has a specific meaning within many business sectors. This specific definition, which does not aim to assure 'good quality' by the more general definition , can be considered to have four main components: quality planning, quality control, quality assurance and quality...
  
  
• Team Building
  Team building
  Team building refers to a wide range of activities, presented to businesses, schools, sports teams, religious or nonprofit organizations designed for improving team performance...
  
  
• Zero Accidents Techniques

CII has also researched other Practices and Information Topics, which have been organized into a Knowledge Structure and a Project Life Cycle Matrix. CII's Professional Development Continuum helps organizations to plan the development of new construction project managers by applying CII Best Practices and other competencies to the managers' professional development.