text: Engineer Planning
  FUNDING
  Adequate funding must be available to undertake the early engineer reconnaissance and acquisition of
  facilities to meet requirements, whether by construction or leasing. (See JP 3-34 for construction funding
  information.) Funding constraints are a planning consideration. The commander articulates funding
  requirements for the construction and leasing of facilities by considering the missions supported and the
  amount of funds required. Funding requirements include facility construction, associated contract
  administration services, and real estate acquisition and disposal services. Facility construction planning must
  be accomplished routinely and repetitively to ensure that mission-essential facilities are identified before they
  are needed and, when possible, that on-the-shelf designs are completed to expedite facility construction.
  CONSTRUCTION STANDARDS
  The CCDR, in coordination with Service components and the Services, specifies the construction
  standards for facilities in-theater to optimize the engineer effort expended on any given facility while assuring
  that the facilities are adequate for health, safety, and mission accomplishment. The bed-down and basing
  continuum highlights the need for early master planning efforts to help facilitate the transition to more
  permanent facilities as an operation develops. While the timelines provide a standard framework, the situation
  may warrant deviations from them. In addition to using these guidelines when establishing initial construction
  standards, the Joint Facilities Utilization Board should be used to periodically revalidate construction
  standards based on current operational issues and to provide recommendations to the commander on potential
  changes. Ultimately, the CCDR determines the exact construction type based on the location, materials
  available, and other factors. Construction standards are guidelines, and the engineer must consider other
  planning factors. See ATP 3-34.40 and JP 3-34 for additional discussions of construction standards.
  UNIFIED FACILITIES CRITERIA
  Unified facilities criteria provide facility planning, design, construction, operations, and maintenance
  criteria for DOD components. Individual unified facilities criteria are developed by a single-disciplined
  working group and published after careful coordination. They are jointly developed and managed by USACE,
  the NAVFAC, and the Air Force Civil Engineer Center. Although unified facilities criteria are written with
  long-term standards in mind, planners who are executing under contingency and enduring standards for
  general engineering tasks may find them compulsory. Topics include pavement design, water supply systems,
  military airfields, concrete design and repair, plumbing, and electrical systems.
  Unified facilities criteria are living documents and will be periodically reviewed, updated, and made
  available to users as part of the Services’ responsibility for providing technical criteria for military
  construction. Unified facilities criteria are effective upon issuance and are distributed only in electronic media
  from the following sources:
  * Unified Facilities Criteria Index.
  * Unified Facilities Criteria Library.
  * Naval Facilities Engineering Criteria and Programs Office.
  * Construction Criteria Base Index.
  General engineer planners must consider the construction standards established by CCDRs and ASCCs
  for the AOR. These constantly evolving guidebooks specifically establish base camp standards that consider
  regional requirements for troop living conditions and, therefore, have a major impact on projects (base camps,
  utilities). Because the availability of construction materials may vary greatly in various AORs, standards of
  construction may differ greatly between them. CCDRs also often establish standards for construction in
  OPORDs and fragmentary orders that may take precedence over guidebooks. Planners must understand the
  expected life cycle of a general engineering project to apply these standards. Often the standards will be
  markedly different, depending on whether the construction is nonpermanent or is intended to be permanent.
  PROJECT MANAGEMENT
  Planners use the project management process described in TM 3-34.42 as a tool for coordinating the
  skill and labor of personnel using equipment and materials to form the desired structure. The project