Guides @ UF: Standards: Standards Organizations

Standards websites

Selected popular (in the U.S.) organizations that develop, co-develop, use, or promote industry standards. See more lists by ANSI.

AASHTO
Represents highway and transportation departments in the U.S. Covers five transportation modes: air, highways, public transportation, rail, and water. Fosters the development, operation, and maintenance of an integrated national transportation system.
ACI
American Concrete Institute
AGA
American Gas Association represents local energy companies that deliver natural gas throughout the U. S.
AIAA
The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) is the world's largest technical society devoted to the global aerospace community.
AIIM
Known as the Association for Information and Image Management, helps organizations find, control and optimize their information.
ANSI online
American National Standards Institute. Coordinates development and use of voluntary consensus standards in the U.S.
API
Represents all aspects of America’s oil and natural gas industry: producers, refiners, suppliers, pipeline operators and marine transporters. API has led the development of petroleum and petrochemical equipment and operating standards.
ASCE
American Society of Civil Engineers
ASHRAE
American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers advances the arts and sciences of heating, ventilating, air conditioning and refrigerating to serve humanity and promote a sustainable world.
ASM International
The Materials Information Society
ASME
Founded in 1880 as the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Promotes mechanical and multidisciplinary engineering and allied sciences
ASNT
American Society for Nondestructive Testing
ASQ
American Society for Quality advances learning, quality improvement, and knowledge exchange to improve business results, and to create better workplaces and communities worldwide.
ASSE
American Society of Safety Engineers. Its members manage, supervise and consult on safety, health, and environmental issues in industry, insurance, government and education.
ASTM International
Technical standards for materials, products, systems, and services. Full ASTM Standards are online. Use VPN or UF wireless on your device.
AWWA
American Water Works Association - the authoritative resource on safe water.
IEEE
Originally the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, interests range from aerospace systems, computers and telecommunications to biomedical engineering, electric power and consumer electronics among others. Standards online in IEL.
ISA
The Instrumentation, Systems, and Automation Society - to advance and apply the science, technology, and allied arts of instrumentation, systems, and automation in all industries and applications.
ISO Store
ITU
The International Telecommunications Union is the leading United Nations agency for information and communication technologies.
NFPA (Fire)
Originally the National Fire Protection Association. Aims to reduce the burden of fire and other hazards on the quality of life. Its codes and standards influence every building, process, service, design, and installation in the U.S. and other countries.
NFPA (Fluid)
National Fluid Power Association advances fluid power technology.
NISO
NISO, (National Information Standards Organization) identifies, develops, maintains, and publishes technical standards to manage information, including retrieval, re-purposing, storage, metadata, and preservation.
NSF International
NSF International, The Public Health and Safety Company™, a not-for-profit, non-governmental organization, is the world leader in standards development, product certification, education, and risk-management for public health and safety.
PIP
Process Industry Practices (PIP) is a consortium of process industry owners and related engineering construction contractors. PIP publishes Practices, which reflect a harmonization of company engineering standards in many engineering disciplines.
SAE International
Originally the Society of Automobile Engineers, SAE International creates and manages aerospace and ground vehicle standards. Involved in designing, building, maintaining, and operating self-propelled vehicles for use on land or sea, in air or space.
SME
The Society of Manufacturing Engineers
TAPPI
TAPPI, founded as the Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry, is the leading association for the worldwide pulp, paper, packaging, and converting industries
TIA
The Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) is the leading trade association representing the global information and communications technology.
UL
Underwriters Laboratories Inc. (UL) is an independent product safety certification organization. UL promotes safe living and working environments for people by the application of safety science and hazard-based safety engineering.

International Bodies

These groups coordinate or harmonize standards developed in several countries. Some are associations for professionals concerns with standards development and use.

International Code Council
The International Code Council, a membership association dedicated to building safety and fire prevention, develops the codes used to construct residential and commercial buildings, including homes and schools.
ISO
ISO (International Organization for Standardization) is the world's largest developer and publisher of International Standards. ISO is a network of the national standards institutes of 157 countries, and a non-governmental consensus-based organization.
IFAN (International Federation of Standards Users )
An independent, non profit-making international association of national organizations for the application of standards, companies, professional and trade associations, and governmental agencies, concerned with the use of standards.
International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC)
International Telecommunication Union (ITU)

National Bodies

See more complete listings at Standards Engineering Society or WSSN.

ANSI (U.S.)
American National Standards Institute
BSI (UK)
find, identify and purchase the British Standard or BSI standard publications.
DIN (Germany)
Deutsches Institut für Normung e. V. - for German standards
JISC (Japan)
Japanese Industrial Standards Committee
SCC (Canada)
Standards Council of Canada

Key U.S. sites

ASSIST - Dept. of Defense
Provides access to current information associated with military and federal specifications and standards in the management of the Defense Standardization Program (DSP).
ANSI
The voice of the U.S. standards and conformity assessment system. Oversees the creation, promulgation and use of thousands of norms and guidelines as well as accrediting programs that assess conformance to standards.
NSSN
A National Resource for Global Standards is a search engine for standards from organizations accredited by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), other U.S. private sector standards bodies, government agencies and international organizations.