THE ORGANIZATION  AACE International (“AACE”) is the Association for the Advancement of Cost Engineering. Established in 1956, AACE is a 501(c)3 with 9,000 members in over 100 countries and is renowned for its technical content. Cost Engineering is a field of study and its practitioners, AACE members, are a community of professionals from various practice areas including project controls, cost & commercial management, change management, planning & scheduling, estimating, decision & risk management, asset management, and dispute resolution. Members include owners, contractors, and consultants from many industries, such as construction, manufacturing, engineering, infrastructure, natural resources, power generat