Dive summary:

• A program that certifies managers as having the skills necessary to handle commercial construction projects has been endorsed by the Construction Industry Institute (CII) at the University of Texas.
• The CII comprises building owners, contractors and materials suppliers, and two of the group's committees—Professional Development and Executive Committees—issued a statement that said member companies ought to "seriously consider the benefits that the CCM credential can bring to the execution of their individual capital projects."
• The Construction Manager Certification Institute, which awards the credential, had been working with CII for two years to incorporate what CII had seemed to be best practices into the curriculum and its exam.

From the press release:

The CM certification program is accredited by the American National Standards Institute based on the International Organization for Standardization's ISO 17024 standard. ...