Bilingual site documents that match the project's specs.
Submittals, shop drawings, safety documents and bids, translated in the terms of the owner's specification. AutoCAD DWG shop drawings come back with the French written in place.
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When your documents and the spec disagree
The owner issues the specification in one language; your crews, suppliers and subcontractors often work in the other. A submittal that names a product differently from the specification goes back for review, and the site waits. You end up paying for the delay, and it is maddening to argue about words on a document that was technically right. A product named correctly once should not go back for review because of a word.
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The owner’s terms, first
We start from the terms in the owner’s specification, and from the official NMS French where the specification is built on the NMS. Your submittals, shop drawings and RFIs come back in the vocabulary the reviewer expects to read.
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What we translate for contractors
- Bids, for tenders published in the other language. See tenders and bids.
- Submittals, shop drawings and RFIs, in the terms of the specification. AutoCAD DWG shop drawings come back with the French written in place: the actual AutoCAD files, in the same terms as the spec.
- Health and safety documents, safety plans, procedures and safety data sheets for bilingual crews.
- Operation and maintenance manuals and the closeout documents the owner requires.
- Your choice on each document: an AI draft your team reviews in NEOLO, the lower-cost route for routine site documents, or review by our specialists for what goes to the owner. Two ways to work.
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How it works
We translate it in the owner’s terms,
with your own approved terms where you have them.
We translate it in the owner’s terms,You submit it once,
and the review is about the work, not the words.
You submit it once,Every term your team approves is applied to every document after it, and the term base is yours.
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Proof
Six of the world’s ten largest engineering firms are Technitrad clients. Technitrad is certified to ISO 17100, ISO 18587 and CAN/CGSB-131.10, has experience across every NMS section, and holds an NMS term base of over 15,000 terms.
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If your own staff translate submittals between site visits today, send us one and compare. Request a quote for your next submittal package, answered within one business day, or start with a free, confidential terminology check of a recent deliverable or drawing.
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FreeFree terminology checkUpload a recent translated deliverable. We return a short report of every inconsistent term.