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Impact studies, site assessments and environmental specifications, in the terms regulators and contractors will read in both languages.
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Where environmental documents drift
An impact study, the site assessment behind it and the environmental sections of the specification are usually written by different teams, then read by regulators, communities and contractors in both official languages. When contaminated soil, a watercourse or an erosion barrier carries different names across them, a reviewer asks which commitment applies, and the schedule waits on the answer. For the team that signs the commitments, that is the worst kind of uncertainty: a promise made in one language and read differently in the other.
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One term base, every document
Environmental terms come from Technitrad’s NMS term base, with your firm’s and the regulator’s approved terms first. The study, the site assessment and the specification are translated from that one list, so every commitment reads the same in both languages. Technitrad’s NMS term base holds over 15,000 terms; the term base built from your documents is yours, whether you stay with us or not. A term your engineers approved once should never need correcting again.
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What we translate
Environmental impact studies and assessments, Phase I and Phase II environmental site assessments, erosion and sediment control plans, abatement and contaminated-site specifications, monitoring reports, and public consultation material.
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NMS sections it touches
- Special project procedures for contaminated sites
- Asbestos abatement - minimum precautions
- Topsoil placement and grading
- Hydraulic seeding
- Environmental design requirements
- Dredging
Standard NMS text in these sections is matched against our NMS translation memory, aligned from the official English and French NMS, which lowers the cost and shortens the turnaround. Your edits are translated in the same terms. See every division and section title in both languages.
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How it works
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an AI draft your team reviews in NEOLO for routine documents, or review by our specialists when the stakes are high (two ways to work).
Choose per project:two ways to workReceive the package in your formats, ready to issue
On either route, AutoCAD DWG drawings come back with the translation written in place, so no one retypes a callout.
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Proof
For Worley’s Iqaluit and Pond Inlet harbour studies, we translated 420 pages of marine, geotechnical and environmental studies and 45 AutoCAD drawings into French in 14 days, some of them barely legible 1970s scans, and the studies went out with the Government of Nunavut’s tender on schedule. Read the case study.
We were extremely satisfied with the service received from Technitrad delivering the East Breakwater, Skinner’s Cove translation.
Justin, Fisheries and Oceans Canada
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Start
The regulator, the community and the contractor read the same mitigation measure in both languages, and the review moves on to substance. Your engineers stop correcting the same terms twice, and stop being the firm’s French proofreaders. If your own engineers translate the drawings today because an agency would send back tables to retype, start with the AI draft: your team reviews it in NEOLO, and the DWG comes back with the translation written in place. Send the study for a quote, answered within one business day, or start with a free, confidential terminology check of a recent deliverable or drawing.
Terms on this page, English and French
Approved once. Used on every sheet, spec and report after.
- 01topsoilterre végétale
- 02erosion control planplan de contrôle de l'érosion
- 03erosion barriersbarrières de protection contre l'érosion
- 04hydraulic seedingensemencement hydraulique
- 05revegetationrevégétalisation
- 06contaminated sitesite contaminé
- 07contaminated soilsol contaminé
- 08hazardous wastedéchet dangereux
- 09asbestos abatementdésamiantage
- 10monitoring wellpuits de surveillance
- 11natural watercoursecours d'eau naturel
- 12spill kittrousse de lutte contre les déversements
- 13mould remediationtraitement de la contamination fongique
- 14Fisheries ActLoi sur les pêches
FAQ
Questions
What does the Impact Assessment Agency of Canada do?
It leads federal impact assessments of designated projects under the Impact Assessment Act, and publishes its documents in both official languages, which is why proponents often need their studies in English and French.
What are the key components of an environmental impact assessment?
A description of the project and its setting, the baseline conditions, the effects on each component of the environment, mitigation measures, residual effects, and a follow-up and monitoring program.
How many stages are in an EIA?
Most processes run through screening, scoping, impact analysis and mitigation, review and decision, then follow-up. The exact stages depend on the jurisdiction and the act that applies.
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