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Send your past translationsGeotechnical translation, in your terms.
Reports, borehole logs and foundation specifications where every soil, rock and test keeps one name from the field to the specification.
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Where geotechnical reports drift
A geotechnical report is a chain of evidence: the borehole logs, the laboratory results, then the recommendations the structural and civil designers build on. When the same borehole or soil unit carries two names in the French, reviewers start questioning the data instead of the design, and your geotechnical engineer answers questions about translation rather than about the ground.
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One term base, every document
Soil, rock and test terms come from Technitrad’s NMS term base, with your firm’s approved terms first, and they are settled before the borehole logs are translated, so the logs, the results and the recommendations share one vocabulary. 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
Geotechnical investigation reports, borehole and test pit logs, laboratory results, foundation and earthwork specifications, pile driving records, and environmental site assessments that share the same boreholes.
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NMS sections it touches
- Excavating, trenching and backfilling
- Basement excavation
- Precast concrete piles
- Steel H piles
- Sheet steel piles
- Rock sockets for piles
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).
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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’ve completed our review of the translated documents and are pleased to say we have no comments, everything looks good on our end.
Brittany, Defence Construction Canada
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Reviewers read the logs and the recommendations as one argument and question the ground, not the words. 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 report for a quote, answered within one business day (scans are quoted separately), 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.
- 01boreholetrou de forage
- 02test pitpuits d'exploration
- 03bedrocksubstrat rocheux
- 04rock corecarotte de roche
- 05groundwatereau souterraine
- 06cohesive soilsol cohérent
- 07compactioncompactage
- 08granular backfillremblai granulaire
- 09dewateringassèchement des excavations
- 10shoringétaiement
- 11underpinningreprise en sous-œuvre
- 12driven pilepieu battu
- 13sheet steel pilespalplanches d'acier
- 14riprapenrochement
FAQ
Questions
What does a geotechnical report tell you?
What is under the site and what it means for design: the soil and rock layers found in the boreholes, groundwater levels, laboratory results, and recommendations for foundations, excavation, backfill and drainage.
Who is responsible for the geotech report?
The geotechnical engineer who signs it, usually retained by the owner or the design team. When it is translated, the translation has to carry the same meaning the engineer signed, which is why the terms are settled first.
Can you translate old scanned borehole logs?
Yes. Older investigations often exist only as scans; in the Iqaluit and Pond Inlet project some dated from the 1970s and were barely legible. Scans are quoted separately.
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