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Mechanical engineering translation, in your terms.

HVAC, plumbing and fire protection, with every schedule, tag and specification section naming the equipment the same way.

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Where mechanical packages drift

Mechanical divisions are the longest in the specification, and equipment schedules are the densest tables on the drawings. A fire damper is a registre coupe-feu in the NMS; call it something else in the schedule and the inspector, the commissioning agent and the maintenance team each read a different item. Your mechanical engineers then spend the issue week cross-checking tags instead of designing.

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One term base, every document

Equipment names come from Technitrad’s NMS term base, with your firm’s approved terms first, and the same list feeds the schedules, the tags, the specification sections and the operation and maintenance manuals. 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

HVAC, plumbing and fire protection drawings and schedules, mechanical specifications, controls sequences, commissioning and testing, adjusting and balancing reports, and operation and maintenance manuals.

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NMS sections it touches

  • Common work results for HVAC
  • HVAC fans
  • Heating boilers
  • Plumbing fixtures
  • Wet pipe sprinkler systems
  • Testing, adjusting and balancing for HVAC

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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Send your past translations

and approved terms. We build your term base from them.

Send your past translations
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Choose per project

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 work
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Receive 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.

Receive the package in your formats, ready to issue.
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Proof

Six of the world’s ten largest engineering firms are Technitrad clients. See how we translate NMS specifications and AutoCAD drawings.

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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Start

At commissioning, the agent, the inspector and the maintenance team read the same fire damper on the schedule, the tag and the manual. 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 mechanical set 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.

  1. 01HVACCVCA
  2. 02air handling unitappareil de traitement d'air
  3. 03heat pumppompe à chaleur
  4. 04heating boilerchaudière de chauffage
  5. 05fire damperregistre coupe-feu
  6. 06smoke damperregistre de fumée
  7. 07supply ductconduit de soufflage d'air
  8. 08exhaust fanventilateur d'extraction
  9. 09backflow preventerdispositif anti-retour
  10. 10floor drainavaloir de sol
  11. 11check valveclapet de retenue
  12. 12expansion tankvase d'expansion
  13. 13plumbing fixtureappareil sanitaire
  14. 14wet pipe sprinkler systemsystème d'extincteurs automatiques sous eau
FAQ

Questions

What is HVAC in French?

CVCA, for chauffage, ventilation et conditionnement d'air, is the term the NMS French uses. CVC is also common in Quebec.

Do you translate equipment schedules on the drawings?

Yes. Schedules are translated in the DWG with the drawing, in the same terms as the specification, so the tag, the schedule and the section agree.

Do you translate operation and maintenance manuals?

Yes, including the manufacturer data your team assembles, so the operations staff read the same equipment names as the drawings.

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