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Structural engineering translation, in your terms.

Concrete, steel, masonry and wood, with every callout on the detail matching its section in the specification.

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Where structural packages drift

Structural sheets carry the densest callouts in the set: bar marks, anchor bolts, slab edges, bearing plates, weld symbols with notes. When the French callout and the specification name the same item differently, the contractor issues an RFI and the fabricator waits. A wrong term on a detail does not stay a translation problem: it becomes a question on site, sometimes a non-conformance.

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One term base, every document

Bar marks, connections and concrete terms come from Technitrad’s NMS term base, with your firm’s approved terms first. The general notes, every detail and the concrete and steel sections are translated from the same list. 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

General notes and structural drawings, shop drawings and erection drawings, concrete, steel, masonry and wood specifications, structural reports and condition assessments, and calculation summaries for review.

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NMS sections it touches

  • Cast-in-place concrete
  • Concrete reinforcing
  • Structural steel for buildings
  • Steel decking
  • Concrete unit masonry
  • Masonry anchorage and reinforcing

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.

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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).

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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

The fabricator reads the same anchor bolt on the detail, the shop drawing and the specification, and builds without an RFI about 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 structural 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. 01anchor boltboulon d'ancrage
  2. 02slab edgerive de la dalle
  3. 03rebarbarre d'armature
  4. 04footingsemelle
  5. 05cast-in-place concretebéton coulé en place
  6. 06precast concretebéton préfabriqué
  7. 07formworkcoffrage
  8. 08groutcoulis
  9. 09shear studgoujon de cisaillement
  10. 10base plateplaque d'appui
  11. 11steel deckingplatelage en acier
  12. 12steel joistpoutrelle en acier
  13. 13steel lintellinteau en acier
  14. 14expansion jointjoint de dilatation
FAQ

Questions

What is a slab edge in French?

In Technitrad's NMS term base, slab edge is rive de la dalle. Other renderings are understood on site; the point is that the drawing and the specification use the same one.

Do you translate shop drawings?

Yes. Shop drawings and erection drawings are translated in the AutoCAD DWG the fabricator issues (PDF-only sets are quoted separately), in the terms of the structural specification.

Is génie structural correct French?

Quebec usage prefers génie des structures; génie structural is understood but less common. We follow the term your firm has approved.

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