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and approved terms. We build your term base from them.
Send your past translationsTransportation translation, in your terms.
Roads, bridges, rail and marine works, with every drawing, specification and study using the terms the owner approved.
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Where transportation packages drift
Transportation owners publish in both languages and keep their own standard vocabulary: a guide rail is a glissière, pavement markings are marquages de chaussée, and a fender on a wharf is a défense d’accostage. A translator who does not know the owner’s terms produces French that reads well and still fails the owner’s review, a few days before the tender closes. Your team then rewrites French it already paid for, under the owner’s deadline.
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One term base, every document
Road, bridge, rail and marine terms come from Technitrad’s NMS term base, with the owner’s standard terms first, so the drawings, the specification and the studies share the owner’s 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
Road, bridge, rail and marine drawings, owner and NMS specifications, traffic management plans, marine, geotechnical and environmental studies, and tender documents and addenda.
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NMS sections it touches
- Pavement markings
- Traffic signage
- Vehicle W-beam guide rail
- Structural steel for bridges
- Railway siding
- Rubber marine fenders
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
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 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 owner’s reviewer finds glissière where the standard says glissière, and the tender closes on the date it was set. 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 package 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.
- 01pavement markingmarquage de chaussée
- 02traffic signagesignalisation routière
- 03traffic controlrégulation de la circulation
- 04roadway lightingéclairage routier
- 05W-beam guide railglissière en profilés en W
- 06bridge decktablier de pont
- 07structural steel for bridgesacier de construction pour ponts
- 08railway sidingembranchement ferroviaire
- 09roadbedplate-forme routière
- 10access roadvoie d'accès
- 11dredgingdragage
- 12rubber marine fenderdéfense d'accostage en caoutchouc
- 13finger dockappontement
- 14road bollardborne de protection
FAQ
Questions
What is a guide rail in French?
In the NMS French, a vehicle guide rail is a glissière de sécurité, as in glissières en profilés en W for W-beam guide rail. A guardrail on a building is a garde-corps, a different item.
Do you translate marine and harbour projects?
Yes. For the Iqaluit and Pond Inlet harbours, we translated 420 pages of marine, geotechnical and environmental studies and 45 drawings for a public tender in 14 days.
Do you work with the owner's own terminology?
Yes. When a ministry or a port authority has its own standard terms, they go into the term base before translation starts, ahead of the NMS terms.
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