Technical translation services for construction documents, in your terminology.
Specs, drawings and reports translated between English and French with one term base, so every document you issue agrees with the others.
One terminology, every document
Your specification says one thing, the drawing callout says another, and the report uses a third. Someone on your team catches it, corrects it, and is tired of correcting it again on the next job. The fix is not a better translator for each document. It is one approved term base behind all of them, so a callout on sheet A-101 matches section 08 44 13 word for word. Miss one, and a mismatched term reaches the site as a re-issued sheet. A term your engineers approved once should never need correcting again.
What we translate
- AutoCAD drawings. Send the DWG files; get them back with the translation written in place, and every callout in the same terms as the spec.
- NMS specifications. Section by section, numbering and structure kept, in the same terms as your drawings.
- Reports and engineering documents. Studies, reports and manuals in the terms your specs and drawings already use.
- Your term base. Built from your past translations, applied to every future document, and yours to keep.
- Tenders and bids. Bid documents for SEAO, Hydro-Québec and federal tenders, translated before the closing date.
- Two ways to work. An AI draft your team reviews in NEOLO, which costs less for routine documents, or review by our specialists when the stakes are high, chosen project by project. If your engineers translate in-house today, the AI draft gives them a first version in your terms.
Construction first, then every other technical document
We are known for construction documents, and we translate every other technical document your projects and your firm produce in the same terminology: contracts, submittals and RFIs, O&M manuals, safety data sheets, environmental studies, software and e-learning, and certified translation. Between English and French only; other languages on request.
How a project runs
- Send the package and any past translations. We answer with a quote within one business day.
- We build or apply your term base, and you choose an AI draft your team reviews or our specialists.
- You receive your documents in your format and your terms, ready to issue, and your engineers review them in minutes.
Why firms choose Technitrad
Six of the world’s ten largest engineering firms are Technitrad clients. ISO 17100, ISO 18587 and CAN/CGSB-131.10 certified.
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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Send your package for a quote, or start with a free, confidential terminology check of a recent deliverable or drawing.
Every service
- S-01NMS Specification TranslationStandard clauses come back in the official NMS French; your edits come back in the same terms as your drawings. From the team engineering firms are referred to for NMS work.
- S-02Drawing Translation, AutoCAD DWGSend the DWG files; get them back with the translation written in place and every callout in the same terms as the spec.
- S-03Technical Document Translation ServicesThe same approved terms as your specs and drawings, in every report, study and manual.
- S-04Construction Terminology, Your Term BaseWe build your bilingual term base from your past translations. Every term your engineers approve is applied to every future document, and the term base is yours.
- S-05Tender Translation for Bid DocumentsSpecifications in the official NMS French, AutoCAD drawings translated in the DWG, addenda in the same terms: your tender package in English or French, on the bid schedule.
- S-06AI Draft or Specialist ReviewBoth use your term base and both return your AutoCAD drawings as DWG with the translation in place. The difference is who reviews the translation before it goes out.
Your engineers review the translation in minutes, not hours.
Send your package: specs, drawings or reports. We reply with a price and a date.
FreeFree terminology checkUpload a recent translated deliverable. We return a short report of every inconsistent term.