Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Italian term or phrase:
progettazione costruttiva
English translation:
structural design
Added to glossary by
Paul O'Brien
Feb 12, 2008 06:38
16 yrs ago
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Italian term
Argentina
Legal and environment specialist, PhD
Native in: English 
Works in: Italian to English, Spanish to English, English
progettazione costruttiva
Italian to English
Other
Construction / Civil Engineering
a team of geologists offers "Assistenza geologica alla progettazione costruttiva" of an underground hydroelectric powerhouse.
Proposed translations
(English)
| 4 +6 | structural design |
Lindsay Watts
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| 5 +1 | construction design |
James (Jim) Davis
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| 3 | Construction design OR construction planning |
Gad Kohenov
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Proposed translations
+6
33 mins
Selected
structural design
here's what I would use
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Comment: "great. and got lots of peer support."
18 mins
Gad Kohenov
Israel
Israel
Works in field
Israel
30 years of experience+satisfied clients
Native in: French 
, Hebrew
Works in: English to Hebrew, Hebrew to English, French to Hebrew, and 8 more.
Related KudoZ points
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243
Construction design OR construction planning
They have such bombastic expressions in Italian!
+1
27 mins
James (Jim) Davis
Seychelles
Seychelles
Native in English
Specializes in field
Seychelles
25 years experience constantly improving
Native in: English (Variant: British)
Works in: Italian to English
Related KudoZ points
:
664
construction design
In tunnelling and underground work this is the design of a tunnel or underground construction during construction itself. When driving a tunnel through well-surveyed solid good qualit rock, as in the case of the Channel Tunnel, this isn't necessary. If however you are driving through poor quality ground, loose soil. clay, water logged ground, either very close to the surface in a city or very deep where the ground can "squeeze" and even crush a TBM, then the final design decisions are taken as the tunnel is driven.
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Note added at 3 hrs (2008-02-12 09:41:07 GMT)
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This interpretation is appropriate if you have a dam where the foundations require a lot of underground work often with tunnelling into hill or mountain slopes and the "design" is fine-tuned during construction.
Otherwise if everything is designed on the drawing board beforehand (as is normally the case with surface construction) with the help of geologists then Lindsay's answer is the right one.
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Note added at 3 hrs (2008-02-12 09:41:07 GMT)
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This interpretation is appropriate if you have a dam where the foundations require a lot of underground work often with tunnelling into hill or mountain slopes and the "design" is fine-tuned during construction.
Otherwise if everything is designed on the drawing board beforehand (as is normally the case with surface construction) with the help of geologists then Lindsay's answer is the right one.
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