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10:49 Oct 13, 2009 |
Catalan to English translations [PRO] Construction / Civil Engineering / building restoration | |||||||
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| Selected response from: Andy Watkinson Spain Local time: 02:56 | ||||||
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4 | to reconstruct a building |
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1 +1 | conduct a survey |
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conduct a survey Explanation: Not my field - so minimum confidence. I'm really taking this from the equivalent in Spanish "hacer un levantamiento" which is to "conduct a survey" of terrain or, in this case, a building with a view to restoring it. e.g. Alberta Group :: Agreement signed that will make Malta a Centre of ... Alberta can conduct a survey of a building or site - about to undergo reconstruction, modernisation or demolition. We can plan the strategy to make the ... www.albertagroup.eu/albertagroup/news_detail.aspx?id Andy |
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to reconstruct a building Explanation: I think the verb "aixecar" is being used in a literal sense (to lift) here, to refer to the re-building of a building (I didn't put it this way as it sounds awkward!). See example sentence below for more... Hope that helps. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 20 hrs (2009-10-14 07:17:54 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- to incorporate the "de fer" of the source text you could say "to carry out the reconstruction... and to make it even more explicit you could use the verb erect instead of reconstruct to make it clear that this refers to the re-building. Example sentence(s):
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