ingénieur en stabilité

English translation: structural engineer

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French term or phrase:ingénieur en stabilité
English translation:structural engineer

11:08 Jun 18, 2020
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Tech/Engineering - Construction / Civil Engineering / specific to Belgium
French term or phrase: ingénieur en stabilité
This term appears in a document about project methodology, included in a tender response package. It gives an overview of the roles of the members of a project team on a building renovation project in Belgium. It refers to Ingénieur en Stabilité (as opposed to Ingénieur en Techniques Spéciales). It lists, for example:
- coordination entre les architectes et les ingénieurs en stabilité et en techniques spéciales
- réunions avec les architectes et les ingénieurs en stabilité pour échanger sur...

Is it as simple as "Stability Engineer" or would it be incorrect to translate this directly?
J Sopp
structural engineer
Explanation:
https://www.livescience.com/47816-structural-engineering.htm...
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Juan Arturo Blackmore Zerón
Mexico
Local time: 08:27
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Thank you all. Some great references and explanations given here. Much appreciated.
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3 +6structural engineer
Juan Arturo Blackmore Zerón
Summary of reference entries provided
see job descriptioin
liz askew
Some references from Wikipedia
Johannes Gleim

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structural engineer


Explanation:
https://www.livescience.com/47816-structural-engineering.htm...

Juan Arturo Blackmore Zerón
Mexico
Local time: 08:27
Native speaker of: Spanish
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
Thank you all. Some great references and explanations given here. Much appreciated.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  liz askew
44 mins

agree  Johannes Gleim: See refence comments
1 hr

agree  Luigi Benetton: The context implies this - structural engineers and architects frequently work together to make designs realistic.
4 hrs

agree  Libby Cohen: Stability is one of the concerns of structural engineering.
4 hrs

agree  jsopp: Thank you all. I hope this answer is acknowledged, as I have no option to select or grade it. Together with the supporting references added, it was clear that this was the correct term here.
1 day 20 mins

agree  Cyril Tollari: Belgian French
4 days
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Reference: see job descriptioin

Reference information:
https://www.jevaisconstruire.be/lingenieur-en-stabilite-un-s...

liz askew
United Kingdom
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 114

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agree  jsopp: thank you
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Reference: Some references from Wikipedia

Reference information:
En France et en Suisse notamment, le génie civil est une expression désignant les domaines de la construction en général :
• les aspects liés à la stabilité des constructions : l'ouvrage sur le sol où il est implanté doit résister durant sa construction et tout au long de sa vie aux diverses sollicitations (le poids propre de l'ouvrage, les charges d'exploitations, les charges climatiques, les séismes, etc.);
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Génie_civil

Civil engineering is a professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including public works such as roads, bridges, canals, dams, airports, sewerage systems, pipelines, structural components of buildings, and railways.[
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_engineering#Construction...

L'ingénierie des structures1 est un domaine de l'ingénierie et plus particulièrement du génie civil, traitant de la stabilité des constructions (conception et de l'analyse des structures).
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingénierie_des_structures

Structural engineering is a sub-discipline of civil engineering in which structural engineers are trained to design the 'bones and muscles' that create the form and shape of man made structures. Structural engineers need to understand and calculate the stability, strength and rigidity of built structures for buildings[1] and nonbuilding structures.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structural_engineering

Structural engineers analyse, design, plan, and research structural components and structural systems to achieve design goals and ensure the safety and comfort of users or occupants. Their work takes account mainly of safety, technical, economic and environmental concerns, but they may also consider aesthetic and social factors.
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Structural engineers ensure that buildings and bridges are built to be strong enough and stable enough to resist all appropriate structural loads (e.g., gravity, wind, snow, rain, seismic (earthquake), earth pressure, temperature, and traffic) in order to prevent or reduce loss of life or injury.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structural_engineer

Johannes Gleim
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Native speaker of: German
PRO pts in category: 189

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agree  jsopp: thank you
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