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English translation: temporary formwork

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French term or phrase:	coffrage de travail
English translation:	temporary formwork
Entered by:	kashew

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13:35 Jan 18, 2012

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French term or phrase: Coffrage de travail

Context:

"Système d’appui pour le soutien des composants dans le coffrage debout.
Les boîtiers d’appareils montés avec des chevilles ou des clous sur le coffrage de travail ne nécessitent pas de sécurité supplémentaire, sauf si l’on attend une charge extrême. Si aucune boîte ou aucun coffret n’est prévu sur le coffrage de travail (p. ex. sur un mur extérieur), mais bien sur la face contre-coffrage, des contre-paliers doivent être montés sur le coffrage de travail, l’écartement nécessaire étant obtenu avec des éléments ou tubes d’appui."

Not sure what coffrage de travail means

Alexxx

temporary formwork

Explanation:
http://www.homeimprovementpages.com.au/article/Concrete_Form...

Selected response from:

kashew
France
Local time: 02:30

Grading comment

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Summary of answers provided

4 +2

temporary formwork

kashew

formwork

Miranda Joubioux

shuttering work

narasimha CSN MURTHY

formwork/shuttering

chris collister

Answers

14 mins confidence:

formwork/shuttering

Explanation:
I'm not a civil engineer, but my understanding of "coffrage" is the wooden shuttering used to hold concrete in place before it sets. See eg. http://www.pavingexpert.com/formwk01.htm and http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffrage

chris collister
France
Local time: 02:30
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 58

17 mins confidence:

shuttering work

Explanation:
shuttering work built to facilitate construction

narasimha CSN MURTHY
India
Local time: 06:00
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 91

1 hr confidence:

peer agreement (net): +2

temporary formwork

Explanation:
http://www.homeimprovementpages.com.au/article/Concrete_Form...

kashew
France
Local time: 02:30
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 336

Grading comment

Thanks

11 mins confidence:

formwork

Explanation:
For me, it just means formwork.
At a pinch you could probably say 'construction formwork' if it bothers you.

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Note added at 19 hrs (2012-01-19 08:41:18 GMT)
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If you have questions on other terms in this sentence, I suggest you post each of them separately, to let others benefit from them.

Miranda Joubioux
Local time: 02:30
Specializes in field
Native speaker of:

English
PRO pts in category: 209

Notes to answerer

Asker: Thanks for your help Miranda, I was just not sure whether "de travail"/"debut" etc meant anything more specific - what do you think the "face contre-coffrage" is?

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Jan 20 - Changes made by kashew:
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