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Tech/Engineering - Geology / geotechnical | | French term or phrase: avoisinants | I'm trying to find a noun for "avoisinants" as I have only been able to find it as an adjective.
I am translating a document titled "Classification des missions types d'ingénierie géotechnique"
In the section titled "ETUDE GEOTECHNIQUE D'AVANT PROJET"
It says:
"Elle est réalisée au stade d'avant projet et permet de réduire des risques majeurs identifiés:
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- Fournir un rapport donnant les hypothèses géotechniques à prendre en compte au stade de l'avant projet, certains principes généraux de construction (notamment terrassements, soutènements, fondations, dispositions générales vis-à-vis des nappes et avoisinants)."
Another example: "Faire une enquête documentaire sur le cadre géotechnique spécifique du site et l'existence d'avoisinants." |
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| | English translation:adjacent properties | Explanation:
It's often used this vague way to refer to ANYTHING nearby: fences, houses, roads, railways, rivers, etc. All these things necessarily belong to some'body', so "property" , in its broadest sense, is one way of addressing it.
Though this is about geotechnics, it doesn't necessarily involve only the subsoil. They refer to excavation and retaining works, for instance, and the effect these might have on groundwater. But excavation and retaining works could affect adjacent properties if soil stability is not guaranteed (any movement might cause the neighbour's house or a road to subside for ex.). Lowering the water table to allow for excavation in the dry could cause subsidence in neighbouring properties, or could affect their water supply if they have a borehole, etc. Drilling holes into the ground offers opportunities for pollution of the groundwater, with subsequent risks if neighbours use that water, etc.
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Un ouvrage géotechnique est toujours un prototype
• Par le contexte géotechnique du site sensible à l’anomalie ponctuelle naturelle ou du fait de l’homme
• Par le contexte de voisinage AVOISINANTS SOUTERRAINS OU EN SURFACE, contraintes urbaines
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L’étude de l’impact sur le voisinage passe par une bonne connaissance du contexte géotechnique au droit de la ZIG, des OUVRAGES AVOISINANTS (STRUCTURE ET CONDITIONS DE FONDATION)
• La limitation de l’impact sur le voisinage passe par la maîtrise des poussières, des bruits, des vibrations, des déformations du terrain, des fluctuations de nappes…
http://www.solscope.fr/pdf/resumer_colloque/SOLSCOPE_2011-1_...
here you have examples of avoisinants, but these are all subsurface, which is only a subset:
Caves, souterrains, constructions sur pieux bois, etc
http://dominiqueatkins.com/BLOG/1010_M2_Marquis.pdf
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| Grading comment many thanks! "neighbouring properties" was also a valid option I fetl
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47 mins confidence:   etc.
Explanation:
'avoisinants' is sometimes used in this way simply to mean 'and similar (topics)'. Most commonly expressed in English as: 'etc.'
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That said, it doesn't fit your second extract from the ST...
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1 hr confidence: adjacent properties
Explanation:
It's often used this vague way to refer to ANYTHING nearby: fences, houses, roads, railways, rivers, etc. All these things necessarily belong to some'body', so "property" , in its broadest sense, is one way of addressing it.
Though this is about geotechnics, it doesn't necessarily involve only the subsoil. They refer to excavation and retaining works, for instance, and the effect these might have on groundwater. But excavation and retaining works could affect adjacent properties if soil stability is not guaranteed (any movement might cause the neighbour's house or a road to subside for ex.). Lowering the water table to allow for excavation in the dry could cause subsidence in neighbouring properties, or could affect their water supply if they have a borehole, etc. Drilling holes into the ground offers opportunities for pollution of the groundwater, with subsequent risks if neighbours use that water, etc.
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Note added at 1 hr (2011-10-05 22:52:09 GMT)
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Un ouvrage géotechnique est toujours un prototype
• Par le contexte géotechnique du site sensible à l’anomalie ponctuelle naturelle ou du fait de l’homme
• Par le contexte de voisinage AVOISINANTS SOUTERRAINS OU EN SURFACE, contraintes urbaines
[...]
L’étude de l’impact sur le voisinage passe par une bonne connaissance du contexte géotechnique au droit de la ZIG, des OUVRAGES AVOISINANTS (STRUCTURE ET CONDITIONS DE FONDATION)
• La limitation de l’impact sur le voisinage passe par la maîtrise des poussières, des bruits, des vibrations, des déformations du terrain, des fluctuations de nappes…
http://www.solscope.fr/pdf/resumer_colloque/SOLSCOPE_2011-1_...
here you have examples of avoisinants, but these are all subsurface, which is only a subset:
Caves, souterrains, constructions sur pieux bois, etc
http://dominiqueatkins.com/BLOG/1010_M2_Marquis.pdf
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| | Grading comment | many thanks! "neighbouring properties" was also a valid option I fetl |
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9 hrs confidence: peer agreement (net): -1 subterranean structures
Explanation:
When doing risk assessment the engineering report may require knowledge of neighbouring subterranean structures
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L’étude de l’impact sur le voisinage passe par une bonne connaissance du contexte géotechnique au droit de la ZIG, des OUVRAGES AVOISINANTS (STRUCTURE ET CONDITIONS DE FONDATION)
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taken from Bourh's link above
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Note added at 1 day4 mins (2011-10-06 21:16:27 GMT)
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When I originally thought about this, subterranean waterways came to mind as I noticed engineers placed these pipes in tall cut away walls and then cement rendered around them.
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