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English translation: ceiling recess

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13:12 Nov 23, 2009

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Tech/Engineering - Architecture

German term or phrase: Deckenversatz

Zur schnellen Regelbarkeit der einzelnen Büroräume wurde in jedem Büro vor der Fassade ein Deckenversatz in die Betondecke geschalt. In diesem Versatz wurde ein Kühl-/Heiz-Deckenelement als Ventilatorkonvektor deckenbündig eingebaut.

Context: article about a new heating pump system in an office building.

jackiekiefer

English translation:ceiling recess

Explanation:
is a possibility, though I can't really picture it

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gangels
Local time: 11:14

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Step in the floor/ceiling slab

Peter Craggs

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ceiling recess

gangels

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ceiling recess

Explanation:
is a possibility, though I can't really picture it

gangels
Local time: 11:14
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Native speaker of:

English,

German
PRO pts in category: 45

Grading comment

Many thanks to you both.

44 mins confidence:

Step in the floor/ceiling slab

Explanation:
Step, or change in levels. In a way it is a recess, but this suggests that after a width of a few cm the floor / ceiling goes back to what is was before the recess. Here, against the facade, it probably doesn't. "Decken" refers to the floor if you are looking down on it, or ceiling if you are looking up, but German doesn't make this distinction; I usually translate this as floor (or floor slab if it is concrete).

Peter Craggs
Germany
Local time: 19:14
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English
PRO pts in category: 24

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