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Tech/Engineering - Construction / Civil Engineering / Building | | Spanish term or phrase: encaballada | In a book about roofs from Spain for translation to British English.
The specific building in this case is the "Polideportivo de Blanes". This is a modern "nave"-type building with a series of courts, etc inside and a lattice-type roof structure.
Not that mush to go on, the "encaballadas" only appear twice, but are "big":
"Desde este punto de vista se ha considerado conveniente que los elementos estructurales verticales y las grandes *** encaballadas *** se conviertan en los esquemas vertebrados del espacio interno del Pabellón; de este modo, se cree que se llega a una perfecta integración entre usos funcionales y optimización estructural y constructiva."
"Todos los cordones (superior e inferior) de las encaballadas son perfiles laminados HEA o IPE para optimizar el material empleado, a excepción de donde era necesario tensionar." |
| | | Truss (roof truss) | Explanation:
This is literal from Catalan, where cercha (Spanish) > encavallada (but the "v" sounds awful in Spanish, hence they changed it to a "b" instead of looking up the dictionary for the proper Spanish word). |
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