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Toitures végétabilitées

English translation: green roofs

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French term or phrase:Toitures végétabilitées
English translation:green roofs
Entered by: Rebecca Lowery

19:28 Feb 6, 2007
French to English translations [PRO]
Real Estate
French term or phrase: Toitures végétabilitées
In some real estate specifications for a project, talking about the description of a building. The sentences before mention false ceilings, lifts, lighting etc. Could this be a vegetable roof-top garden??

Any other ideas welcome!
Rebecca Lowery
United Kingdom
Local time: 04:56
green roofs
Explanation:
The word I found is végétabilisées. The mention of “thermal inertia” led me to the term “green roof”:

Les toitures sont végétabilisées (inertie thermique). Calendrier. Démolition: mars/mai 2004. Construction: juin 2004 … février 2005 ...
www.mairie-versailles.fr/upl_report/2201/cha101203.pdf

Modern green roof technology is the result of advanced material research in Europe over the past 35 years. Green roofs are thin layers of living plants that are installed on top of conventional roofs. Using strict design standards, green roofs duplicate many of the same processes found in nature. As in nature green roofs help control storm water runoff, improve water quality, reduce erosion as well as pollution in the environment.
www.ucollege.utoledo.edu/ced/CCI website/EACT Database/Smar...


Re-design of coverings using the technique of green roofs to improve the buildings’ thermal inertia and to increase the system cooling potential during the ...
linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0038092X00001006



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Note added at 1 hr (2007-02-06 21:05:48 GMT)
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"toitures végétalisées" gives far more Google hits.

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Note added at 1 hr (2007-02-06 21:15:55 GMT)
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Il est pourtant possible de les ‘verdir’ avec les toitures végétalisées, encore appelées ... Alors que les toitures végétalisées sont moins rectilignes, ...www.travaux.com/dossier/toiture/index.php?dossier=38&articl...

Le principe de la toiture végétale (aussi : toit vert ou toit végétalisé) est de recouvrir de verdure un toit plat ou à versant de faible pente. C'est une caractéristique architecturale fréquente d'un bâtiment durable, une version architecturale de la philosophie du développement durable.
Dans la perspective de restauration de la biodiversité en milieu urbain, l’aménagement d’un écotoit est une technique qui peut se révéler intéressante.
fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toit_vert


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Note added at 1 hr (2007-02-06 21:19:40 GMT)
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www.greenroofs.com





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Note added at 2 hrs (2007-02-06 22:11:28 GMT)
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The word "végétabilitées" still looks strange to me, and this is partly because "végétabilité" exists as a noun.
Selected response from:

Dylan Edwards
United Kingdom
Local time: 04:56
Grading comment
Thanks to every one - especially to Dylan for your very comprehensive research!!
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4 +2greening ready
Odette Grille (X)
5 +1Rooftop Vegetable Garden
Maria Luisa Duarte
3 +3green roofs
Dylan Edwards
4ecoroof
Bourth (X)
3see comment
Miranda Joubioux (X)


Discussion entries: 2





  

Answers


30 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
greening ready


Explanation:
capable of sustaining a gardern, but not necessarily already planted


May be garden ready -

Odette Grille (X)
Canada
Local time: 23:56
Native speaker of: French

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Paul Hirsh: sounds like a word made up of vegetal and habilité, so this is what it must mean
1 hr
  -> Merci
agree  Bourth (X): That's certainly a good possibility, if the word is indeed correct or at the very least used deliberately.
5 hrs
  -> C'est la mode et qui s'en plaindrait ? Merci
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30 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +1
Rooftop Vegetable Garden


Explanation:
AGRICULTURE REPORT - Building a Rooftop Vegetable Garden - 2004-09-21- [ Traduzca esta página ]AGRICULTURE REPORT - Building a Rooftop Vegetable Garden ... We are going to describe one way to build a rooftop garden that does not even require soil. ...
www.voanews.com/specialenglish/archive/2004-09/a-2004-09-21... - 37k - En caché - Páginas similares

Open Directory - Home: Gardening: Gardens: Rooftop- [ Traduzca esta página ]Building a Rooftop Vegetable Garden - Guide to building a simple ... ELCA: History of Rooftop Gardening - Chicago vegetable garden started in 1993. ...
dmoz.org/Home/Gardening/Gardens/Rooftop/ - 9k


Maria Luisa Duarte
Spain
Local time: 05:56
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 23

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  narasimha (X): IT ia a roof top garden
11 hrs
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
see comment


Explanation:
The likelihood of this being a rooftop vegetable garden seems to be slim, particularly if this is a list of property features.
However, I believe that it may refer to the capacity of the rooftops to be made into garden rooftops. In other words, they are in an unplanted state. Does this make any sense?

A rooftop vegetable garden would more likely be referred to as "toiture jardin potager"
cf http://ecohabitation.com/guide/toits_vegetaux/index.php


Miranda Joubioux (X)
Local time: 05:56
Works in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 16
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +3
green roofs


Explanation:
The word I found is végétabilisées. The mention of “thermal inertia” led me to the term “green roof”:

Les toitures sont végétabilisées (inertie thermique). Calendrier. Démolition: mars/mai 2004. Construction: juin 2004 … février 2005 ...
www.mairie-versailles.fr/upl_report/2201/cha101203.pdf

Modern green roof technology is the result of advanced material research in Europe over the past 35 years. Green roofs are thin layers of living plants that are installed on top of conventional roofs. Using strict design standards, green roofs duplicate many of the same processes found in nature. As in nature green roofs help control storm water runoff, improve water quality, reduce erosion as well as pollution in the environment.
www.ucollege.utoledo.edu/ced/CCI website/EACT Database/Smar...


Re-design of coverings using the technique of green roofs to improve the buildings’ thermal inertia and to increase the system cooling potential during the ...
linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0038092X00001006



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Note added at 1 hr (2007-02-06 21:05:48 GMT)
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"toitures végétalisées" gives far more Google hits.

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Note added at 1 hr (2007-02-06 21:15:55 GMT)
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Il est pourtant possible de les ‘verdir’ avec les toitures végétalisées, encore appelées ... Alors que les toitures végétalisées sont moins rectilignes, ...www.travaux.com/dossier/toiture/index.php?dossier=38&articl...

Le principe de la toiture végétale (aussi : toit vert ou toit végétalisé) est de recouvrir de verdure un toit plat ou à versant de faible pente. C'est une caractéristique architecturale fréquente d'un bâtiment durable, une version architecturale de la philosophie du développement durable.
Dans la perspective de restauration de la biodiversité en milieu urbain, l’aménagement d’un écotoit est une technique qui peut se révéler intéressante.
fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toit_vert


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Note added at 1 hr (2007-02-06 21:19:40 GMT)
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www.greenroofs.com





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Note added at 2 hrs (2007-02-06 22:11:28 GMT)
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The word "végétabilitées" still looks strange to me, and this is partly because "végétabilité" exists as a noun.

Dylan Edwards
United Kingdom
Local time: 04:56
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 8
Grading comment
Thanks to every one - especially to Dylan for your very comprehensive research!!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Rachel Fell: haven't looked into the term(s), but it sounds like it means this
18 mins
  -> Thanks. I'd like to find out more about "toitures végétalisées", which looks like the corrrect term - unless there's a distinction in meaning!
agree  Raymonde Gagnier: green roof ready...
6 hrs
  -> Thank you. greenable/ready to be greened, maybe, but generally I'd stay in this "green roof" area of meaning.
agree  alec_in_France: sounds good to me
11 hrs
  -> Thank you.
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5 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
ecoroof


Explanation:
That's my preferred term for "toiture végétalisée", at least, but other terms are used: green roof, turf roof, sedum roof, etc. Run a ProZ Term Search on "toiture végétalisée". It has been asked before, and once quite recently too.

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Note added at 14 hrs (2007-02-07 10:17:31 GMT) Post-grading
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On further reflection, I wonder if the term is not used consciously, to say that the roof is designed in accordance with the possibility of installing an ecoroof (which presupposes a certain strength and waterproofing, not to mention special root-penetration barriers, etc.) but that the actual plants and/or earth are not part of the package (extra over, possibly to be provided by a specialist contractor). Does your text possibly hint at this?

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Note added at 14 hrs (2007-02-07 10:18:24 GMT) Post-grading
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Something like "eco-capable roof"?

Bourth (X)
Local time: 05:56
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 388
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