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German to English translations [PRO] Tech/Engineering - Construction / Civil Engineering / Drawings and approval documents
German term or phrase:Raumnummer
This term is commonly used in building construction projects. It refers not necessarily to a specific room (with four walls & a door) but to an area of a building. The English term 'room number' is often used as a translation but is confusing, because the expectation of an English reader is that the term refers to a single room, not an area.
Anyone have experience with a specific term in English that conveys this meaning and would be immediately understood by people in this field?
The complexity of the main building made it necessary to use room numbers with a different structural mode than in other University buildings. This is owing to the so-called building elements, in German "Bauteil", (see outline below). http://www.uni-koeln.de/uni/gebaeude/raumnummern.e.html
In this case the building number is added to the room number
To find your way inside the building, the room numbers give you direction. The first digit of the number denotes the floor, and the letter refers to North, South, East (Ost) and West. E.g., for O-3160 take the elevator to the third floor and look out for the sign showing your way to the eastern part of the building. https://www.fb1.uni-bremen.de/service/anreise/
• Die Räume mit der Bezeichnung 58-xxx befinden sich an der Tellstrasse 2. Von der Universität sind es ca. 10-15 Minuten Fussweg.
• The rooms with the designations 58-xxx are in Tellstrasse 2, about 10-15 minutes’ walk from the University. https://www.google.de/search?safe=active&noj=1&biw=998&bih=6...
Room numbers may consist of three digits, but can be any number of digits. The room number is generally assigned with the first digit indicating the floor on which the room is located. For example, room 412 would be on the fourth floor of the building; room 540 would be on the fifth floor. Buildings that have more than nine floors will have four digits assigned to rooms beyond the ninth floor. For example, room 1412 would be on the 14th floor
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A letter may appear before the numbers to indicate a particular building or wing. For example, Room D149 is a room in D building. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_number
Building Numbering
The Office of Capital Planning and Space Management is responsible for assigning all building numbers. These numbers are always three digits (leading zeroes included) followed by an optional alphabetic suffix. Generally, the following numbering ranges are used:
000 – 200: Institute-owned or controlled buildings
300 – 399: Non-Institute controlled buildings; also areas or structures which are not buildings but which appear on the campus map
800 – 899: Leased buildings
Building numbers with an alpha suffix are usually associated with the non-suffixed building number. These are frequently additions to the original building, or other smaller buildings that service the main building. In the case of leased facilities, these may also simply indicate buildings near each other or in the same general location. https://www.google.de/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd...
On the room schedule or room data each space , whether a self-contained space or not not. So for example a long continuous circulation area or staircase on the ground floor will be RG01 etc. For the purposes of the schedule they are all rooms. SO you can stick with room number. Bauteil is always problematic sometimes you end up saying 'building element' but really these are windows, floors, columns, stairs. You really need to see the plans to know whether it is a block, wing, pavilion, pod etc or just Building A, B, C.
Well, I guess you're stuck with room number here as 90+ percent of the mentioned Räume are ordinary rooms needing a number which is - at the same time - the (main) door number for this room. Terms such as area and the like will be even more misleading. When the 'people in this field' have read the definition of room they will know what room can actually refer to.
Die Raumnummern und Flächen haben einen großen Stellenwert bei ***** AG. Viele Programme und Dokumente beziehen sich darauf. Entsprechend groß sind die Anforderungen an die Raumnummerierung und die Erzeugung der Raumstempel. Im Verlauf des Projektes sind Raumnummern und Ersatzraumnummer mit richtlinienkonformen Daten regelmäßig bei *** abzufordern.
Die Vergabe der Raumnummern obliegt ***.
// Raumnummernvergabe //
Jeder Raum oder Teilraum erhält eine eigene Raumnummer, unabhängig davon, ob dieser allseitig durch Wände geschlossen ist oder nicht. Diese Nummer ist auch gleichzeitig die Ersatzraumnummer.
The complexity of the main building made it necessary to use room numbers with a different structural mode than in other University buildings. This is owing to the so-called building elements, in German "Bauteil", (see outline below). http://www.uni-koeln.de/uni/gebaeude/raumnummern.e.html
In this case the building number is added to the room number
To find your way inside the building, the room numbers give you direction. The first digit of the number denotes the floor, and the letter refers to North, South, East (Ost) and West. E.g., for O-3160 take the elevator to the third floor and look out for the sign showing your way to the eastern part of the building. https://www.fb1.uni-bremen.de/service/anreise/
• Die Räume mit der Bezeichnung 58-xxx befinden sich an der Tellstrasse 2. Von der Universität sind es ca. 10-15 Minuten Fussweg.
• The rooms with the designations 58-xxx are in Tellstrasse 2, about 10-15 minutes’ walk from the University. https://www.google.de/search?safe=active&noj=1&biw=998&bih=6...
Room numbers may consist of three digits, but can be any number of digits. The room number is generally assigned with the first digit indicating the floor on which the room is located. For example, room 412 would be on the fourth floor of the building; room 540 would be on the fifth floor. Buildings that have more than nine floors will have four digits assigned to rooms beyond the ninth floor. For example, room 1412 would be on the 14th floor
:
A letter may appear before the numbers to indicate a particular building or wing. For example, Room D149 is a room in D building. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_number
Building Numbering
The Office of Capital Planning and Space Management is responsible for assigning all building numbers. These numbers are always three digits (leading zeroes included) followed by an optional alphabetic suffix. Generally, the following numbering ranges are used:
000 – 200: Institute-owned or controlled buildings
300 – 399: Non-Institute controlled buildings; also areas or structures which are not buildings but which appear on the campus map
800 – 899: Leased buildings
Building numbers with an alpha suffix are usually associated with the non-suffixed building number. These are frequently additions to the original building, or other smaller buildings that service the main building. In the case of leased facilities, these may also simply indicate buildings near each other or in the same general location. https://www.google.de/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd...
Johannes Gleim Local time: 08:14 Works in field Native speaker of: German PRO pts in category: 279
