This dictionary containing 2,845 entries from "3D snapping" to "zotheca" (in english) and from "a cuatro aguas" to "zoom vistas proyecto" (in spanish), is a great reference tool and a priceless addition for every engineer, architect, constructor, designer, student and anyone with an interest in construction.
A comprehensive english-spanish and spanish-english index permits the reader to locate any important term in the dictionary.
This book consisted of gathering essential construction terms in english and equivalent meanings in spanish from various sources, during one decade, since 1999 when I started to translate english text books for spanish speaking profesionals and students of architecture and engineering. I had to reference many textbooks to more fully understand the meaning of a term and then to compose a concise yet accurate translation to spanish lenguage.
It covers new industry terms which have emerged due to changes in engineering and building technologies, materials, and terminology coined by people in forums, bloggs, software, manuals and technical reference documents.
The 2,845 terms have been organized in groups of 50 entries each one, identified by the first and last word of the group; the "content" of the dictionary has 57 group "identifiers" that allow the reader to access directly to any group. At the end of the group there are two links to return to the spanish-english or to the english-spanish content. It makes this e-book "fully browseable".
This dictionary is of the most trusted reference and offers the most comprehensive coverage of construction terms available.
In a time of globalization of communications, it is important to interact with professionals and students in the same discipline; hispanic market of hundreds of millions of participants (Spain in Europe and from Mexico to Argentina in America), can not longer be ignored.
A comprehensive english-spanish and spanish-english index permits the reader to locate any important term in the dictionary.
This book consisted of gathering essential construction terms in english and equivalent meanings in spanish from various sources, during one decade, since 1999 when I started to translate english text books for spanish speaking profesionals and students of architecture and engineering. I had to reference many textbooks to more fully understand the meaning of a term and then to compose a concise yet accurate translation to spanish lenguage.
It covers new industry terms which have emerged due to changes in engineering and building technologies, materials, and terminology coined by people in forums, bloggs, software, manuals and technical reference documents.
The 2,845 terms have been organized in groups of 50 entries each one, identified by the first and last word of the group; the "content" of the dictionary has 57 group "identifiers" that allow the reader to access directly to any group. At the end of the group there are two links to return to the spanish-english or to the english-spanish content. It makes this e-book "fully browseable".
This dictionary is of the most trusted reference and offers the most comprehensive coverage of construction terms available.
In a time of globalization of communications, it is important to interact with professionals and students in the same discipline; hispanic market of hundreds of millions of participants (Spain in Europe and from Mexico to Argentina in America), can not longer be ignored.
