B D Finch Feb 25, 2013:

@Jenny I am sure that your colleague architects and engineers are not responsible for any mistranslations that slipped through! There is always the danger that a technical translation might read perfectly well in the target language, but contain translation errors.

Jenny Dequick Feb 25, 2013:

@Domaikia In this case, I would like to give Domaikia an additional "agree" but the platform system does not allow me to.

Jenny Dequick Feb 25, 2013:

At B D Finch Thanks for the technical information. All manuals were written by (American) engineers too but maybe there have misunderstood. I'll also inform my own colleague architects and engineers, who have been managing large-scale industrial construction projects successfully over 25 years....

B D Finch Feb 25, 2013:

@Jenny Dequick I fear the US army would seem to have been provided some mistranslations! A manhole is, as Chris commented on your answer, large enough for a man to go down. The cover is also not vertical, (note correction: insertion of previously omitted word "cover", as the hole itself is, of course, generally vertical - the point being that a "regard" can have any orientation), as that would be a hatch. I base this, not just on translation experience, but on over ten years managing construction projects in collaboration with many different firms of architects, surveyors and engineers.

You are also not quite correct in stating "The concrete (beton) part is called "manhole cone". The cone is the top part where it is angled to widen from the surface opening to a larger diameter below. Much of the concrete used in constructing manholes does not form part of the cone and many manholes do not have cones.

Pablo Strauss (asker) Feb 21, 2013:

Sorry about that Here's most of the sentence (the rest wouldn't help)
qui ont repris l’idée pour d’autres applications : inspection de regards, de bennes, de silos, de dépoussiéreurs, etc..

philgoddard Feb 21, 2013:

Could we have the French context please I'm not clear what the sentence says or what purpose is served by the "de"s.