English-French translations for construction

• construction
  La construction est déjà terminée. Construction is already complete.
  Cette construction a deux conditions: This construction has two requirements:
  La construction de l'Europe ne s'achèvera jamais. The construction of Europe never finishes.
• bâtiment
  L'industrie du bâtiment est le troisième domaine important. A third important area is the construction industry.
  Le secteur du bâtiment offre un fort potentiel d'économies d'énergie. The construction sector offers great potential for energy savings.
  La recherche dans le secteur du bâtiment s'oriente vers une approche plus écologique de la construction. Research in the construction sector is moving towards a greener approach to building.
• érection
  La fabrication, la construction, le transport et l'érection d'éoliennes nécessite déjà beaucoup d'énergie. There is a great deal of embedded energy in the fabrication, construction, transportation and erection of wind turbines.
• immeuble
  Dès à présent, nous disposons déjà, par exemple, des nouvelles technologies de construction nécessaires pour édifier des immeubles qui, au lieu de consommer de l'énergie, en produisent. For example, we already have available to us right now the construction technology necessary to construct buildings which do not consume energy, but, on the contrary, produce it.
• ouvrage
  Nous avons posé des questions à maintes reprises sur cette question car des ouvrages réalisés il y a deux ou trois ans sont totalement dégradés. We have put questions on this matter on several occasions, since construction work carried out two or three years ago are now in very poor shape.
  Très concrètement, est-ce que cela signifie que nous devons par exemple penser au tunnel qui est en construction au Danemark et limitera-t-on les exigences plus strictes à ce type d'ouvrages? Does that mean quite specifically that we must think for example of the tunnel under construction in Denmark and that it will be restricted to that kind of tunnels?

Definition of construction

• The process of constructing
• Anything that has been constructed
• The trade of building structures
• A building, model or some other structure
• A structure, such as a collage etc
• The manner in which something is built
• A group of words arranged to form a meaningful phrase
• The meaning or interpretation of a text, action etc.; the way something is viewed by an observer or onlooker
• A geometric figure of arcs and line segments that is drawable with a straightedge and compass

Examples

• Construction is underway on the new bridge.
• The engineer marvelled at his construction.
• He had worked in construction all his life.
• The office was a construction of steel and glass.
• "Construction in string and clockwork" took first prize.
• A thing of simple construction.
• American conservatives tend to favor strict construction of the Constitution.

Related words

• constructive
• constructively
• deconstruction
• reconstruction
• constructivism
• constructivist
• reconstructive
• constructional
• constructiveness