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Construction contract

Design contract

Measure and value contract

Flood control

Operational check

Control of reservoir sedimentation

Monitoring the performance of (drainage system, grout curtain)

Detonating fuse; primacord

Hornfels

Roller bits

Body of dam; mass of dam (Am.)

Test sample

Floating debris; floating material; trash (Am.)

Return current; back current

Turbidity current

Power cut

Geological profile; geological cross-section

Grout cut off; grout curtain

Core wall

Diaphragm

Elevation of top of dam; elevation of dam crest

Sink hole

Driving (of piles)

Dam crest; top of dam; crown of dam

Sill (crest of spillway)

Safety criteria

Bank storage; ground storage

Steam curing

Concrete curing

Water spraying of concrete

Watercourse

Intermittent stream; ephemeral stream

Reach forming a boundary (between two countries)

Area-volume curve (against height); area-capacity curve

Depth-area curve; height-area curve

Depth-volume curve; height-volume curve

Calibration curve

Contour line; contour

Mass flow curve; cumulative flow curve; mass curve; summation curve; integrated

Density/moisture content curve

Grading curve; particle size distribution curve; grain size distribution curve

Flow rating curve; stage-discharge curve

Shell curves; hill curves

Coyote blasting (Am.)

Muffling; deep blasting

Shooting; blasting; pop shooting

Controlled blasting; directional blasting

Blaster; exploder

Firing; initiating

Day of maximum demand

Maximum aggregate size

Optimum sizing of supply works

Fall in water level

Dike; dyke (Am.); levee (Am.)

Flood embankment; levee (Am.); flood bank

Flood wall

Strike; trend

No English equivalent (project design and construction supervision)

Site supervision

General arrangement of works; layout of works

Arrangement

Waterstop; water bar; sealing strip

Energy dissipation

Energy dissipator

Focal distance

Buttress spacing; distance between buttress centres

Laser distantiometer

Distortion

Distribution of rainfall (monthly)

Wandering (of a river)

Division of liability

Watershed; divide (Am.)

Pressure relief pipes

Ecologist; environmentalist

Power economy (the economics of energy usage)

Economics of water usage

Powerhouse building

Scale effect

Bulk effect

Effects of dams on environment

Isoparametric element

In operation; in service

Near completion

Basement; bottom; substratum

Soft loan; low interest loan

Buoyancy

Active earth pressure

Hydraulic thrust

Passive earth pressure

Flood discharge statistical

Flood discharge hydrometeorological method

Flood discharge theoretical

Construction flood; diversion flood

To fill

Filling (action)

To order

Artificial abutment; abutment block

Gravity abutment (not in common use)

Rock abutment

Abutment

Slope (of a hill or mountain)

Secondary energy; non firm energy; secondary power (GWh)

Potential energy

Engineering

Engineer

Consulting engineer; consultant

Hand placed rockfill; hand placed riprap (Am.)

Selected rockfill

Compacted rockfill

Random rockfill (as placed in the works); quarry run rock (as it comes from the

Coursed rockfill; bedded rockfill (Am.)

Bulk rockfill; dumped rockfill

Washed rockfill

Uncompacted rockfill; loose rockfill

Accelerated test

Accelerated weathering test

Jacking test

Large flat jack test; LFJ test

Unconfined compression test

Wetting and drying test

Hardness test

Accelerated ageing test

Standard penetration test (SPT)

Stank; partial bulkhead

Overflow cofferdam

Incorporated cofferdam

Dimensional equations

Contour interval

Limiting equilibrium

Plant; heavy equipment

Hired plant; hired equipment (Am.)

Transportation plant; hauling equipment

Distantiometer (electro-optical distance measuring equipment)

Hydromechanical equipment

Dismantling equipment

Water equivalent (of snow)

Erodibility

Degradation (of bed)

Internal erosion; piping

Retrogressive erosion

Scale of aerial photograph

Excavation in open cut

Excavation in bulk; general excavation

Underwater excavation

Cost and delivery period

FOB (Free On Board) price

Ex-works price

Prices effective at (a given time)

Unit prices

Fault gouge (material); infilling material

Prefabrication

Presplitting

Indirect loss or damage

Maximum loss

Adverse effects; nuisances

Bonus

Preparation of lift joint surface

Glass fibre (or fibreglass)

Physiography (geomorphology, climatology, etc.)

Crack; fissure

Cracking

Crack gage

Deflection; bending; flexural deflection

Flocculation

Floc

Creep

Cutback (volatile diluent)

Buoyancy

Fluctuation (of water level)

Out of use; out of order

Formwork (’shuttering’ no longer in common use); form (Am.)

Mould

Shape of reservoir basin

Sliding formwork; slip form (Am.)

Travelling formwork

Karstic formation

Packing (formation of continuous ice cover)

Supply and installation; supply and erection

Borehole; percussion hole

Mine chamber; coyote hole

Grout hole

Blast hole

Split spacing (between grout holes)

Fuse-plug (dike, spillway)

Busbar gallery; busbar tunnel

Grout cell; grout compartment; grouting gallery

Transformer hall; transformer gallery

Diversion aqueducts

Overflowing; overtopping

Gammagraphic examination

Bar hooked at one end

Frazil; frazil ice (Am.)

Frazil slush; slush of frazil

Fine screen; fine rack (Am.)

Coarse screen; coarse rack (Am.)

Screen; trashrack (Am.)

Hydraulic gradient

Large dam

Magnitude

Grading; particle (grain) size distribution

Continuous grading

Gap grading

Degree of consolidation

Unofficial strike; wildcat strike (Am.)

Unit undergoing maintenance

Unit undergoing repair

Spare unit; standby unit

Lorry-mounted tower crane

Tracked crane; crawler crane

Assumption; hypothesis

Setting out (of the works)

Inauguration

Economic impact (of environmental factors)

Slope

Downstream slope

Batter (sometimes wrongly termed ’slope’)

Inclined

Inclinometer; tiltmeter

Air entraining agent

Compensation; indemnity

Compensation for temporary land occupation

Density index (formerly relative density)

Liquidity index

Plasticity index

Void ratio (ratio of the volume of voids to the volume of solids)

Infiltration

Initial set

Asphalt grouting (of rockfill)

Packer grouting

Joint grouting

Anchor grouting

Consolidation grouting

Contact grouting

Pressure grouting (for watertightness)

Cavity grouting; backfill grouting

Dissolved oxygen content; dissolved oxygen concentration

Moisture content (concrete)

Water content (soil) (formerly moisture content)

Embankment; earth or rockfill platform

Earthquake; seism

Foundation of dam

Impervious soil

Original ground; ground surface

Pervious (impervious) soil (ground)

Loose soil

Centrifuge test

X-ray examination

Drill core (sample); test core sample

Surface texture

Till

Draft; draught; head

Ground anchor; rock anchor; tendon

High level intake

Streambed intake

Low level intake

Intake with automatic flushing

Controlled inlet

Intake

Vent; orifice; opening

Multi-level drawoff tower

Drawoff tower; intake tower (Am.)

Workability

Additional works

Site investigation; site exploration

Ski jump; flip bucket

Equipment for placing concrete by compressed air

Belt conveyor

Sediment transport; solids transport

Bed load transport

Suspended load transport

Data processing

Foundation treatment

Tractor

Wheeled dozer; turnadozer

Global positioning system (GPS)

Vent pipe; air duct; air vent

Feed pipe

Return pipe

Draft tube, suction tube (pipe)

Piezometer tube

Sleeve pipe

Perforated tube

Stand pipe piezometer

Tufa (from a calcareous spring)

steel lined tunnel, armoured tunnel

To turbine under a head of...

Peat; loam

Survey team

Shift (two or three shift working)

Humidity

Surface moisture

Run-of-river power station; power station with daily or weekly storage

Power station with annual storage

Locally controlled power station

Remotely controlled power station

Base load power station; base load plant (Am.)

Peak load power station; peaking plant (Am.)

Unattended remotely controlled power station

New plant

Power stations in cascade

Series of power stations; chain of powerplants (Am.)

Wear

Usefulness of a project

Use

Development; exploitation (e.g. water resources, tidal power)

Ditcher; trench excavator

Present worth

Eigenvalue; natural frequency

Discounted value

Wedge gate valve; sluice valve

Butterfly valve

Needle valve

Pressure relief valve

Bypass valve

Mushroom valve; open chamber needle valve

Drain valve; scour valve; wash-out valve

Self-closing valve

Jet flow gate

Hollow jet valve; hollow core valve (Am.)

Silt trap scour gate

Sand trap scour gate

Guard gate; guard valve

Air valve (for release of air)

Automatic regulating gate; automatic regulating valve

Service valve

Howell-Bunger valve

Rotary valve; sphere valve

Pressure reducing valve

Bay

Span

Water vapour

Variation of rainfall (monthly, yearly)

Varve (fine cyclic lake deposit)

Inflow

Yearly flow; daily flow

Limiting discharge (minimum discharge at which bed movement begins)

Intercepted flow (m3/s)

Groundwater flow

Drain discharge

Outflow

Specific yield (l/s/km2)

Flow expressed as a ratio of mean flow

Influenced flow

Instantaneous flow

Maximum utilizable flow

Mean flow

Gauged flow

Natural flow

Rated flow (turbine or pump)

Firm discharge; guaranteed flow; dependable discharge

Sediment inflow; sediment yield

Suspended sediment load; suspended load; suspended sediment (Am.)

Bed load; bed load sediment (Am.)

Total sediment load; total solids load

Flow; discharge; yield

Waterstop; water bar; Sealing strip

Vena contracta

Tracked vehicles; crawler vehicles

Air valve (to permit entry of air)

Underwater inspection

Instrumentation (of something)

Constructional plant; construction plant; construction facilities

Controlled release facilities

To install stoplogs; to lower stoplogs into place

Operating instructions

Flood gate operating instructions

Instructions to tenderers

Apparatus; instrumentation

Joint gauge; joint meter (Am.)

Strain gauge; strain meter

Economic worth of a project

Interface

Interference

Interpretation of results

Inventory of water resources

Inventory study

Inverted

Foundation exploration; foundation investigation

Soil investigation

Geophysical investigation

Surface flooding irrigation

Slip joint; dismantling flange; sliding flange

Expansion joint

Isolation joint

Cold joint

Peripherical joint; perimetric joint; perimeter joint

Interest during construction

Interest on overdue payments

Downstream

Loop

Lake

Lake for recreational purposes

Slab

Bassin invert

Bentonite-cement grout

Bentonite slurry

Slimes

Aerated nappe

Nappe with insufficient aeration

Nappe

Free-falling nappe; free-falling jet

Jumbo boom

Placing of fill

Placing of concrete; pouring concrete; concreting

Underwater placing

Width of dam

Top width, crest width

River channel with steep banks

Stable channel; stable bed

Flood plain

Streambed; river bed; main channel

Bedrock

Reading of piezometers

Artesian aquifer

Groundwater; water table; aquifer (saturated zone below groundwater level)

Ice lens

Aerial photographic survey

Survey of the land conditions

Topographic survey

To measure the dimensions

Excavation line; base of the excavation

Atterberg limits

Telemetering water level indicator

Water level recorder

Water level indicator; staff gauge

Rake (for cleaning a screen); trashrack cleaning machine

Springing line (of intrados or extrados)

Flow line; streamline

Line of seepage; seepage path

Setting out line

Narrow gauge railway

Energy line; energy grade line (EGL) (Am.)

Equipotential line

Piezometric line; hydraulic grade line (HGL) (Am.); pressure grade line (PGL)

Breeding ground; breeding place

Jack

Embankment, fill

Shoulder (upstream or downstream); shell (Am.), fill

Front embankment

Side embankment

Rock mass

Strong motion seismograph

Maximum credible earthquake (MCE)

Pressure gauge; pressure meter; manometer

Routine maintenance

Routine overhaul; preventive maintenance

Manpower; labour force

Inundation map

Architectural model

TBM Tunnel Boring Machine; shield, tunneling machine

Boundary marker; boundary monument

Tsunami; seismically generated sea wave

Air drill; jackhammer

Added mass

Cementitious material

Density (of solid particles)

Density (of soil) (formerly bulk density; wet density)

Density of saturated soil

Density of dry soil (formerly dry density)

Tunnel spoil, tunnel muck

Erodible material

Excavated material

Granular material

Cohesionless material

Non-woven material

Screenings

Mobile equipment

Woven material; woven fabric

Knitted material

New plant; new equipment (Am.)

Probable maximum flood (PMF) (in American usage, distinction is made

Largest recorded flood

Collapse mechanism; failure mechanism

To make a snow survey

Seepage measurement

Deformation measurement

Joint measurement; crack opening measurement

Stress and pressure measurement

Flow gauging; flow measurement

Differential measurement

Displacement measurement

Contract measurement and payment

Initial measurement

Payment line

Float measurement

Chemical flow gauging

Earthquake measurement

Actual quantities; measured quantities

Settlement device, settlement gauge

Chemical control methods

Arch-cantilever method

Austrian tunnelling method

Finite difference method

Slices method (slope stability)

Initial stress method

Alignment method

Analysis method

Downstream method of construction

Upstream method of construction

Centreline method of construction

Finite element method

Trial load method

Incremental method

Hydrometeorological method

Probabilistic design method

Open-graded bituminous concrete

Dense-graded bituminous concrete

Cold premix; bituminous cold mix

Rainfall-runoff model

Distorted model

Fixed-bed model

Mobile-bed model; movable-bed model

Small scale physical model

Climatic modification

Topographical change

Shear modulus

Deformation modulus

Modulus of elasticity; elastic modulus; Young’s modulus

Fineness modulus

Modulus of subgrade reaction

Watering; sprinkling (for earth-works)

Shifting of the bed; shifting of the main channel

Penalty

Training wall; guide wall

No English equivalent (a cut off wall extending for an appreciable distance into

Toe wall; foot wall (Am.)

Wave wall

Watermilfoil

At the planning stage

At the design stage

Pier nose

Springing

Springing of extrados

Springing of intrados

Phreatic surface; water table; groundwater level

Water level

Tailwater level

Maximum flood water level

Headwater level

Priming level

Reservoir level

River stage; river level

Price level

Retention water level; top water level; normal top water level; full supply level;

Minimum operating level; top of inactive storage (Am.)

Piezometric elevation (level)

Grader

Levelling

Nodal point; node (arches and cantilevers)

Name of dam

Puddle clay core

Core; impervious core; impervious zone (inclined, vertical)

Number of sets; number of units

Outlet works

Sealing works

Substantial completion

Fish facility (Am.)

Completion

Works

Ancillary works; appurtenant works

Associated works (bridge, access road, etc.)

Supply works (Am.)

Storage facilities

Diversion works

Storage facilities and collecting works

No English equivalent

Monitoring survey

To make a closed traverse survey

To choke water intakes; to obstruct water intakes

Reflux valve; non return valve

Flap (on a radial gate)

Flap valve

Flap gate

Tilting gate; oscillating flashboard

Packer

Automatic tilting gate

Inflatable packer

Flood wave

Shear wave

Rejection surge (induced by rapid closure of a power canal)

Surface wave

Reflected wave

Seismic wave; shock wave

Solitary wave

Swell (long period)

Operation at part load

Operation at full load

Reservoir operation

Surveyor (using a surveying instrument); instrument man (Am.)

Earthmoving plant operator

Plant operator

Instruction to commence work; notice to proceed (Am.)

Project organization; jobsite organization

Magazine (bunker) for explosives

Protected area

Landscaping

Pallet

Pot hole (in the rock bed of a river); swallow hole

Stereo pair

Thermo-couple

Stoppage for yearly overhaul

One layer asphaltic facing

Multiple layer asphaltic facing

Sloping upstream face

Face

Parapet wall; parapet

Fish pass; fishway (Am.)

Decking

Cement paste

Vibrating pad

Paving machine; slope paving machine; facing machine

Toe of dam; downstream toe of dam

Heel of dam (concrete dams); upstream toe of dam (others)

Direct pendulum; plumb line

Percentage of storage

Steady; seepage

Underseepage

Seepage; leakage

Loss on ignition (cement)

Borehole log; drillhole log

Grace period; exemption period

Growing season

Recurrence interval; recurrence period; return period

Driest period

Dry spell

Wet spell; rainy period

Permeability to water

Permeameter

Perspective drawing; artist’s impression

Grippers

Dead load; dead weight (Am.); self weight

Unit weight (of solid particles)

Unit weight (of soil)

Unit weight of saturated soil (formerly saturated unit weight)

Unit weight of dry soil (formerly dry unit weight)

Unit weight of submerged soil (formerly buoyant unit weight)

Dam warden

Operational site staff

Local staff

Temporary workers; casual workers

Open standpipe; piezometer

Porous tip piezometer

Datum point; reference point

Spillway pier

Survey marker; survey monument

Pile fill

Piping

Slope stake; slope peg

Floor

Hollow block flooring

Contingency plan; emergency preparedness plan

Monitoring survey scheme

Datum point; reference point; fixed control point

Design directive drawing for civil works

Incline; inclined slope

No English equivalent (drawing showing excavation work)

Location map of monitoring points

Parcels plan

Map (scale less than 1/5 000)

Plan; topographical plan

Sowing grass seed

Turfing

Plasticizer, plasticizing admixture

Recording rain gauge; rainfall recorder

Rainfall recorder chart

Telemetering rain gauge

Closed traverse survey plan

Overhead travelling crane

Flume

Abrading tool

Culvert

Lowest point of foundation

Monitoring point

Monitoring point for level

Datum point; reference point

Points to be monitored

Porosity (ratio of the volume of voids to the total volume)

Manhole

Staff man; rodman (Am.)

Gantry crane

Head mast; headtower (Am.)

Tail mast; tailtower (Am.)

Screen cleaning machine; trashrack rake gantry (Am.); trashrack cleaning machine

Travelling gantry

Setting (deep, shallow)

Flow gauging station

Stream (flow) gauging station

Hydrometric station; stream gauging station

Rain gauge station; rain gauge

Rain gauging station

Potamology

System peak load (MW)

Firm capacity; firm power; dependable capability (MW)

Firm peak capability (MW)

Installed capacity (power station)

Maximum output (one hour)

Peak load (MW)

Maximum input capacity (MW)

Maximum output capacity (MW)

Rated capacity (machine)

Delivery period (equipment)

Time for completion (civil works)

Rainfall; precipitation

Snowfall

Average rainfall

CIF (Cost Insurance Freight) price

Concrete cover to reinforcement

Reconnaissance of a site

Land reclamation

Core recovery

Control network

Vertical control network

Horizontal control network

Welded steel fabric

Monitoring network

Land drainage network

Finger drains; strip drains

Flow net; flow pattern

Irrigation network

Seepage pattern

Flood prediction system

River network; stream drainage pattern (Am.)

Water reducing agent

Marker (any object used to indicate a position, e.g. boundary marker, flood

Temporary bench mark

Triangulation survey station

Geodetic survey station

Survey point; survey station

Global coordinates

Local coordinates

Afforestation

Strengthening of a dam

Telemetry; telemetering

Staff gauge; depth gauge

Cause and effect relationship

Progress report

Feasibility report

Final report

Draft report; inception report: preliminary report

Provisional report; interim report

Road or railway diversion; road or railroad relocation (Am.)

Contractor’s sub-agent

Termination (of contract)

Game preserve; area preserve for hunting and shooting

Pumped storage reservoir

Direct supply reservoir

Storage reservoir; conservation reservoir

Headwaters reservoir

Compensation reservoir

Afterbay reservoir; re-regulating reservoir

Multipurpose reservoir

Regulating reservoir

Year-to-year reservoir

Afterbay reservoir

Secondary weirs and intakes

Hilltop reservoir

Reservoir surrounded by embankments (or dikes)

Uppermost reservoir

Reservoir for low flow augmentation

Flood control reservoir

Reservoir for power generation

Secondary reservoir and connecting aqueduct

Underground reservoir

Upper or lower reservoir (pumped storage scheme)

Basin; pool; reservoir (pumped storage scheme); pond

Reservoirs in cascade

Artificial cooling

Embedded pipe cooling

Flexural (or bending) strength

Penetration resistance

Splitting tensile strength (Brazilian test)

Impact strength

Shear strength

Bursting resistance

Resistance to damage during overtopping

Crushing strength

Puncturing resistance; punching resistance

Tearing resistance

Seismic resistance

Earthquake resistance (of works)

Hydrodynamic response

Modal response; dynamic response (Am.)

Hydraulic jump; standing wave

Outlet

Irrigation water outlet works

Compensation water outlet works

Plotting

Set retarder; retarding admixture

To draw off; to withdraw; to abstract water

Backhoe shovel; backacter

Backhoe loader

Re-use of excavated material

Lining (of canal, tunnel, shaft, etc.)

Tunnel steel lining (armouring); tunnel support

Seismic risk; seismic hazard

Igneous rock; magmatic rock

Metamorphic rock

Plutonic rock

Unaltered rock; sound rock

Pneumatic-tyred roller

Flat wheel roller

Flat drum roller

Trailer type roller; towed roller

Articulated roller

Vibrating roller; vibratory roller

Concrete breaker; concrete splitter

Break up (of ice)

Progressive failure

Rock quality designation (RQD) (total percentage of pieces of drill core within a

Roughness

Rough

Bearing

Failure of dam; collapse of dam

Tailbay; afterbay

Foundation slab; foundation footing

Gutter

Scraper

Drought

Sluice section (part of a structure containing sluices)

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