SCROLL SECTION WIRE

SCROLL Cartouche; Crosse; Marche en volute

Drawing; Construction

The framed part on a drawing in which appear the names of the main contractor, designer, auditor, and owner, as well as the scale, the name of the project and the possible modifications given before or under execution. Syn. with TITLE BLOCK; TITLE PANEL
The hook-shaped part located at the extremity of the top handrail of a guardrail. Syn. with MONKEY TAIL
The starting step of a staircase prolonged in arc of circle around the start of the handrail. Syn. with TREAD; VOLUTE

SCUPPER Dalot

Civil Engineering Structure

Syn. with BOX CULVERT; WATER CHANNEL; WATER DUCT

SEA WORM Pelouse

Defects (Building Materials)

A white woodworm which attacks the heartwood and that only lives in clean seawater.

SEAL Imprimer

Painting

To cover a substrate with a first coat of paint.

SEAL Etancher; Etanch ifier; Joint d' tanch it ; Dispositif d' tanch it

Tightness

Syn. with STANCH; STOP; STOP A LEAK
Syn. with MAKE IMPERVIOUS
Syn. with GASKET; WATER BAR: WATER STOP
Syn. with TIGHTNESS DEVICE

SEALED CONCRETE B ton verni

Building Materials

A material having undergone a cure by application of a curing membrane (thermosetting resin) on its facing in order to decrease the harmful effects of the shrinkage, due to a too-fast evaporation of the combined water in the beginning of the hardening phase.

SEALED POROSITY Porosit ferm e

Building Materials

The ratio of the volume of closed pores to the apparent volume of the product, rated in percentage.

SEALING Etanchement; Garniture; Calfeutrage; Calfeutrement

Tightness; Materials; Construction

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