Oct 12, 2006 13:22
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French term
France
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Native in: English (Variant: British)
Works in: French to English
constructeur en diffus
French to English
Tech/Engineering
Construction / Civil Engineering
"Les constructeurs de maison individuelles en diffus (logements individuels purs) représentent plus de 184 000 constructions sur les 12 derniers mois"
OR
"Un marché national des constructeurs en diffus qui se concentre"
Any suggestions much appreciated!
OR
"Un marché national des constructeurs en diffus qui se concentre"
Any suggestions much appreciated!
Proposed translations
(English)
Proposed translations
55 mins
Martin Cassell
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
Native in English
United Kingdom
25 years as a specialist communicator
Native in: English (Variant: UK)
Works in: French to English
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8
Selected
single-build / one-off
A French trade body footnotes the term "en diffus" thus:
1) Une maison en " diffus " est réalisée à l'initiative d'un particulier. Elle ne s'inscrit pas dans le cadre d'un programme immobilier, par exemple.
(along the lines that Jonathan was suggesting.)
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or perhaps just "individual", allowing the one target term to cover the two source terms?
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afterthought -- perhaps also "bespoke", though you may feel that that is emphasising the wrong aspect: would depend on wider context.
1) Une maison en " diffus " est réalisée à l'initiative d'un particulier. Elle ne s'inscrit pas dans le cadre d'un programme immobilier, par exemple.
(along the lines that Jonathan was suggesting.)
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Note added at 57 mins (2006-10-12 14:20:31 GMT)
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or perhaps just "individual", allowing the one target term to cover the two source terms?
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afterthought -- perhaps also "bespoke", though you may feel that that is emphasising the wrong aspect: would depend on wider context.
4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "One of those cases where you'd like to be able to share points as everyone helped point me in the right direction. But as "single-build" was the term we decided on with the client, then I'll have to award them to Martin ! Thanks a million to everyone who helped, and especially to Bourth and all the time he spent!"
18 mins
Jonathan MacKerron
Native in English
Retired as of Jan 2019!
Native in: English
Works in: German to English, French to English
Related KudoZ points
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41
non-attached houses
what I have been able to garner from a bit of googling
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more likely "free-standing houses"
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"houses built outside of subdivisions"
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more likely "free-standing houses"
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"houses built outside of subdivisions"
54 mins
spread-out, "one-off" housing,
builder of, officers, for the use of. Sah!
1 hr
quotes
For some reason I'm not able to repost comments under my previous answer. I've only been trying for about 30 minutes! See if this works.
*Construction en diffus* refers to housing that is "one-off", not concentrated in subdivisions/estates. The costs are obviously different since builders cannot have large quantities delivered to just one site for the construction of a whole lot of pokey little ticky-tacky houses on their little plots … Also, each "diffus" house is likely to be quite different.
La construction en diffus (hors. lotissement ou ZAC) devrait donc rester majoritaire. ...
www.adil.org/56/images/images/PDF/TAB Morbihan 2004.pdf
supérieure à la construction en diffus (taille moyenne des terrains de l’ordre de 5.000 m²). Néanmoins,. cette moyenne cache des disparités puisque la ...
www.infolot.net/Lot_ES_05/demographie.pdf
La Bretagne est une terre de construction en diffus où
les accédants à la propriété veulent pouvoir faire le tour
de leur maison par le jardin. Ainsi, l’espace est mité
par des lotissements en grappes, qui viennent se greffer
autour des communes. Mais les collectivités locales
réfléchissent maintenant à des solutions plus économes
en foncier, même s’il est encore généreux dans nos
régions. Dans cet esprit, un habitat groupé permet de
réaliser des maisons sur des terrains de 250 à 300 m²,
avec une densité globale de 0,5, ce qui est plutôt élevé
pour de la maison individuelle.
rp.urbanisme.equipement.gouv.fr/puca/agenda/colloque_vud_2005.pdf
Spread-out housing yields higher transport volumes and higher share of car traffic than the more dense alternatives. With ?Spread-out? ...
www.toi.no/article18176-29.html
Promoting a project to residents, and the practicalities of a door-to-door recycling collection, can be easier in a block than on a more spread out housing ...
www.towerblocks.org.uk/html_report/Appendix1.htm
Here you'll find the spread out housing of most cities, fringed with housing perched perilously on cliff tops that can only be accessed by cable car. more ...
www.aatravel.co.nz/about-newzealand/editorial.php?pagename=...
[traditionally each NZ house sits on a quarter or a fifth of an acre]
high costs to extend infrastructure to spread-out housing. Although many people think of two-. acre zoning as preserving “open space,” it does so only in ...
www.nmcog.org/pdf/Chapter 11 Housing.pdf
Even "spread-out housing" appears to be used for subdivisions/estates, only where the plots are larger, or where the estates themselves are set well apart, from each other and from towns. Maybe "one-off" construction would be better.
The Relationship between Urban Sprawl and One-off Housing ... Separated from villages and towns, one-off housing has come to describe development which is ... The construction of one-off housing in the countryside (for people working in urban areas) is the most graphic manifestation of urban sprawl. In a country with a growing proportion of low-density accommodation the prevalence of one-off housing suggests a wholesale system failure
www.antaisce.org/campaigns/antaisce_articles/One-off Housin...
The one-off housing debate ignited in April 2001 when the Department of the ... Attempts to curb one-off housing date to a 1976 study by An Foras Forbartha. ...
www.antaisce.org/resources/docs.html?id=747
Typically, this means that anyone planning to build one-off housing or, in some cases, ... The first was to limit one-off housing in the countryside, ...
archives.tcm.ie/businesspost/2003/08/24/story65380765.asp
The decision on one-off housing will cost us a fortune in the years ahead. A lot of the coverage has focused on the possibility that some of our natural beauty spots will be tarnished by bungalows. For this column, bungalow blight is not the issue.
http://www.davidmcwilliams.ie/Articles/view.asp?CategoryID=-...
OOne-off housing is a term used in The Republic of Ireland to refer to isolated, rural dwellings in open countryside. There is currently much debate about the desirability of this type of development
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-off_housing
THAT'S WHY ALL THE HITS I WAS GETTING WERE IRISH! Top o' the moRnin' t' yerall!
*Construction en diffus* refers to housing that is "one-off", not concentrated in subdivisions/estates. The costs are obviously different since builders cannot have large quantities delivered to just one site for the construction of a whole lot of pokey little ticky-tacky houses on their little plots … Also, each "diffus" house is likely to be quite different.
La construction en diffus (hors. lotissement ou ZAC) devrait donc rester majoritaire. ...
www.adil.org/56/images/images/PDF/TAB Morbihan 2004.pdf
supérieure à la construction en diffus (taille moyenne des terrains de l’ordre de 5.000 m²). Néanmoins,. cette moyenne cache des disparités puisque la ...
www.infolot.net/Lot_ES_05/demographie.pdf
La Bretagne est une terre de construction en diffus où
les accédants à la propriété veulent pouvoir faire le tour
de leur maison par le jardin. Ainsi, l’espace est mité
par des lotissements en grappes, qui viennent se greffer
autour des communes. Mais les collectivités locales
réfléchissent maintenant à des solutions plus économes
en foncier, même s’il est encore généreux dans nos
régions. Dans cet esprit, un habitat groupé permet de
réaliser des maisons sur des terrains de 250 à 300 m²,
avec une densité globale de 0,5, ce qui est plutôt élevé
pour de la maison individuelle.
rp.urbanisme.equipement.gouv.fr/puca/agenda/colloque_vud_2005.pdf
Spread-out housing yields higher transport volumes and higher share of car traffic than the more dense alternatives. With ?Spread-out? ...
www.toi.no/article18176-29.html
Promoting a project to residents, and the practicalities of a door-to-door recycling collection, can be easier in a block than on a more spread out housing ...
www.towerblocks.org.uk/html_report/Appendix1.htm
Here you'll find the spread out housing of most cities, fringed with housing perched perilously on cliff tops that can only be accessed by cable car. more ...
www.aatravel.co.nz/about-newzealand/editorial.php?pagename=...
[traditionally each NZ house sits on a quarter or a fifth of an acre]
high costs to extend infrastructure to spread-out housing. Although many people think of two-. acre zoning as preserving “open space,” it does so only in ...
www.nmcog.org/pdf/Chapter 11 Housing.pdf
Even "spread-out housing" appears to be used for subdivisions/estates, only where the plots are larger, or where the estates themselves are set well apart, from each other and from towns. Maybe "one-off" construction would be better.
The Relationship between Urban Sprawl and One-off Housing ... Separated from villages and towns, one-off housing has come to describe development which is ... The construction of one-off housing in the countryside (for people working in urban areas) is the most graphic manifestation of urban sprawl. In a country with a growing proportion of low-density accommodation the prevalence of one-off housing suggests a wholesale system failure
www.antaisce.org/campaigns/antaisce_articles/One-off Housin...
The one-off housing debate ignited in April 2001 when the Department of the ... Attempts to curb one-off housing date to a 1976 study by An Foras Forbartha. ...
www.antaisce.org/resources/docs.html?id=747
Typically, this means that anyone planning to build one-off housing or, in some cases, ... The first was to limit one-off housing in the countryside, ...
archives.tcm.ie/businesspost/2003/08/24/story65380765.asp
The decision on one-off housing will cost us a fortune in the years ahead. A lot of the coverage has focused on the possibility that some of our natural beauty spots will be tarnished by bungalows. For this column, bungalow blight is not the issue.
http://www.davidmcwilliams.ie/Articles/view.asp?CategoryID=-...
OOne-off housing is a term used in The Republic of Ireland to refer to isolated, rural dwellings in open countryside. There is currently much debate about the desirability of this type of development
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-off_housing
THAT'S WHY ALL THE HITS I WAS GETTING WERE IRISH! Top o' the moRnin' t' yerall!
3 hrs
asptech
Specializes in field
builder of detached houses / bungalows
one family dwellings
10 hrs
Charlie Bavington
Native in English
Hassle-free translations for busy people
Native in: English 
Works in: French to English
Related KudoZ points
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32
individual houses (not part of a housing development)
This is not exactly entirely my own work, having had no idea what "en diffus" meant until 2 minutes ago :-)
But I'm suggesting this answer as a combined solution to both the question asked and the bit in brackets, becos the explanation I propose thus explains exactly what you mean by "individual".
In a way, it reverses the order of the original French, since "en diffus" is more a less a term for "not part of a wider housing development scheme". But I think it works :-)
But I'm suggesting this answer as a combined solution to both the question asked and the bit in brackets, becos the explanation I propose thus explains exactly what you mean by "individual".
In a way, it reverses the order of the original French, since "en diffus" is more a less a term for "not part of a wider housing development scheme". But I think it works :-)
2 days 6 hrs
(private) non-project homes
Hello,
These are individual homes which are not part of a housing project, whether large-scale or small-scale. This is the idea.
"Non-project" works fine; it would be understand that each housing unit was not part of a housing development project.
Also, non-projects homes can be suited for all social classes. For example, individual townhouse developments will often target middle-class people.
en diffus = beyond a housing development project
I hope this helps.
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I think "private" is optional as "non-project" clearly implies that the homes were privately built (not part of a housing development project)
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Note added at 2 days6 hrs (2006-10-14 19:38:11 GMT)
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The idea is not that they are just individual homes. Please know that.
These are individual homes which are not part of a housing project, whether large-scale or small-scale. This is the idea.
"Non-project" works fine; it would be understand that each housing unit was not part of a housing development project.
Also, non-projects homes can be suited for all social classes. For example, individual townhouse developments will often target middle-class people.
en diffus = beyond a housing development project
I hope this helps.
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Note added at 2 days6 hrs (2006-10-14 19:30:08 GMT)
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I think "private" is optional as "non-project" clearly implies that the homes were privately built (not part of a housing development project)
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Note added at 2 days6 hrs (2006-10-14 19:38:11 GMT)
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The idea is not that they are just individual homes. Please know that.
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