Experience:

• 34 years full-time in freelance translation, working almost exclusively in the fields of construction, architecture and real estate and offering an accordingly high level of expertise
• 1990-1997: Freelance translator and terminologist for the Swiss Research Centre for Rationalization in Building and Civil Engineering (CRB), Zurich (publisher of building specification texts, cost planning tools and standards for the Swiss construction industry)
• Since 1997: Provision of language services for a wide range of clients from the construction, architecture and real estate sectors; collaboration with distinguished translation companies with inadequate in-house expertise in these specialist areas

Selected references (2011-2024):

• Swiss Research Centre for Rationalization in Building and Civil Engineering, Zurich, Switzerland
• Fraunhofer Information Center for Planning and Building (IRB), Stuttgart, Germany
• Sopro GmbH, Wiesbaden, Germany
• HOCHTIEF AG, Essen, Germany
• RASCOR Group, Steinmaur, Switzerland
• Lacker AG, Waldachtal-Lützenhardt, Germany
• BESISTA-Betschart GmbH, Bad Boll, Germany
• Kip GmbH, Schlavenhorst, Germany
• p-s-design, Kulmbach, Germany

High-profile projects:

• CSD (Catalogue of Standard Descriptions)/CRB: Project leader, with responsibility for into-English translation, quality control and terminology, on major translation project (building specification texts) lasting several years
• ISO Technical Committee ISO/TC59/SC13/WG2 "Classification of information in the construction industry" (1991-3): Terminologist and CRB representative in ISO Working Group
• POINTER terminology project: Swiss representative on EU-financed POINTER project (Proposals for an Operational Infrastructure for Terminology in Europe), 1995

Book translations:

• ”Maintenance of Historic Buildings – A Practical Handbook” (Jürgen Klemisch, Fraunhofer Information Center for Planning and Building, 2011)
• ”Joint Sealing in Water-Resistant Concrete Structures” (Rainer Hohmann, Fraunhofer Information Center for Planning and Building, 2011)
• "Failure Analysis of Wood and Wood-based Products" (Dr. Dirk Lukowsky, Fraunhofer Institute for Wood Research (WKI), for publication in 2014)
• "Sopro Technical Guide" (Sopro GmbH, 2007) – 350-page design manual for use of building chemical products produced by Sopro GmbH
• "Eco-Logical Construction Practice" (CRB/Zurich University of Applied Sciences Winterthur, 2000) – design manual for ecologically minded and cost-conscious clients

Memberships:

• German Association of Interpreters and Translators (BDÜ)

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