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Grade level

English translation: level of the ground around a building

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English term or phrase:Grade level
Selected answer:level of the ground around a building
Entered by: Peter Simon

05:53 Jun 15, 2016
English language (monolingual) [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Construction / Civil Engineering / construction of a nuclear plant
English term or phrase: Grade level
Before it was excavated, the site’s elevation was approximately 35 m, and the elevation at the top of the cliffs was approximately 30 m. Since TEPCO selected grade levels of 10 m for the block of Units 1 to 4 and 13 m for the Unit 5 and 6 block, significant excavation was required, as shown in Fig. 1.2–6. The reasons for selecting grade levels of 10 m and 13 m are described in the section on ‘Geology’ below and are further discussed in Technical Volume 2, Section 2.1.

Units refer to nuclear units
Masoud Kakouli Varnousfaderani
Türkiye
Local time: 00:33
level of the ground around a building
Explanation:
or "The level of the surface of the ground after the cut and fill process has been completed" in The Free Dictionary, or grade: "The ground elevation or level, contemplated or existing, at the outside walls of a building, or elsewhere on the building site"
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Peter Simon
Netherlands
Local time: 23:33
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4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



SUMMARY OF ALL EXPLANATIONS PROVIDED
4 +9level of the ground around a building
Peter Simon
4 +1Planum
Teresa Reinhardt
Summary of reference entries provided
Problems due to poor definitions of "grade level"
B D Finch

  

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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +9
grade level
level of the ground around a building


Explanation:
or "The level of the surface of the ground after the cut and fill process has been completed" in The Free Dictionary, or grade: "The ground elevation or level, contemplated or existing, at the outside walls of a building, or elsewhere on the building site"


    Reference: http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/grade+level
    Reference: http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/grade
Peter Simon
Netherlands
Local time: 23:33
Native speaker of: Native in HungarianHungarian
PRO pts in category: 12
Notes to answerer
Asker: Thanks everyone! Yes, I am asking a series of question about Fukushima accident back in 2011!


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Terry Richards: Yes, relative to sea level or some other arbitrary zero level. They had to dig down from 30/35m to 10/13m which is a lot of digging!
11 mins
  -> Thanks, I guess that's the idea
agree  Yasutomo Kanazawa
26 mins
  -> Thank you!
agree  Didier Fourcot: Zero level on plans, understood as reference levels here. In "normal" buildings, is more or less related to the ground level before, here there is earth moving before construction, so this is the reference chosen for the finished ground level
46 mins
  -> Probably. Thanks!
agree  Tony M: Given the location of the Fukushima plant, it looks as if this may indeed be ASL (above sea level) / Yes, Asker has been asking a whole series of questions about Fukushima.
50 mins
  -> Thanks. But we can't be sure of this location.
agree  Yvonne Gallagher
2 hrs
  -> Thank you, Gallagy!
agree  Ashutosh Mitra
3 hrs
  -> Thank you!
agree  Jörgen Slet: Re: location: All asker's questions have been about the same Fukushima document, www-pub.iaea.org/MTCD/Publications/PDF/AdditionalVolumes/P1710/Pub1710-TV1-Web.pdf
6 hrs
  -> Thanks
agree  acetran
1 day 3 hrs
  -> Thank you!
agree  B D Finch: Note that you must distinguish between rough grade level and finished grade level. In EN-GB that would be "finished ground level". Levels are, as far as I'm aware, ALWAYS relative to the standardised sea level for the country in question.
1 day 4 hrs
  -> Thank you!
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22 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
grade level
Planum


Explanation:
THis is the technical term; plase ggole for verification

Teresa Reinhardt
United States
Local time: 14:33
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in GermanGerman, Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 4

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  acetran
6 hrs
neutral  B D Finch: Perhaps you would care to post your "verification", because I believe that you are wrong.
8 hrs
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Reference comments


1 day 7 hrs
Reference: Problems due to poor definitions of "grade level"

Reference information:
It appears that US definitions of grade level are not standardised in the same way as in the UK, which sets a datum point on site relative to ASL and all levels e.g. finished ground and floor levels and roof heights are measured from that datum point. The US method of measurement cited below ran into problems of developers cheating by earth-moving and had to be redefined according to this document.

'The Louisville Municipal Code (LMC) prescribes a maximum building height in all zone districts in the City. Section 17.08.045 of the LMC defines height as “the vertical distance measured from grade to the highest point on the roof surface.” Grade is defined in Section 17.08.205 of the LMC as “the average of the finished grade surface
elevation measured at the highest and lowest exterior corners of a structure.”'


    Reference: http://goo.gl/TRakQ5
B D Finch
France
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 40
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