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COMMUNICATION VERTICALE [2 records]

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Record 1 2009-02-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Communication and Information Management
  • Federal Administration
CONT

We are leaving behind a public service where jobs were based primarily on repetive, well-defined tasks and predictable activities and where vertical, top-down communications approaches were the norm.

OBS

Term usually used in the plural.

Key term(s)
  • vertical communications

French

Domaine(s)
  • Gestion des communications et de l'information
  • Administration fédérale
OBS

Terme habituellement utilisé au pluriel.

Key term(s)
  • communications verticales

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Gestión de las comunicaciones y la información
  • Administración federal
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Record 2 1989-03-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Residential Architecture
  • Underground Planning (Urban Studies)
DEF

the movement of people and goods between floors of multistory buildings.

OBS

Vertical circulation systems may be divided into two classes. Class I systems are intended for movement of both people and goods and include ramps, stairs, escalators, and elevators. Class II systems, including dumbwaiters and vertical conveyors, in contrast, may not be used for movement of people.

OBS

Circulation, as usually applied in architecture, is the movement of people and goods between interior spaces in buildings and to entrances and exits. ... circulation may be channeled through any of several different types of passageways, such as lobbies, corridors, ramps, stairways and elevator hoistways.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Architecture d'habitation
  • Aménagement souterrain (Urbanisme)
CONT

(...) on préfère les buildings, dont les bases sont compactes, les communications verticales assurées par des ascenseurs doublés d'escaliers, aux immeubles se développant sur une grande surface (...)

CONT

Les circulations verticales seront assurées, comme en surface, par le moyen d'escaliers roulants, rampes, tapis inclinés roulants, ascenseurs, monte-charge, pater-noster, etc.

Spanish

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