For while basic construction terms may be the same from one project to the next, there will inevitably be reference to purpose-specific requirements demanding their own specialized terminology when dealing with hotels or hospitals, shopping malls or factories. Roads can be concrete or bituminous, or even unsealed. They can range from temporary haulage roads to major motorways. Power stations can be nuclear, fossil-fuelled, or hydro, and in the latter case can be housed in buildings on the surface or in caverns deep underground. The differing risks, constraints, and safety requirements for each structure make design considerations very different.
Dams can be arch, gravity, or embankment dams.
But the techniques concerned can differ radically. And each variation in construction technique implies the introduction of different associated techniques, different plant, etc. Increasingly, large projects like dams and tunnels call for environmental impact assessments, and engineering translators may have to tackle ecological considerations, with discussion of the benefits and damage the project implies for local fauna, flora, and populations and their lifestyle. The scope of the different types of structures the engineering translator may work on is thus daunting. But that is nothing compared to what you face once you start examining the works actually involved in such projects.