Construction and trades

Qualifications and workforce documents

Employers and agencies send Turkish trade certificates — ustalık, kalfalık and MYK certificates — engineering diplomas, employment contracts and references, and training records for plant and equipment. A Turkish engineering degree that will be used for professional recognition usually needs a UK ENIC comparison as well as a translation; the route is on professional regulators.

Safety documents are the priority

Method statements, risk assessments, permits to work, toolbox talks and site inductions translated into Turkish are the most consequential thing we do in this sector, and they are treated accordingly: literal, unambiguous, with instructions kept as instructions and warnings kept as warnings. Where a UK term has no Turkish counterpart — a specific certification scheme, a named standard — we keep the English and explain it rather than substituting a Turkish term that means something else on a Turkish site. If a source sentence is unclear in English, we ask; a safety document is the wrong place to guess at intent.

Materials and technical files

Products bought from Turkish manufacturers arrive with declarations of performance, test reports, installation instructions and warranty terms. These go into English, with units, standard references and product codes preserved exactly and a glossary held across the file so the same component keeps one name from the specification to the installation guide. Contracts, subcontractor agreements and payment schedules move in both directions, and are handled as technical or commercial work rather than as certificates. Where a material is being specified for a UK project, we keep the standard numbers and the manufacturer’s own designations exactly as printed.

Working with contractors

Main contractors and labour providers set a rate and a turnaround terms we agree with you in writing before the first job, with invoicing to the company, project references on each job and monthly billing where useful. Turkish into English starts at £10.00 per 1,000-character page with certification included and no UK VAT charged; English into Turkish is from £6.50. A trade certificate is a single page at £10.00; a twenty-page method statement into Turkish is roughly £130 depending on density; a full technical file for a product range is quoted from the documents. Urgent site work is possible at a surcharge, but safety-critical text is never rushed past its second reading.