Buildings, cities and energy

What holds these lists together

The same subject at three distances: the single building, the street in front of it, and the pipes and cables that supply both. The lists belong together because their words turn up in the same kinds of text — the local paper, the planning notice, the purchase deed — and because they share one difficulty: almost every noun names a step in a procedure rather than a thing. La réception des travaux is no reception but the formal acceptance of the work, from which the builder’s guarantees begin to run; la concertation is the public consultation a project has to go through. Both are moments at which something happens in law.

For example: le terrain à bâtir (the building plot), l’urbanisme (town planning), la production d’électricité (the generation of electricity)

Spread across the levels

The category runs across the levels — it is an area, not a difficulty. If you practise it, you can also choose a level at the top of the practice page and then get only the part that sits there.