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Top 5 Terms
1 Deck - a brief presentation pack or a silde-show used as a short briefing document.
2
 DEG - a Design Engineering Guide, produced to define standard designs/specifications to ensure consistency across different projects.

 
3 Nacelle - the housing that sits on top of the tower in a wind turbine to contain the generating components, gear box, drive train, controller and brake.
4 BSRIA - The Building Services Research and Information Association. BSRIA is a test, instrumentation, research and consultancy organisation that provides specialist services in construction and building services.
5 CBR test – the California bearing ratio (CBR) test is used to evaluate the load-bearing capacity of soils and base courses that can assist in optimising the design of roads and hard paved areas. It was developed by the California Department of Transportation, hence the name.