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Do you mean circulation as in air-flow? Or circulation as in traffic? I don't know about German but French speakers will often use circulation for traffic beca

• morelisp 5y ago
  I suspect in this case it's a false friend - ironically one of the major problems blocking the opening of the airport was actually zero (air) circulation. Several engineering and electronics companies, led by the German giants Siemens and Bosch, struggled to retain control over the complex fire protection system that included 3,000 fire doors, 65,000 sprinklers, thousands of smoke detectors, a labyrinth of smoke evacuation ducts, and the equivalent of 55 miles of cables. “Our part, the detection of hot air or smoke ... is functioning,” says Thilo Resenhoeft, a Bosch spokesman. “The responsibility for the dysfunction lies with somebody else.” Siemens spokesman Oliver Santen confirms that the company was originally responsible for building the “automated fire protection facility” and “the control unit for fresh-air circulation.” Testing in 2013 “showed the need for reworking part of the system,” he says. Santen declines to attribute responsibility other than to say that Siemens is “responsible for the reconstruction of the fresh-air circulation system.” https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2015-07-23/how-berlin-s-futuristic-airport-became-a-6-billion-embarrassment https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2015-07-23/how-berli... (The issue was not fixed until 2019. Quite disappointed, we didn't even get a Murder Horse out of it.)
• xcambar 5y ago
  As in traffic. And yes, I'm French. Damned, I am démasqué.