Triacom: Tour

Parking

6 – Triacom. This is it. Parking is never a problem here. Park your car and come on up!

Entrance

This is the front door. Welcome in.

Hall

We are now in the hall and are looking around a bit.

Office tract

This way to our offices. The door in the middle of the picture leads into Per’s office.

Thor

A view of the translation workstation, Thor. (All workstations are named after Nordic gods.) This is where much of our in-office translation work is done. And this is where most of the dictionaries are. Much is available online or on CD or DVD this these days, but some paper volumes are still indispensable, even if books are heavy and have no search function beyond our thumbs.

Little helpers

Lots of useful little technical helpers. Such as a smartphone called Svea, a lean but mean subnotebook called Nanna and a pad called Saga. They have already traveled far and wide with us.

Bragi

Our workstations are multipurpose workstations, but Bragi is used mostly for communications and administration, for project management and accounting, and for layout and Internet work.

Paper reserve

Our offices continue the vivid contrast between the cool and elegant black-and-white theme of the building and the warm but clear Nordic lines of the furniture and other beechwood details. The number of paper folders is rather limited. Paper has a short half-life at Triacom.

Meeting room

Also a convenient place to “park” material for larger projects, or to work on things that would be in the way in the individual offices. The shelves fill up at a frightening pace. We have no idea where all those books keep coming from. In the back: part of the private library in the sunroom. Smaller seminars (up to 5–6 participants) are also held here.

Sunroom

Here in the sunroom (with yet more books, of course) it is easy to take a break or to read up on something. On the right you can see that our offices are air-conditions. Not really common in Germany, yet, but: sweaty brains can’t think properly.

Patio

On warm days we can sit on the terrace. And work there, with a bit of self-discipline; WiFi coverage is good enough.

Yard view

It can be very peaceful and idyllic around here. A good place to collect one’s thoughts.

Winter impression

We don’t get a lot of snow in this area. But when we do, things can look rather dramatic. This is a view from the sunroom (!) adjoining the meeting room.

Books

Some of the books translated by Triacom.

Operations room

We are very happy to have this separate operations room. It lets us keep most of those annoying ‘fffff’ and ‘Zzzzz’ sounds away from where we work. This is where our server, Odin, resides, where our color printer and printercopierscannerfaxer (Johannes Gutenberg, who introduced printing to Europe in the 15th century, should have seen these little boxes!), PBX, WiFi router and other equipment are located, and where most of our supplies are stored. This room also doubles as the mail room.

Freja

This is Thea’s office. (Also home of Freja, Thea’s mobile workstation.) This is the room where Thea thinks up strategies, advises clients, translates, ruminates over texts and proposals, organizes seminars and events – and talks on the phone – sometimes for hours on end. Communications is everything in our business.

Side entrance

The two rooms of the guest suite – sitting room/office (shown) and bedroom – should be comfortable even for longer stays. Of course you have your own bathroom. TV, WiFi/LAN, phone, extra keyboard and mouse, and a HDMI link to hook up your notebook to your large screen – everything is there.

Guest suite: living room/office