DEAR TIM: My new home is under construction. I’m in a disagreement with my builder about what’s going to happen under my garage slab. Right now there’s a trench around the inside on all four walls ...

The average concrete slab in a New York City building is 8 inches thick and weighs thousands of pounds. Adding new floors to an older building then means potentially stacking multiple tons of new ...

Most slabs-on-ground are unreinforced or nominally reinforced for crack-width control. When positioned in the upper or top portion of the slab thickness, steel reinforcement limits the widths of ...

MATT Construction is utilizing an innovative new slab technology called BubbleDeck, which replaces a significant percentage of a slab’s concrete mass with hollow or foam-filled plastic balls, made ...

The concrete slab can be thought of as the wearing cap for the building pad and base course. A well compacted and smooth subgrade is critical to a successful slab. Slab formwork, jointing details, ...