Constructed in 1939, with additional modifications completed in the 1960s, a three-story concrete building in Houston's Midtown was not structurally designed for expansion. In 2017, Rice ...

A man suffered minor injuries when a 6-inch thick concrete slab came crashing down on top of him while he was taking a shower just before 9 p.m. Wednesday.

For a roof of 1,350 square feet, typically, Kirby said, a concrete slab that size would weigh 405,000 pounds. The Cobiax system displaced 77,000 pounds of that weight.

Structural plans from 1979 show that the Champlain Towers South Condo was built using a “flat slab” style of construction in which concrete slabs reinforced by steel rebar sit directly on top ...

U.S. Army Corp. of Engineers' researchers, leading a team that recently completed the 3D printing of 9.5-ft-tall reinforced concrete walls for a 32-ft x 16-ft barracks, are setting their sights on ...

Concrete has been around for millennia, but now, engineers at ETH Zurich have developed a more efficient method for building with the material, erecting an ultra-thin, curved prototype roof that ...

The FORTA-FERRO macro-synthetic fiber was used in a very large slab on metal deck project in Middleton, Del., that provided a working surface for the 2nd-level order fulfillment operations for the ...

A man was crushed Wednesday morning when a concrete slab weighing 30,000 to 40,000 pounds fell on him at a construction site for an apartment complex in Southeast Austin. Emergency crews responded … ...

Philadelphia police say that a 30-year-old woman was walking on this sidewalk when she was hit in her head by a concrete slab. We want to warn you, some of the details may be disturbing.